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TRTA Wants C-licence Vehicles and Men Within Transport Training Board

7th May 1965, Page 57
7th May 1965
Page 57
Page 57, 7th May 1965 — TRTA Wants C-licence Vehicles and Men Within Transport Training Board
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

FROM \A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

r.L10ENSED transport should be included in a road transport training board; it would be quite illogical to fragment the treatment of " C " vehicles and staffs for industrial training purposes in the way which would occur if they were brought under the individual training boards for the industries they serve. This view has now been put to the Minister of Labour by the Traders Road Transport Association.

The .1.RTA national council decided on Saturday that the Ministry should. be 'treed to include C-licence transport as a whole within the road transport training board or, if this were not possible, to include the major part of it.

The council feels that, by the test of whether C-licensed transport is more akin to )103-licensed transport •or to the

particular industry in which it is engaged, it is manifest that the transport affinity is the stroner one.

Also, although the industrial training machinery is basically opposed to breaking tip industries and hiving-off parts of them to a separate training board, transport is unusual or even unique in that, as well as serving all industries, it is an industry in itself. It thus differs fundamentally front other groups (such as clerks, for example) which are found throughout industry, regardless of the type 01 husiFICSS conducted.

Also the IRTA feels it would be quite wrong to establish a road transport training board which included only a numerical minority of road transport (i.e. about 200.000 A113-licensed vehicles and not 1 m. CT-licensed vehicles).