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Cargo Carriers training for beyond COVID-19

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A focus for Cargo Carriers is developing a pipeline of technical skills to service and maintain its large fleet of commercial vehicles so as to ensure a sustainable future.
A focus for Cargo Carriers is developing a pipeline of technical skills to service and maintain its large fleet of commercial vehicles so as to ensure a sustainable future.

While all accent is currently falling on fighting the coronavirus pandemic, there will be life after COVID-19. It is then that we are all going to have to bring everything to bear on recovering from the economic and human damage done by this horrible virus.

Cargo Carriers, a leading South African supply-chain solutions specialist, is playing its part in this by assisting the South African road freight logistics sector develop the skills it needs to ensure a sustainable future.

This focus includes developing the technical acumen that is needed at the “coal face” to ensure the continued safe and efficient delivery of fuels and chemicals, in addition to steel and powder products on behalf of the company’s industrial customers.

Apprentices get to train at the coal face at Cargo Carriers which include the workings of a brake roller tester.
Apprentices get to train at the coal face at Cargo Carriers which include the workings of a brake roller tester.

A significant focus for the company is developing a robust pipeline of technical skills to service and maintain its large fleet of commercial vehicles that are becoming increasingly more sophisticated. 

The company is known for the high quality of its apprenticeship programmes, which remain the missing link in a skills-development system that was previously the primary responsibility of various state-owned entities.

Six new diesel mechanic apprentices were inducted in 2019 – one being Cargo Carriers’ first female learner; four apprentices are in their third year and five are busy with their fourth-year qualification. 

Six new diesel mechanic apprentices were inducted in 2019 - one being Cargo Carriers’ first female learner; four apprentices are in their third year and five are busy with their fourth-year qualification.
Six new diesel mechanic apprentices were inducted in 2019 – one being Cargo Carriers’ first female learner; four apprentices are in their third year and five are busy with their fourth-year qualification.

By aligning theoretical and practical learning, they have proved to be an extremely effective means of transferring skills from one generation to the next. 

Moreover, these programmes have been designed to improve mastery and acquaint apprentices with the challenges that arise in the workplace to cultivate critical thinking skills in ways that are impossible in a conventional classroom environment. 

It is heartening to know that in spite of the disruption of the world by the coronavirus pandemic, Cargo Carriers is continuing to develop the human capital it will need to remain at the forefront of South Africa’s road-freight logistics industry when the full wheels of economy start turning again.