SIGNS OF A TRAINING LAPSE
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At last week's seminar organized by the Freight Transport Association and at this week's Conference organized by the Industrial Transport Association the underlying theme has been that transport management is now very much a part of higher management structure. This very much follows the pattern set at last year's ITA conference when one speaker urged own-account transport managers to "knock on the boardroom door until your blood runs down the panels-.
However, transport managers must ask themselves whether knocking is enough to achieve recognition. How can a man virtually unqualified, save by experience, expect his worth to be fully recognized? It seems that the enthusiasm for education and training which was apparent last year is now waning. No doubt owing to the fact that the Government does not intend to implement the transport managers' licence legislation.
This year's ITA conference was less well supported than last year's. In part one of ITA's graduateship examination held in May only two candidates passed in all three subjects and the examiners generally complained of poor standards of scripts and results. Seminar companies report a noticeable falling off in registrations. Lack of support caused the National Guild of Transport Managers to cancel its annual conference. If, as these facts suggest, transport managers are losing interest in education and training they can hardly expect to become part of higher management structure or even that their feeble knocking on the boardroom door will be heard.