Car to h.g.v.
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• Thirty-eight drivers whose ages range from 21 to 53 and whose occupations range from furniture porters to garage fitters have passed the h.g.v. driving test after undergoing Special courses at the RTITB's Motec. As a check on the Board's training recommendations, four courses were run in September and October for 41 "guinea-pigs". Two courses were aimed at converting car drivers to rigid trucks of up to 22 tons gross and two to convert car drivers to artics of up to 32 tons.
An average of 80 hours per man was needed to train the rigid drivers and 105 hours was needed to train drivers to handle artics. Both categories had 14 hours theoretical instruction, plus periods of driving practice and in-cab observation which varied from 32 hours in rigids to 441 hours in artics,