News & Information for the Professional Driver Association (PDA)
The Road User Charging Conference 2018
The Road User Charging Conference 2018 will take place on the 7th & 8th March in Brussels, Belgium. We have speakers from across the globe coming together to discuss all things Road User Charging.
With a great agenda full of great topics including the future of Road User Charging, environmental concerns, case studies from the USA, updates from Netherlands, Norway, Belgium and the EU, it is a great chance for you to learn from our excellent speakers and network with over 200 of your peers.
Digital Transport Days Declaration
A range of public and private partners from all transport sectors met in Tallinn to discuss the digitalisation of transport from 8-10/11/2017 and concluded:
The European Union is stepping up efforts to improve military mobility
As part of the drive to better protect citizens and improve the Union’s security environment, the European Commission and the High Representative are proposing a number of actions to improving military mobility within the European Union.
Energy Union: Commission takes action to reinforce EU’s global leadership in clean vehicles
The Commission proposes new targets for the EU fleet wide average CO2 emissions of new passenger cars and vans to help accelerate the transition to low- and zero emission vehicles.
Energy Union: Commission takes action to reinforce EU’s global leadership in clean vehicles
The Commission proposes new targets for the EU fleet wide average CO2 emissions of new passenger cars and vans to help accelerate the transition to low- and zero emission vehicles.
Energy Union: Commission takes action to reinforce EU’s global leadership in clean vehicles
The Commission proposes new targets for the EU fleet wide average CO2 emissions of new passenger cars and vans to help accelerate the transition to low- and zero emission vehicles.
Workforce report 2017 from DEKRA
The qualification analysis based on more than 13900 job offers was presented by DEKRA on October 18, 2017 on a conference in Brussels.
KEP (Courier, Express, Package)-drivers are the backbone of the last mile:
Today click on „confirm“ and next day your delivery man will ring the doorbell. Last year approximately 2,3 billion packages went on their way to their clients. Until a package can be delivered at the door, it takes a lot of fine-tuned processes in the background. IT is taking an important role in it, but in the last mile it is still the humans who take over the most important tasks. The activity as a delivery agent is often demanding, that is why employers in Courier, Express and Package services watch for personal characteristics during the employment process. Reliable candidates who can work under pressure and have good manners have a better chance to find a job quickly.
Most important tasks and experience:
- Load safety, loading and unloading vehicles (25.5%)
- Generla knowledge of roads and places (10.1%)
- Computer, scanners and mobile devices skills (7.6%)
Most important soft skills of KEP drivers
- Reliability, accuracy, on schedule (57.9%)
- Exercise capacity (47.1%)
- Positive appearance, manners (30.6%)
Growth in the workforce
- Transport + 4.6%, growth in KEP industry reuqires more drivers
- Service: cosmetics, cleaning + 7.5%.
- Office: administrative processes + 1.6%. Highest increase since data collection
- Production: Increase 14.9%
- Manufacture: Booming Industry searches production employees
- Development: IT + 6.5%.
- Consultants: Health and social management as well as legal consultants
SAP experts: Between strategie and technology
More than 350’000 companies around the world use SAP software to manage and supervise their processes in real time. Who can use this software – as a consultant, developer or user – has a better chance in the job market.
Hygiene Management
They are everywhere. Micro-organsim. On hands, on all surfaces. They are a danger, especially for older people and other people with a weak immune system. Each individual is responsible, that there is no transfer of micro-organsim to other people.
All sources: DEKRA Akademie 2017