5-year plan for RTITB
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• The RTITB has published a booklet outlining its five-year plan, designed to meet the forecast needs of the industry for skilled manpower. The booklet shows the principal objectives, the targets which the Board has set itself and the key areas in which it expects to achieve its results.
Under the plan the Board expects to achieve a fiscal balance by March 19'73 and by July 1976 expects to have issued training material covering all the main categories of employees in road transport. These training specifications, the Board expects, should stand as the whole blueprint for the industry well into the 1980s.
The Board forecasts that by the end of July 1976 an annual average of 20,000 drivers will receive Board approved hgv initial training and a further 30,000 will receive approved refresher or conversion training. The requirement for hgv driver training places is expected to reach 2000 by 1976 whereas at present there are only 800 places.
The current arrangements for psv drivers training and for management and supervisory staff are adequate. By the end of July 1976 the Board expects 60 per cent of all managerial and supervisory staff employed in the industry as at August 1 1971 to have had some form of approved training. Also by this date all managers involved in the training plan concept will have Board recommended job descriptions, an annual total of 500 new graduates will be recruited to the industry and an average total of 5000 newly appointed managerial staff will receive Board approved training.