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• The Road Transport Industry Training Board announced on Wednesday that it had paid £9.75m in the form of training grants for the first full training year which ended on July 31 1968. Levy income for the first year was £10.6m, although a further £800,000 is still due for payment.
New levy assessments based on 0.9 per cent of employers' pay rollshave recently been sent out by the RTITB—a total of £6.5m should be raised to cover the cost of training until July 1969.
At that time the Board will have collected nearly f174-m, of which more than f15-irn will have been repaid in training grants and the
balance devoted to a training advisory service, many direct training activities and a range of training facilities.
Haulage course starts Meanwhile on Monday the first course of its kind to be held in the Midlands was opened by the principal of Brornsgrove College of Further Education and the RTITB's Midlands manager, Mr. L V. Williamson. The course, attended by delegates from 20 haulage companies, is intended for transport managers and proprietors. Its aim is to increase the awareness of new business techniques and to improve profitability. It runs for six days in two sessions —January 20-22 and 27-29.