A new schedule for VISTA entails that the next edition of the popular aftermarket competition will start in 2015.
The VISTA World Championship, Volvo Trucks and Buses aftermarket competition is held every two years and is the world’s largest of its kind for aftermarket personnel.
Team Harju, the VISTA team from the Volvo Truck Centre in Tampere, Finland, are the new world champions after finishing first in this week’s world final in Gothenburg.
Having started with more than 17,000 people in 4,471 teams from 93 countries, the competition for VISTA 2012-2013 is now down to just 32 teams – all of whom are now in Gothenburg this week for the world final.
This week, 32 teams from all over the world will arrive in Gothenburg for the VISTA 2012-2013 world final. Three of those teams, Team Harju, Kuusamon Wetteri and Wetteri Power Oy, are from Finland - more than any other country.
Since its launch in 2010, the Skills for Life programme has been a huge success, with all nine apprentices successfully forging careers with Volvo Trucks in South Africa. Now Manqoba Mkhize has become the first graduate to reach a VISTA semi final.
With less than a month to go until the VISTA 2012-2013 world final, reining world champions Avesta Cruising Club recently handed over the cup in preparation for a new winner.
With the remaining finals ending in Sydney last week, the semi final phase of VISTA 2012-2013 is now over, and the competition is down to just 32 teams who will travel to Gothenburg this June for the world final.
After a tough APAC final, the last semi final for VISTA 2012-2013, six more teams have qualified for the world final, where they will compete alongside the best workshop personnel from all around the world.
Over the past three weeks, VISTA semi finals in Greensboro, Madrid and Curitiba, have generated extensive print, online and even television coverage from a number of media sources across the world.
April 18: The final day of competition in Madrid included semi finals for NAME (North Africa, Middle East) region and Volvo Buses.
April 17: The seventh VISTA semi final in Madrid saw ten teams from UK and Ireland compete in the morning session, followed by ten teams from Russia.
April 16: The sixth semi final to take place in Madrid saw an interesting mix of teams from South Africa, Belgium, Luxemburg and the Netherlands.
April 11: 18 teams from Belarus, Ukraine, Israel, Greece, Portugal, Moldova, Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey, competed together yesterday, in the Region East VISTA semi final.
Twenty teams from Lithuania, Croatia, Hungary, Serbia, Estonia, Poland and Slovenia, meet up in Madrid last Wednesday, for the Central East VISTA semi final. After a full day of competition, two Hungarian teams, Pevijola and Polgár1, qualified for the world final.
The VISTA 2012-2013 Latin America semi final has now ended, with the winners recently announced. B270F (Treviso Betim, Brazil), VTT (Dipesul Canoas, Brazil) and Macasa Vision (Ecuador).
April 9: The competition in the Central Europe VISTA semi final has now ended, with staff at the Volvo Training Centre in Madrid hosting another successful semi final.
Finland’s contingent of teams at last week’s Nordic VISTA 2012-2013 semi final in Madrid, put in an exceptional performance claimed three of the four world final spots available.
Yesterday, 4th April, saw twenty teams from Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland arrive at the Volvo Training Centre in Madrid, to participate in the Nordic VISTA semi finals.
With the conclusion of the Italy, Spain and France VISTA semi finals, another five teams have now qualified for the world final. The winners were announced at an award ceremony last night in Madrid.
Yesterday, 3rd April, the first of eight semi finals in Madrid kicked off, with teams from Spain, France and Italy competing for spots in the world final. The winners will be announced tonight at an award dinner.
After a lot of planning and hard work, the technical trainers at the Volvo Training Center in Madrid, Spain, are ready to host eight VISTA semi finals between 3-19 April.
Babine Truck & Equipment, the VISTA team from Prince George, Canada, have become the first to qualify for the VISTA 2012-2013 world final after winning the North American semi final.
With the theoretical rounds of VISTA 2012-2013 now over, it’s time to go over the statistics and see if the competition lived up to its aim of being the biggest and best VISTA ever.
