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WeDrive: Garmin Dezl OTR810 truck navigator

Truck navigation is tricky for drivers because semitrailers are long and heavy and it takes a 40-acre field to turn around sometimes. And bridges aren’t our best friends.

Drivers are warned of low clearances, non-truck routes, weighted highways and areas that are not truck accessible. Given live traffic updates, including road closures, and current weather conditions, truck drivers are able to choose their routes accordingly.

Truck navigation is such a preventative tool every mile.

I have been a...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/wedrive-garmin-dezl-otr810-truck-navigator

Route planning tool helps drivers overcome daily frustrations

High driver turnover is an issue almost everyone in the logistics industry is familiar with, if not grappling with, as drivers jump between carriers in pursuit of better opportunities.

Drivers leave jobs for a variety of reasons — to receive a sign-on bonus or pay raise at a different trucking company, to seek routes closer to home, to find better management or even to change professions.

Trucker Path has been giving truck drivers tools since 2013 to make navigating life on the road more...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/route-planning-tool-helps-drivers-overcome-daily-frustrations

Next-gen simulator to help Singapore develop next-gen skillsets

How do you train seafarers who won’t necessarily go to sea, but will manage vessels remotely from shore? Singapore’s Center of Excellence in Maritime Safety (CEMS) aims to do just that — and more — with the help of a next-generation navigational simulator from Wärtsilä Voyage. The simulation platform will be based on the Wärtsilä NTPRO (Navi-Trainer Professional 5000) Navigational Simulator in a shore-based operational configuration.

CEMS is a collaboration between the Singapore Maritime...

https://www.marinelog.com/legal-safety/shipping/next-gen-simulator-to-help-singapore-develop-next-gen-skillsets/

171 Hans Hederström, Consultant, Marine Consultancy Group

Meet Mr Maritime Simulator himself and learn all about Bridge Resource Management, BRM

People don’t like change. Famous words of the interviewee in this episode, Hans Hederström, Consultant, Marine Consultancy Group.

Listen to Captain Hederström and the impact he has had on the development of maritime safety and especially Bridge resource management. We get to hear the story of how the Center for Simulator Maritime Training, CSMART, in Almere, the Netherlands, came about and how that was a dream...

https://shippingpodcast.com/171-hans-hederstrom-consultant-marine-consultancy-group/

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