FLEETS

Automation skills booster

WESTRAC and Rio Tinto have celebrated the first six months of a partnership that has already helped more than 100 Rio Tinto employees develop skills needed to deal with autonomous equipment.

An autonomous Caterpillar 789 operating at the WesTrac Technology Training Centre in Collie.

An autonomous Caterpillar 789 operating at the WesTrac Technology Training Centre in Collie.

There are another 100 to go through the training at the WesTrac Technology Training Centre in Collie by the end of the year. The program, specifically designed to prepare Rio Tinto workers for a variety...

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