Press for training, urges TRTA
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• A call for industrial company managements to bring pressure on the training boards for their industries is made in the December issue of Industrial Road Transport, the official journal of the Traders Road Transport Association. The pressure, says IRT, should be applied at policy level, and should be aimed at getting greater emphasis placed upon transport training.
The association feels that its fears about the results of not including own-account operators in the sphere of the Road Transport Industry Training Board—expressed when the board was set up—are being justified by events. It was felt that a comprehensive board offered a better prospect of stimulating transport training in the ownaccount field. Now it is found that while some boards are giving grants on a similar basis to the RTITB, some are not.
The IRT sees no justification for refusal of comparable grants for comparable training—even though the amount of grant might have to vary to reflect the variations in levies from board to board.
The TRTA is taking the matter up with the training boards, but makes the point that transport training will ultimately get whatever degree of priority the companies themselves want for it—so long as they speak up. And in some cases, the association admits, training boards' concentration on grants for production activities probably reflects the views of the constituent companies.
This December issue of Industrial Road Transport is the last in its present form. To serve the new body of which TRTA will form the major constituent, the journal is to be renamed Freight, serving the Freight Transport Association.
Freight will continue monthly to provide the information for own-account operators given by its predecessor, but will additionally contain information on all other aspects of industrial distribution and transport and, in particular, news of transport services by land, sea and air.