Adapting to Meet Existing Conditions

When determining how well drivers are schooled in their trade, it is important to see how well they can drive. You should look for certain factors while evaluating the skills necessary for the task at hand. 

determine the driver s ability to avoid accidents. This may be the most important characteristic of the driver. No matter how well qualified a driver is in other areas of work, an accident repeater will always be a bad investment for the company. 

look at the driver s ability to follow traffic regulations. This is also important because repeat regulation violators are just accidents waiting to happen. If you have such individuals driving for your company, it can be a public relations liability. 

A good driver is also one who cares for the vehicle. This is done through upkeep and maintenance. A fleet of clean vehicles can be a pubic relations boost to the company. An individual who cares for his or her vehicle and drives the same vehicle daily could show better gas mileage and in the long run save the company money. 

The ability to meet scheduled deadlines is another major part of being a good driver. The schedules your company incorporates should be set so that a driver can stay in compliance with reasonable effort. When a driver gets behind, it throws off the whole schedule and can lead to accidents when drivers try to make up time.  

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Driver selection is a critical component of the motor fleet safety program. The company wants to make sure that it obtains qualified and safety conscious drivers. A good driver must be able to avoid accidents, follow traffic regulations, perform pre- and posttrip inspections, avoid abrupt starts and stops, avoid schedule delays, avoid irritating the public, perform the nondriving parts of the job, get along with others, and adapt to meet existing conditions. 

Adaptation of existing experimental methods and theories, and development of new ones, to study (usually at reservoir conditions) the key phase, dispersion, and interfacial properties that control dispersion-based mobility processes, as determined from pore-level mechanisms and from other studies (D. H. Smith, Southwest American Chemical Society Meeting, Houston, November 19-21, 1986). 

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