RTITB's £500,000 training project for all ranks
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• The Department of Employment and Productivity has approved proposals made by the Road Transport Industry Training Board for the establishment of a ifm MOTEC, or Multi-Occupational Training and Education Centre. This new training and sociological project will be in operation by October at High Ercall in Shropshire, provided that satisfactory conditions of lease can be agreed.
Using part of a disused airfield as a site, it is proposed to establish a training centre which will provide fully integrated training facilities for all grades of personnel within the road transport industry.
Mr. T. E. Tindall, director-general of the RTITB, states that "We will be able to reproduce a realistic working environment for all categories of trainees. Managers will manage actual relevant business situations, involving, for instance, removal lorries, serviced by trainee maintenance men and driven by trainee drivers, which are being loaded by trainee removal porters using loads packed by trainee packers."
This concept will be expanded to cover most of the various types of training needed by the industry from top management to semi-skilled operative levels in businesses which include road haulage, passenger transport, motor vehicle retailing and repairing, sales of petrol, oil, etc., driving schools, warehousing, removals and cold storage.
The first MOTEC—there are to be several more—will be able to provide training for an estimated 1,000 men and women per year. Courses will vary in length from one or two days to several months.
Trainees will live on the site for the duration of their courses, in a residential centre with recreational facilities.
Mr. Tindall added: "We are not trying to replace the training already carried out in • our industry. We will supply facilities in areas where none exist at present."