To reward and acknowledge teams that best exemplify VISTA values, Volvo Group Truck Sales & Marketing APAC is awarding Hero certificates to three teams after each round. Here are the winners from Round Two.
At midnight last Tuesday night, the third and final round of VISTA 2012-2013 came to a close, with nearly 4000 teams from across the globe successfully completing all three rounds. However the competition is far from over, with semi finals taking place in April.
With Round Two of VISTA 2012-2013 now well and truly over, it can be confirmed that participation remains high, setting the scene for a thrilling final round in January.
VISTA isn’t about winning and losing – it’s about teamwork, training and development. To reflect this, Volvo Group Truck Sales & Marketing APAC is awarding Hero Certificates to teams that best exemplify these values. Here are Round One’s Heroes.
Round Two of VISTA 2012-2013 kicks off this Monday. As with Round One, all teams will be able to access the questions from midnight on Sunday night, and will have exactly three weeks to submit their answers.
With VISTA 2012-2013 now underway all eyes are on one trophy – the world championship. But a VISTA team from the Volvo Truck & Bus Centre in Milton Keynes, UK, currently claims a trophy of a completely different kind.
VISTA 2012-2013 has seen a number of new changes take place from previous competitions, but the most noticeable has been the new logo. Nigel Atterbury, Senior Graphic Designer at Volvo Product Design, explains the ideas and thoughts behind it.
Round One of VISTA 2012-2013 officially closed last Wednesday, with a record high 96.8 percent of participants successfully completing their questions. In some markets, participation even reached 100 percent.
Due to disturbances in some of the supporting systems, such as Trucks Portal and Impact, VISTA organizers have decided to extend the deadline for Round One until 23:59 on 2nd October. Teams have until then to submit their final answers. The time schedule for publishing answers and team rankings has also been pushed back.
Participation in VISTA 2012-2013 has experienced a dramatic increase, breaking its previous record by over 3000 participants. When registrations closed at midnight last Friday night, exactly 16,802 people, forming 4443 teams, had signed up – making this easily the biggest VISTA in the competition’s 55-year history.
This Monday September 10, the competition for VISTA 2012-2013 will officially begin with the opening of Round One. From midnight all registered teams will be able to access the first round of questions, and will have exactly three weeks to submit their answers.
With registrations for VISTA 2012-2013 closing at midnight this Friday, 7 September, all potential participants are strongly urged to get their teams registered as soon as possible, or risk missing out on what is set to be the biggest and best VISTA competition yet.
This week both Asia and Latin America experienced a huge increase in registrations for VISTA 2012-2013.
Registrations for VISTA 2012-2013 continue to flood in, passing 5000 earlier this week.
Kjell Helmer, from Sweden, is a Key Bus Technician with the team Bonnraggarna, who reached the world final of VISTA in 2011.
A little over a year ago, the Avesta Cruising Club stood in shock as they were announced as winners of VISTA 2011. But with registrations for the next VISTA now being accepted, its time for them to defend their title.
It’s been less than a fortnight since registrations opened, and already over 1100 participants, making up over 400 teams, have signed up.
With registrations for VISTA 2012-2013 now being accepted, teams from all over the world are currently preparing. Some teams boast decades of experience while others are taking part for the first time. But there are characteristics that all successful teams share. We look at seven vital factors for building a successful team, and previous finalists share their tips and suggestions.
On May 17, a kick-off meeting for VISTA 2012-2013 was held in Bangkok, which was attended by 14 Asia VISTA market leaders. Representing an estimated 646 teams, the leaders discussed rules and guidelines, as well as their objectives and ambitious for the upcoming competition. The kick-off meeting follows on from a marketing communication managers kick-off meeting held in Korea last month.
Registrations will soon be accepted for VISTA 2012-2013 – Volvo Trucks’ and Volvo Buses’ world championship for service and workshop personnel. VISTA 2011 was the biggest yet, involving over 13,700 participants from 75 different countries, however VISTA 2012-2013 has the potential to be even bigger and better.
