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'Chaos' warning hits hazardous training

17th June 1993, Page 7
17th June 1993
Page 7
Page 7, 17th June 1993 — 'Chaos' warning hits hazardous training
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

• The Freight Transport Association and Road Haulage Association are warning that dangerous goods driver training could collapse into chaos as the proposed harmonisation of dangerous-load rules forces many more drivers into the classroom.

Details of the proposed ADR harmonisation directive are not known so it is too early to gauge how long it will take to train drivers, say the associations.

Frank Tristram, the ETA's manager of hazardous cargo services, says: "The training of the 90,000 drivers to the new vocational standards means we are already going to be stretched.

"This figure does not take ADR into account, which means that more drivers are going to be brought into dangerous goods transport controls," he concludes.