Toptech Ghana, an ISO certified road safety, transport, and logistics management consulting firm, is offering a 2-day training in defensive driving for corporate drivers. Dubbed the “Defensive Driving Programme for Corporate VIP Drivers”, the training will equip drivers in protocol and defensive driving and trip planning.

Toptech Ghana has over 25 years of experience in providing quality training in transport and logistics, health and road safety. Executive Director, Cecil Ebo Garbrah, tells myjoyonline.com that the course is designed to meet the demands of corporate entities who demand par excellence driver-behaviour.

The Road Traffic Regulations 2012 does not allow a person to drive a car for more than 4 hours without rest or more than 8 hours in a 24-hour period without rest. Mr. Garbrah says the modern day driver must be abreast with provisions in road traffic regulations, and meet employers’ demands without compromising professionalism. “LI 2180 says that you should drive for 2-hours and take a rest for 15-30 minutes.

“For instance if you are travelling with your boss to Kumasi, your boss must know that compulsorily, you have to stop at a place like Linda Dor for a period of 5-minutes, 10-minutes and that is a compulsory stop where you need to stop, you need to refresh yourself, take in a little bit of exercise and then get into your vehicle. This is all about Protocol Driving,” Mr. Garbrah added.

Participants, as part of the protocol driving, would be taken through handling of official documents such as those from the banks, dressing and personal hygiene.

“The driver must keep himself clean. For instance, you don’t wear a brown shoe and wear a black belt. We are going to do all that training. The pair of trousers that you wear; the sort of shirts that we are looking at and even the singlet so we are going to do much more about personal hygiene,” said Mr. Garbrah.

Participants at the 2-day programme would be provided with breakfast, lunch and snacks, ISO course certificates, handouts and course documents, among others.

Toptech Ghana hosted professional drivers of GCB for a 2 Day Defensive driving training programme. The objective of the training was to refresh and educate drivers to understand the responsibility of their profession and be updated on new trends in vehicles and road safety.

They were also trained on how to communicate effective with staff, superiors in order to make them not just good drivers but right drivers.

The training proved effective because of the feedback from the trainees and their intention to impart what they had learnt to their fellow drivers and also in all works of their lives.

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Delegates from MIDA, USAID, B&FT and SYSMEX participated in a 2-Days Defensive Driving Training Programme at Toptech Ghana, facilitated by experts from the Transport Industry.

Delegates were taken through theory and practical sessions of all that defensive driving entails. Delegates received training under topics such us Speed Management, Principles and Vehicle Dynamics, Vehicle Electronics, Trip Planning, Vehicle Maintenance and much more.

Overall, delegates where impressed by the training presentation and cafeteria services offered to them. They promised to suggest an extension of training days to their respective management to enable them cover all the course materials thoroughly.

Toptech was pleased to welcome Mr. Jason Finch, a Project Manager from Transaid, UK to our office at the beginning of June 2021 to discuss their newly launched programme to enhance Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGV) driver training standards in Ghana.

Transaid is an international development NGO with over 20 years of experience working in the transport and logistics sector. They have a significant amount of experience in developing HGV training standards at a national and regional level, and strengthening driver training capacity with partner training institutions across Africa.

As one of Ghana’s leading driver training institutions, Toptech has welcomed this initiative, and is keen to see it succeed. Speaking about the programme, Mr. Cecil Garbrah, Toptech Executive Director, commented that ‘our professional drivers are the lifeblood of our economy, and this initiative will help ready our transporter sector for the next phase of our national growth, while improving road safety across the country’.

Toptech is set to support Transaid in the development of the new HGV driver training standard for HGV drivers, and we call on the those working in the professional driver training space to rally behind this programme.

More information about Transaid can be found on their website here: www.transaid.org

CECIL GARBRAH – Executive Director and founder of Toptech Transport & Logistics speaks to defensive driving on our roads on the Super Morning Show on Joy FM.

This discussion is as a result of the many road accidents happening on our roads every year, and the bad attitude of drivers on the road and the lack of enforcement of traffic laws and regulations.

Toptech Ghana in collaboration with the Ministry of Transport and MTTD embarked on a traffic decongestion exercise at Labone on the 12th and 15th of March 2021.

The call for this exercise is due to the heavy traffic that builds up later in the day from Police Headquarters, Danquah Circle roundabout through to Labone and its environs. This traffic is caused by the U Turn along the Labone road, with vehicles moving in from Nyaniba estates and Danquah Circle towards Labone.

The exercise, involved, temporarily blocking two U-Turns on the Danquah Circle and Labone Junction road in order to monitor traffic flow. Traffic was redirected to the proper U-Turn  at the end of the road stretch which is close to the La General Hospital which about a kilometer away.

The exercise proved successful, since it really improved traffic flow from Police Headquarters, Danquah Circle and Nyaniba Esates Osu as well as from Labadi to Labone.

Drivers and Road Users on the road where happy about the free flow of traffic and called for the decongestion exercise to be implemented by the Ministry of Roads and Transport and MTTD.

A 2-Day Defensive Driving Training Programme was help over the weekend for Professional Drivers from Sysmex West and Central Africa Ltd.

Training Programme was hosted at Toptech’s Training Facility on the 5th and 6th of February 2021.

Delegates were trained on Topics such as Causes of Road Accidents, Speed Management, Vehicle Dynamics and much more.

Delegates, after the training, shared what they made of the programme and how it has benefited them in becoming better and more efficient in their Driving Career.

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Unilever invites Toptech as part of their Road Safety awareness campaign to throw more light on the dos and don’ts as a Driver and Road User.

On the 7th and 8th of November 2020, Toptech Transport and Logistics hosted Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB) Drivers on a 2-Day Defensive Driving and Soft Skills Training.

Many Thanks to all delegates on a successful training programme