Brunei’s ride hailing app Dart will be offering its pool of drivers first aid and road safety training programmes by MAED Consultation and Training Company.
The training programmes will help drivers increase their competencies in delivering first aid and maintaining road safety while on the job.
The two-day training with MAED will commence in late March, with Dart and MAED collaborating to offer a “special rate” for drivers following a MoU signing between both parties at the Radisson Hotel on February 25.
The training is optional, but Dart said undertaking it will increase drivers’ prospects for higher standard jobs, which include sending school children and transporting healthcare professionals and low mobility patients from more remote areas.
“The training will open up our drivers for more opportunities within the company; aside from ridesharing and delivery, we also do school runs and we only pick our top drivers to do those jobs. This training will help (our drivers) get picked for these jobs,” said Dart co-founder and CEO Keeran DP Janin.
He added that Dart is looking to onboard other partners to upskill their drivers further, including areas outside driving such as life skills to creative a more conducive ecosystem for their drivers.
Dart has over 300 drivers signed up to ferry passengers, with over 70 focused on transporting items. During the second and now third wave of COVID-19, Dart has shifted their focus from transporting passengers to items as part of their new Dart Runner service.
Dart Runner currently fulfills last-mile delivery and item transport for several logistics companies, and recently partnered with the Ministry of Health to sell and deliver ART kits online.
