Imperfect relations
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Road transport has competent budding operators, economists and communicators but cannot be complacent about their ability to calculate, negotiate or plan. That's an over-simplification but it is the sort of feeling I get from looking through the comments on this years' papers in the RSA road transport exams.
Mind you, one can't entirely blame them. We are told that "some candidates confused a tare-entry closed shop with an Agency Shop or post-entry shop."
Still, in the economics section we read "most answers were accurate and of a good standard," while report writing drew the comment : "A few answers . .. went into far too much detail, giving a blow-by-blow account of the imagined offence."
Not that violence on the buses was thoroughly understood. I quote : "Some candidates thought that fitting radios to buses meant providing entertainment to passengers."