Top finish for Scania NZ champs
Scania New Zealand’s champion service team has placed second in the Top Team World Finals in Södertälje, Sweden
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The Scania NZ service team
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Scania New Zealand’s champion service team has placed second in the Top Team World Finals in Södertälje, Sweden. The ‘Cog Swappers’ took home more than NZD $50,000 in prize money, just shy of first place taken out by Scania Germany, with Scania Brazil placing third.
The New Zealand team was one of 12 Scania service teams from around the world that qualified through a series of national and regional competitions to compete at the 11th international Top Team World Finals.
Cog Swappers’ team coach Russell Dixon says the team is pleased and satisfied with the final result. "We thoroughly enjoyed the experience and the chance to compete against the best Scania service teams in the world," he says.
The first day of competition saw the teams compete for just four places in the live-streamed ‘Super Final’ set for the following day. "The Super Final event was a blur — very intense, exciting, and filled with pressure.
It was the perfect end to our Top Team campaign, which was a fantastic experience for us, writing the first page in Scania New Zealand Top Team history," says Russell. "The Cog Swappers put in a huge amount of hard work preparing for the regional and world finals, proving that teams that work hard and prepare well, achieve results."
From the start of 2020, about 8000 participants from 70 markets around the world completed Scania’s 100 points theory test. The best national teams competed in the national finals to qualify for the regional finals.
From each of the six regions, the two best teams met in Södertälje for the Top Team World Finals. The Top Team competition format is designed around daily work patterns with the main objective being to satisfy the needs of the customer.
Teams of five are required to complete five practical workstations, each with a 20-minute time limit, such as diagnosing and correctly fixing a fault in the EBS system on a vehicle, including identifying and ordering correct replacement parts with correct part numbers, answering theory-based questions associated with the task and using Scania workshop support programmes.
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