Scania Top Team celebrates the unsung heroes

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Scania Group Press Release  /  November 21, 2017

Scania Top Team is back! The competition to find the best service technicians in the Scania network is under way again. Between now and December 2018, service technicians from all over the world will put their practical and theoretical skills to the test in national, regional and world finals.

Top Team has come a long way since its start in 1989. At first it was a purely Swedish event, but soon the competition captured the imagination of other Nordic countries; later it spread into the rest of Europe, and in recent years it has become a truly global challenge.

One man who is as excited as any of the 2017/18 competitors is Harald Cederberg, Director for Technical Training at the ScaniaAcademy. As head of the Top Team jury, Cederberg has followed the competition’s development through the years.

8,000 competitors

Cederberg first became involved with Top Team in 2003. Since then he has seen it grow to an event comprising 8,000 competitors from 70 countries, grouped into Europe, Asia/Oceania and Latin America/Africa. “The event benefits Scania in two ways,” he says. “It’s about the teams being able to build up their competencies as service technicians, and it’s about building the Scania brand so we can attract new talent.”

It also gives some well-deserved attention to some unsung heroes in the Scania network.

“Part of this is to shine a light on the service technicians, as they are core to the service organization,” Cederberg says. “These are the people who meet the customer and add value to the customer every day.”

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