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Learning fever
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Ten thousand people are expected to become hauliers in the next 12 months and many of them will go bankrupt within five years. One of the reasons for failure will be their inability to understand their accountants' jargon and their unwillingness to admit it. That is why the Road Transport Industry Training Board, at the request of the Road Haulage Association, has produced a child's guide to finance in which technical terms are translated into plain English. It is a splendidly professional job and is given a flying start by an imaginative cover.
This is one of a rash of new training ventures now under way. The RHA is planning a much-needed weekend course to teach the art of negotiating wages and conditions. It is a skill at which chess players should excel.
Roadline has revised its system of training drivers in the specialised work of collection and delivery to reduce from an average of three months to about a month the time required to make a trainee fully proficient_ A plastic covered concertina booklet containing six cards spelling out every aspect of a collection and delivery drivers' duties and responsibilities supplies the information. It has been so successful that Roadline may extend the technique to non-driving jobs.
Paul Keegan, KD coordinator in Ford's body plant at Halewood, is on sufficiently friendly terms with the tigers in Chester Zoo to pat the nose of Rajah, a huge Bengal cat.
Leyland should snap him up to tame their shop stewards.