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Ed Pargeler Director. EP Training Leatherhead, Surrey Ed Pargeter has
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been involved in road transport industry training for more than 25 years. He and his colleagues are in the process of compiling a training programme dealing specifically with digital tachographs, which will be targeted at managers and cost in the region of £150 a head.
They also hope to set up a separate course for drivers, which Pargeter says will cost around £60 for four hours.
"Ifs a minefield," he warns. "There are something like 80 different symbols that an operator needs to know about in order to be able to analyse the data."
The managers' course will be up and running in the New Year, although, as Pargeter admits, there's little demand for training right now because nobody knows for certain when the tachograph rules will take effect.
Most companies are understandably reluctant to pay for training now when staff could have forgotten most of what they learned by the time digital becomes mandatory.
"The demand is mainly going to come when people start ordering new vehicles and realise they'll have to run two types of tachographs, analogue and digital."