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The RTITB's latest publication, "Managers in Road Transport," is a mine of useful information if you happen to be a transport training planner in the RTITB. For the rest of us it's a bit of a "so what?" The study is undoubtedly a credit to its authors but why the rest of us need to know its content — "We printed only 2,000," said a Board spokesman — I'll never know.
When this tome thumped down on my desk — it has 228 pages and must weigh a kilo — it had been all round the office, so now the staff of CM know that the average age of a transport manager (goods) is 42.2 years, whereas his passenger colleagues average 46.7 years. They also know that seven per cent of managers will retire in the next five years and 15 per cent within 10 years.
Regionally there are no variations in the age pattern of management — startling stuff.. But the educational survey had more to say.
Only 3.1 per cent of transport managers are graduates. In real terms that's 1,642 compared with 80 10 years ago. Not a very dramatic rise, but why?
The survey does not provide
the answer but going on tlbasis that salary might have hz. something to do with it, does th survey include salaries?
'' No, it does not becau5 such a question would ha% upset those in the survey.
But there are loads of othi details. Our man who attendE the launch of the publicatie tells me that the Board now ii tends to use the information i set up a training programme fc managers.
One point is still obscure i his mind and mine, the surve does not define a manager. S who was it surveying?