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Managing director Paul Arthurton Transport Attleborough, Norfolk Paul Arthurton fears the directive is

-„indamentally flawed and doomed to fail in its objective of enticing youngsters into the ndustry by providing a recognised qualification.

You take someone who's at school dreaming of being a bank manager," says Arthurton. "They're not going to change their mind and become a lorry driver instead lust because they suddenly have to do a CPC," As for periodic training, it has the potential to ostracise older drivers, he fears.

"Anyone who has been driving for years isn't going to take well to sitting in a classroom being told how to do their job. They will just leave the industry.

"The other thing is, what about drivers like me who already have a transport manager's CPC? I've already got a CPC so why should I have to have another one?"

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