{"id":875,"date":"2012-09-11T10:10:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T08:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.surreyandhampshirehgvtraining.co.uk\/news\/?p=331"},"modified":"2012-09-11T10:10:44","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T08:10:44","slug":"gabriel-warde-crowned-scania-young-european-truck-driver-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.surreyandhampshirehgvtraining.co.uk\/index.php\/gabriel-warde-crowned-scania-young-european-truck-driver-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabriel Warde crowned Scania Young European Truck Driver 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland&#8217;s Gabriel Warde has won the <a href=\"http:\/\/www4.scania.com\/en-GB\/SDC-2012\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scania Young European Truck Driver 2012<\/a> (YETD) competition.<\/p>\n<p>The final was held in S\u00f6dert\u00e4lje, Sweden, on Saturday afternoon [8 September] and attracted close to 10,000 spectators. Warde as victor will receive a new Scania R-series, at a value of \u20ac100,000 (\u00a380,000).<\/p>\n<p>In total, 24 countries were represented with tests including defensive and fuel-economy driving, cargo securing, check before driving, rescue and fire, and safe manoeuvering.<\/p>\n<p>Erik Ljungberg, senior vice-president and head of Scania corporate relations, said: \u201cThere is only one who can call himself the best young truck driver in Europe but I think all 24 can call themselves winners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scania YETD is a global initiative promoting responsible, safe driving. It was set up in 2003 to highlight the role of the driver, and to attract more young people into the driving profession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland&#8217;s Gabriel Warde has won the Scania Young European Truck Driver 2012 (YETD) competition. The final was held in S\u00f6dert\u00e4lje, Sweden, on Saturday afternoon [8 September] and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-23 13:42:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surreyandhampshirehgvtraining.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surreyandhampshirehgvtraining.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surreyandhampshirehgvtraining.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surreyandhampshirehgvtraining.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surreyandhampshirehgvtraining.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.surreyandhampshirehgvtraining.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surreyandhampshirehgvtraining.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surreyandhampshirehgvtraining.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surreyandhampshirehgvtraining.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}