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Myers Uses Lifelike Training Simulator to Recruit

Allan Myers has incorporated Volvo’s advanced training simulators into its new mobile training center as the company launches its three-year recruiting project, Stepping Up. With Stepping Up, the duo aims to provide Myers employees with the skills needed to confront workforce demand for years to come.

“When we look to the future, one of the biggest challenges we see is having trained craft professionals,” said Bob Capps, director of craft development for Allan Myers. “With the United States’ renewed focus on infrastructure, the work is going to be available, but the problem is having a trained workforce — specifically heavy equipment operators, truck drivers and carpenters.”

The Myers Mobile Training Center offers two Volvo Advanced Training Simulators for excavator, wheel loader, and articulated hauler operations. Each simulator provides trainees with a true-to-life motion base, allowing them to experience the machine as it would function on site. With 3D graphics and an electrically controlled full-motion platform, the machine simulates high-stress situations and difficult environments within a safe space.

“The Volvo simulators have the best motion base to really give you the feeling that you are in a machine,” Capps said. “We put some really experienced operators in those seats and they were truly surprised at how realistic it felt. The simulators put you into the situations you will encounter with a real machine.”

With virtual reality and simulation construction training on the rise, the goal of the industry’s future is to thoroughly train newcomers and promote within the industry using this lifelike technology.

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  • Volvo Car Dr, Ridgeville, SC 29472, USA
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