RHA wants lower levy
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• A reduction from 2 per cent to a maximum of 1.5 per cent in the rate of training levy in the road haulage sector has been proposed for the year 1973/74 by the Road Haulage Association in a memorandum to the Road Transport Industry Training Board. The value of a grant "point" for the road haulage sector in 1971/72 has been announced as £1.51. "There is no case for raising revenue in excess of requirements," says the RHA.
The option of disengagement is recommended for companies with established and approved training systems. One criterion for disengagement, says the RHA, should be the overall quality of a company's training system, and account should be taken of the company's honesty in its attempts to provide proper training. "Disengagement should not be denied because of failure in minor aspects of a company's training system."
Another recommendation is that progress should continue towards making motecs and mobile training units totally selffinancing.
Group Training Associations should continue to move towards self-support and this should be planned in consultation with the GTA National Advisory Committee. "It should be borne in mind," says the RHA, "that the Board has a moral obligation to continue to support GTAs, having given assurance of financial assistance during the groups' formative years."