ADVISORY/ ATA: Truck Driver Simulator Here, Press Can Take the Wheel.News Editors/Transportation Editors/Assignment Desks ADVISORY...Monday (Feb. 10-11) ALEXANDRIA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE) You've likely wondered what it would be like to drive an 18-wheeler. Now you'll have that chance as the Texas Motor Transportation Association (TMTA TMTA Transmeta (stock symbol) TMTA Texas Music Teachers Association TMTA Tennessee Mathematics Teachers Association TMTA Truro Morlaix Twinning Association (UK) ) brings its state-of-the-art truck driver simulator (1) Software that enables the execution of an application written for a different computer environment. Same as emulator. (2) Software that models the interactions of hypothetical or real-world objects or business processes. to Washington, D.C. on February 10-11. Its first stop will be at the American Trucking Associations' (ATA (1) (AT Attachment) The specification for IDE drives. See IDE. (2) See analog telephone adapter. ATA - Advanced Technology Attachment ) headquarters in Alexandria (Monday, Feb. 10), then it will head to the Capitol Capitol, seat of the U.S. Congress Capitol, seat of the U.S. government at Washington, D.C. It is the city's dominating monument, built on an elevated site that was chosen by George Washington in consultation with Major Pierre L'Enfant. Hilton hotel at 16th and K Streets (Tuesday, Feb. 11). The visits are in conjunction with the American Trucking Associations' Winter Leadership Meeting. Reporters are invited to visit either site to "take the wheel" and test their skills. Please contact Mike Russell (ATA) or Lindsay Rowden (TMTA). Lindsay will be on site with the simulator. The simulator is housed in a 53-foot trailer designed as a mobile classroom. The full-motion base of the simulator is what makes the unit so unique and the only one of its kind in the world. The mobile classroom is designed for two specific and very different audiences. In a classroom configuration, the system is used for truck driver training. In the exhibit setup See BIOS setup and install program. , it becomes a walk-through, highly-interactive exhibit that allows the public to climb into the simulator and see what it is like to share the road with a truck. When in public-exhibit mode, car drivers can be educated on blind spots, stopping times, turning capabilities and more by actually climbing behind the wheel of a fully-operational and full-motion truck cab. With a touch of a button, instructors can change the weather, fail the brakes, or take control of other vehicles at a moment's notice. Many types of tractor-trailer configurations may be simulated, ranging from flat bed trailers to school buses. Most engine and transmissions can be simulated in the more than 30 separate training scenarios. The TMTA unit was developed in part with a grant from the Texas Department of Transportation with additional funding provided by the TMTA Foundation. The unit is transported by a Volvo VN780 donated by Volvo Trucks Volvo Trucks (sv: Volvo Lastvagnar), a Swedish truck manufacturer, owned by Volvo, is the World's second largest heavy-duty truck brand. Founded in 1927, in 2006 Volvo Trucks employed about 35,000 people around the world. North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . |
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