Demand for training
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• Manchester Transport Training Group reveals in its first annual report that it is being inundated with applications for driver training. The demand is far beyond the group's ability to meet at the moment and it believes that the demand will develop even further.
The group reports that in its first year it has trained. 188 drivers, of whom only five failed the end-of-course test; of those submitted for the ministry hgv test; 95 per cent passed. Driver training accounted for 1880 training days in the first year, while the group's management courses at St John's and Salford colleges involved 450 training days.
A third series of management courses will begin in September, based on a syllabus involving the simulated operation of a small haulage company. The group is now running four training vehicles and has applied to the RTITB for an extra artic, a class 3 vehicle and the replacement of a class 3 vehicle by a class 2 machine.