Opening its doors for driver training
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• The Samuel Williams driver training school at the company's Thames Terminal, Dagenham. Essex, is to be opened to outside companies. The school has an hgv test pass rate of 94 per cent in Class I category—believed by Samuel Williams to be the highest in the country.
The training officer of Samuel Williams Transport, Mr Joe Fisher, suggests that the school will be particularly valuable to small-to-medium transport firms whose siz does not warrant them establishing their own training system.
Three driving instructors. Motec-trained, assist Mr Fisher in providing classroom and practical training. There is appropriate operating instruction, too: for example, tanker drivers are taught the use of pumps and pressure discharge equipment, while general haulage drivers get instruction in roping and sheeting.