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IT WOL.11.0 appear the Government is ,ilanning to scrap the Road Tr insport Industry Training Bt ard and if a ballot was taken o) road hauliers there would be overwhelming support in favour of this.
The alternative open to the Government is to discontinue the payment of any public money for the running of the RTITB, and all the costs of Capitol House, and its 800 staff spread up and down the country, would have to be financed wholly from the garage and road haulage industry.
The road haulage industry has never wanted Capitol House and all that it stands for in its present form. And most certainly the industry can't afford any increase in the existing one per cent levy to support this over-elaborate and far too ex
pensive form of control over Group Training Associations.
GTAs, however, must be retained for the good of the industry, and while it is quite possible that a number of these will have to close, it can be argued that there are too many at present.
All future training costs and control of training establishments will have to be financed wholly from within the industry. While this is how it should be, the industry must have control over this training and over the financial distribution of the levy.
I advocate the scrapping of the RTITB in its present form and in its place the setting up of a controlling body from within the industry. Just as the industry controls and operates group training associations, let them form a controlling body and be fully responsible for setting up machinery to deal with collection/distribution of levy and control over standards and development of training for the industry.
The industry which pays the levy should also have control over how it is spent within clearly defined limits of policy on training.
R. E. DOBSON
Chairman North Cheshire Training Association Ltd Warrington