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Ready Driver One
Arkansas Road Team begins training on its new driving simulator
Loren Hatfield (ABF Freight) with student
By ATR Staff video gamers and hands-on learners. tually share the road.
Thanks to a grant from the Arkansas On April 26-28, the Road Team
The Arkansas Road Team has gone Commercial Truck Safety and Education gathered in Beebe, Ark. at Stallion
high-tech with its Share the Road Program (ACTSEP), Road Team captains Transportation’s training facility, to
program, and the new technology is will now be able to invite drivers behind learn to use the simulator from L3
sure to be a hit with young audiences, the wheel of a driving simulator to vir- Technologies. Senior trainer Steven
Tatum was on hand to teach captains
about the software and how to create
their own simulated driving scenarios.
The primary purpose of the simula-
tor is to use a controlled environment
to educate drivers — especially high
school students — on safe driving best
practices. Key to the program is learn-
ing how to safely drive around large
t Mark Rook and Eric Brockette (FedEx
Freight) get instruction from Steven
Tatum (L3 Technologies) on building
simulations
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