The Vitebskoblautotrans team became the best in the republic for driver professional skills

September 25, Gomel /Natalia Titushkina - BELTA/. The team of RATUP "Vitebskavtotrans" won the final republican professional driving competition, which took place on September 24-25 in Gomel, as reported to BELTA correspondent by Andrey Evseenko, deputy director of RDAUP "Bus Park No. 6". Second and third places went to the teams of TKUP "Minsktrans" and RUP "Minoblavtotrans" respectively. The leaders in the team competition were awarded competition cups. Winners in the individual competition, of which there were more than 15 in various nominations, will take home valuable prizes (refrigerators, TVs, washing machines, watches, tool kits, etc.) from Gomel in addition to diplomas. The youngest and most experienced drivers, who did not make it to the prize-winners but showed worthy results, were also awarded at the competition. Drivers participated in the competition driving MAZ-103, MAZ-5432, MAZ-5551, GAZ-3110, GAZ-3202 vehicles. As part of the professional skills competition finals in Gomel, an amateur driving contest was also held, in which about 30 volunteers from among the spectators with driving licenses of categories C, D, and E took part. In addition, there was an exhibition of vintage cars, "Radzimich" buses, and new foreign and Belarusian passenger cars (Samand). And the new MAZ models could not only be admired: they were "put into operation" by amateur drivers - participants of the aforementioned contest. One of the MAZ trucks will go to the freight transport enterprise RAUP "Gomeloblavtotrans" after the competition. The Belarusian Scientific Research Institute of Transport "Transtekhnika" ensured the holding of the qualifying and final competitions, the organization of their judging, and the summing up of the results. Professional driving competitions for motor transport drivers have been held in Belarus annually since 2000 and include contests to test knowledge of traffic rules and driving skills. The competitions are organized in two stages: qualifying regional and final. The qualifying rounds were conducted by motor transport organizations independently, and the final rounds are organized by the Ministry of Transport and Communications in conjunction with the Republican Committee of the Belarusian Trade Union of Transport and Road Workers and the DOSAAF association. -0-