A traditional competition of professional skills among truck drivers working in divisions and organizations of KAMAZ (part of Rostec State Corporation) was held at the auto giant.
The event was attended by 32 drivers from various divisions and subsidiaries of KAMAZ with a driving experience of 3 to 36 years. All of them transport goods and, as the key factor, have a driver's license of the C category.
The competition program consisted of one theoretical and three practical stages. The drivers showed their theoretical knowledge beforehand. At this stage, the men answered the questions of traditional examination papers of traffic rules - they are familiar to everyone who passed the exams to receive a driver's licence. And the main action unfolded on the site in front of the Essen shopping center in the New City part of Naberezhnye Chelny. As practical tasks, the participants performed exercises in a KAMAZ-65115 truck. Practical tasks as Backing into a Perpendicular Park, Depose a King and Slalom were based on usual maneuvering tasks. The peculiarities of their performance allowed the jury to assess the participants' skills in driving a truck, moving forward and backward.
At all stages of the competition, time and accuracy of task performance were taken into account, penalty points were charged for mistakes. At the same time, only a certain number of participants with the best results were allowed to a subsequent stage. As a result, the last practical task was performed by three drivers who struggled for prize places.
The results of the competition were summed up by the panel of judges. First place was taken by Oleg Azarenko from Logistics Center (4 years of driving experience). Second place went to Evgeny Erkhov, a representative of the same division of KAMAZ, with a driving experience of 12 years. Pyotr Ivanov, driver of OOO STFK KAMAZ, became third, his driving experience is 35 years. All the winners received cups, diplomas and medals, as well as cash prizes of 15, 10 and 5 thousand rubles in respect to their positions.
Artyom Gobov from the Logistics Center was aknowledged to be the best young driver. He is 22 year old, being a driver for four years. The oldest driver was 57-year-old Yuri Ilyukhin from AvtoZapchast KAMAZ LLC with a driving experience of 36 years. The youngest and oldest drivers were given gift certificates worth 10,000 rubles.