How Essential Skills Are Linked to Challenges in Your Business
As demonstrated in the checklist you completed, Essential Skills are underlying skills used by professional drivers to complete everyday work tasks. Professional drivers have varying Essential Skills levels, which can affect their job performance.
Document use skills affect professional drivers’ ability to understand and prepare documents such as:
- bills of lading and loading manifest
- pre- and post-trip inspections
- weight charts
- driver’s scorecards
- log data
- schedule 1 TDG
We know that:
Reading skills affect professional drivers’ ability to understand materials such as:
- instructions for securing loads
- tie-down procedures
- border-crossing handbooks
- regulations for dangerous goods
Numeracy skills affect professional drivers’ ability to perform numeracy tasks such as:
- calculate gross weights of loads
- complete trip planning
- calculate hours worked for driver’s logs and weekly pay sheets
- analyze log data
Now that you have made the link between essential skills and business challenges you can dig deeper to learn where they may be impacting your bottom line.
Take a few minutes to complete the questionnaire “Are Essential Skills impacting your business?” assessment. It will help you identify priority areas and potential Essential Skills strategies.