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MUST admit that as well as aing tired of paying a levy to le RTITB (something like £4,000 date) for nil return I am also sitting tired of reading in CM pout its value to the industry.
It may be valuable to the irger firms in haulage and in assenger transport, but I can't )1. the life of me see what good can be to the smaller cornany. We can hardly spare our .ansport manager, or our fitter, r his apprentice, for their holiays let alone send them on ourses.
It always appears to me that coach operating in a smallish way is mostly about dedication, about working unsocial hours, and about not expecting the earth for working these unsocial hours.
I can't imagine that the people concerned with the RTITB can tell us very much about that. Apparently our fitter can't either, since when we asked him if we should send his new apprentice on a day release course his reply was: "Certainly — if you can find an instructor who has changed a diff on the Yorkshire Moors on a wet and windy night."
This government has often talked about help to smaller firms. One way it could help is to release those of us with less than 25 employees from paying levy to the RTITB or better still make membership voluntary. ALBERT WALLS Walls Motor Tours Ltd Wigan, Lancashire