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IE newly appointed director-general of the Road Haulage Associan, Freddie Plaskett, has told the Secretary of State for Employant, Norman Tebbit, that the Road Transport Industry Training ard should be slimmer and more effective, reports MIKE I THERFORD.
n response to the Manpower rvices Commission's report of air sector by sector review of dustrial and commercial ining entitled "A Framework the Future", Mr Plaskett said A RHA members believe less ingent exemption criteria, tother with expanding advisory d consultancy services on a ?-paying basis, would enurage individual companies in industry to move towards luntary arrangements and so )duce a slimmer and more ective Board.
rhe implementation of these oposals would help to ercome the concern ex pressed by hauliers that they have little effpctive control over the way in u‘shich Board Levy funds are used, predicts Mr Plaskett.
"We are disappointed that the MSC has rejected our recommendation for a statutory crossindustry occupational Board for all operators of heavy goods vehicles whose employees have common skills, especially since the implementation of the 1968 Transport Act," he said.
If it is still the intention to introduce voluntary training arrangements for all but a few key industries, an occupationally based Board for the road transport industry would appear to be more appropriate, according to Mr Plaskett.
"Although this would extend the scope of the present Board, bureaucracy would not be exacerbated, as suggested by the MSC, if levy could be raised by increasing the fee payable under the vehicle operators' licensing system or through vehicle excise duty.
Mr Plaskett also says that if it is decided, against the wishes of employers, to retain a single statutory Board covering two or more major sectors, it is impera