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Training based on experience
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I WRITE IN response to the letter from Richard Jordan headed 'Driver training programmes are too limited' (CM 2 February).
As the co-author of the programme, I can firstly assure you that my own "ivory towerfor the past 27 years has been dealing with the problems which arose while I was steering an LGV the length and breadth or the UK, Europe and beyond.
The 3291 course programme has been devised by drivers for drivers, and its aims have always been to clearly provide the theoretical underpinning knowledge required for a modern-day professional LGV driver.
I was a bit dismayed to read that one of the criticisms raised is that the programme does not cover the restraint of loads. when Unit 003 is clearly titled 'Vehicle Weights and Restraints'. Candidates are taught the theory of restraint and, for example, restraining methods right down to the correct type and ply of rope Louse, the amount of strands it should have and the minimum thickness required.
Beyond the normal criteria of QA and Skills for Logistics approval, the course content and test bank standards have been ratified by The City and Guilds transport verification team, including the senior verifier to the Dangerous Goods by Road qualification, all of whom are current or previous LGV licence holders.
As to the other issues raised by your reader, this can easily be solved by visiting the following City and Guilds web site and entering the course number 3291.
The underpinning knowledge to each unit may be viewed or downloaded and studied in furl her depth: http://www.cityandguilds.com/plslcg2/pkg.. cg_resource.pre_main I do, however, wholeheartedly agree with your reader's assumption that many LGV training programmes have been devised by someone who wouldn't know a truck even if it hit them at great speed. City and Guilds 3291 clearly does not fall into this category.
David Scott-Smith Eurosafe Training