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• The Road Haulage Association and the Traders Road Transport Association are to draw up an examination syllabus for licensed transport managers. The draft syllabus is being prepared at the request of the transport managers' licence committee, and the Institute of Road Transport Engineers is to provide assistance on the engineering side of the syllabus.
It has been agreed by the RHA and TRTA that the qualification achieved by passing the examination should be a single comprehensive one and not divided into sections covering engineering and administration separately. They have also agreed that any statutory requirement for a TML should only require a minimum of mechanical knowledge and that the syllabus should be related to road safety and should comprise the basic legal obligations for the operation of vehicles.
It is proposed that the syllabus should be set out in a booklet rather like the Highway Code; the booklet would merely summarize the most important regulations, while others referring to the operation of special types. food transport and hazardous loads would be listed for reference. Technicalities would be explained clearly in simple English.
The present proposal is that the examination would be a written one but that anyone who failed because he was not adept at expressing himself on paper should be given the opportunity to take an oral examination. There would be no practical tests.
The transport managers' licence committee has accepted an RHA/TRTA recommendation that the name "transport manager's licence" should be changed to "vehicle supervisor's licence" as being a more fitting description.