Month: March 2022

How Truck Driving Simulators Improve Driver Safety

Good drivers are a necessity when it comes to your trucking business. With how many products are being shipped today in our rapidly growing economy, there is a lot of competition for good-paying jobs. 

You can improve your hiring process and get the best drivers on the road by looking for ways to stand out from other trucking businesses. The benefits of a truck simulator can save your company a lot of time while increasing safety and saving you money in the future.

How Truck Simulators Work

The truck simulator owes a lot to its predecessor, flight simulators which have been around for years. If you place a trainee in the cockpit of a plane too soon, this can present all sorts of danger. Similarly, if you place a trainee at the wheel of a truck, the same kinds of dangers exist. 

Before hitting the road, drivers need a safe environment to gain the experience they need with a truck’s instruments, visibility, feel, and gears. A truck simulator creates a safe environment to gain that experience.  The truck simulator gives the appearance of a cab of a truck; complete with a driver’s seat and controls. Computer screens give the driver a realistic 180-degree view. The software simulates what’s ahead, to the side, and in the side mirrors. Practical scenarios are presented such as driving in traffic, parking, and backing up. Responsive controls can simulate the feel of all types of trucks. 

Increased Safety

Increased safety is one of the biggest benefits of using a truck driving simulator. New trainees can log many hours of hands-on experience where they can make their mistakes where it’s safe. Simulator training is used throughout multiple industries including the medical industry where students can learn in a safe environment. Hundreds of hours can be logged by drivers before they get into the cab of one of your trucks. 

While being able to make all the common mistakes new drivers make without any real-world consequences, real driving situations are performed using a truck driving simulator. Supervisors can review the data and performance of trainees and document areas where improvement is needed before handing over the keys to your truck. With the driver training services offered in a simulator, mastery is possible without the dangers of the real world. 

Cost-Efficient Training

With the rise in fuel prices, the first stages of training can be incredibly expensive. Truck simulators require zero fuel saving you money while new hires can still log their initial training time. 

Your trucks already are delt a great amount of wear and tear because of the road. You can increase the lifespan of your trucks by avoiding the harsh driving that comes during training. Once training is completed, you can trust your drivers will have the necessary skills to avoid putting your trucks through unnecessary stress. 

Learn More about Truck Simulators

Truck simulators open up doors to a whole new world of truck driver training. As a result, you will get better-trained drivers and major savings on fuel and maintenance costs. Drivers will be able to practice common tasks like gear shifting, starting and stopping, and backing and parking. These tasks will feel realistic when using the advanced software provided with truck simulators. 

Road conditions of all sorts can be simulated like icy and wet roads. Drivers can experience what it’s like to drive through crowded urban cities or a poorly paved open road. Your drivers will be ready for any kind of road conditions.

Get all these benefits and many more with truck simulators. Your greatest asset is your driver. Create the most optimized training program for them that they wouldn’t get at other companies. Adding truck simulators to your training program will allow you to build the trust you need in your drivers.

How To Go Shopping With Babies

There are so many simple tasks that suddenly become daunting once you become a mom. Take shopping: there are so many ways that putting a baby in a grocery cart can go wrong! So here are some simple tips on how to go shopping with babies.

Put The Baby’s Car Seat in the Shopping Cart

This is a very tempting option, but it does come with significant downsides. Studies show that an average of 24,000 babies a year are involved in some kind of mishap as a result of being in a car seat on a shopping cart.

As inviting as this option is, car seats are not built to fit into shopping carts. Because they are such a poor fit, it makes it highly likely that your baby will be involved in some kind of mishap. Mishaps can be as extreme as a fractured skull, a concussion and even death.

If you have to use a shopping cart, check to see if it has a safe dock feature that allows you to safely dock the car seat on the shopping cart.

Wearable Babies!

A safer way to shop with your baby is to wear your baby. Strap your baby onto you using a baby carrier. It’s a great way to bond with your child, and keep them feeling warm and safe. Moreover, it’s not only safe, it’s convenient.

Use a Baby Shopping Hammock

Many people haven’t tried this before, but it’s a great way to shop with your baby and it’s good for your back too!

Baby shopping hammocks have passed the most stringent safety tests and been certified as complying with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) standards.

They are designed so that your baby stays inside the hammock throughout your shopping trip, thanks to the seat harness and baby carrier strap.

The hammock is really light, so you can put it in your diaper bag or purse.

Use a Stroller

Using a Silver Cross Wave stroller is a very safe way to shop with your baby if you are going to the store with your partner or a friend. It’s safe, and it’s comfortable for your baby. It’s also a viable solution for you even if you’re shopping alone with your baby.

There are a number of ways that you can shop with a stroller:

  1. Push the stroller as you pull the cart. You shouldn’t do this if you can’t balance your attention between the stroller and the cart.
  2. Remove the infant seat and place it in the cart. As with the car seat, you will have to make sure that there is a safe dock feature so that this is done safely. You can put your groceries around the baby seat. This is best done if you are not buying a lot of things.
  3. Get a Baby Carrier and Use it with the Stroller. Many parents use a stroller to put their goods in, and then carry their babies while shopping.
  4. Put your groceries under the stroller. Another solution is to place your groceries under your stroller and forego the cart altogether.

The Era Of The Smart Home Draws Near

Artificial intelligence is eating the world, one industry at a time and it’s eating the housing industry. We are on the verge of a new era of the “smart home”. Home automation brings the home alive. In the smart home, a home’s attributes, such as lighting, entertainment systems, climate and appliances can be monitored and/or controlled. This can also extend to home security, with automation of alarm systems and access control. Home devices that are connected to the internet form part of the Internet of Things (IoT). The possibilities of the smart home are many and as more and more homes become automated, we are getting to a tipping point before mass adoption.

Why Does the Smart Home Matter?

Home automation promises to bring all the key features of your home as well as any gadgets under one seamless central smart home hub (or “gateway”). In a smart home, you will be able to control everything in your home with voice commands, saving you time, making your home more convenient, as well as saving on energy use and costs.

How Are Smart Homes Set Up?

This is a massive evolution in the nature of the home and it’s a future that you can literally help build. The technology behind the smart home is designed to be installable by its users. Firms such as ADT believe that the DIY nature of smart homes will make them more attractive to homeowners. The company’s DIY smart home security system is an example of this. It is an intelligent system for the protection of your household goods, from your Creative Cabinets to pot plants, and it is powered by AI and controlled and installed by the consumer.

At present, most DIY systems do take some tech savvy, but engineers are moving toward DIY solutions, but at present, consumers have to settle for “Do It For Me” or DIFM solutions. This entails having a professional install the system for you, and working to reduce the number of apps, hardware devices and switches that are needed to control the system. 

Can I Use Different Smart Home Devices Together?

Interoperability is not an inherent feature of the internet. This is also true of IoT devices. However, a new industry standard, Matter, promises to bring missing interoperability to the smart home industry.

Matter is the product of the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA), under whom device makers have promised to use Matter as the industry standard for future products. Consumers shopping for smart home devices will be able to operate all of them within the same gateway, so long as they carry the Matter logo. Matter will become the industry standard in 2023.

The CSA is composed of tech giants such as Google, Amazon, and Apple, so there is some serious backing behind the standard. Experts believe that it will be in wide use by 2024 or 2025.

Matter will ensure that not only are smart home devices connected to the internet, but that their devices can talk to each other and co-exist in a safe and sustainable way.