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• Eurosafe Training has launched a driver training programme for the unemployed in a bid to combat the driver shortage.
Under the government's New Deal scheme the company aims to get people aged 18-24 back to work by offering them up to 26 weeks' training in all the skills required to be a professional driver.
It hopes that about 50 candidates will benefit from the project within the next year.
Any employer taking on a Eurosafe trainee can apply for training and employment subsidies. One firm already using Eurosafe drivers is Doverbased Nagel Logistics. Personnel director Colin Snape says: "If we need a driver we alway go to Eurosafe first because thr driver has a much more in depth training than just licence. They learn abou tachographs, fork-lift drivim and also first aid.
'When they come to us the are double manned for the firs three months with our drivers_ there is extra money they ma receive more training paid for by us or by the New Dea enabling them to take their nexi licence." he adds.
• Kingsford, West Midlandsbased training firm KITS is running a pilot scheme with local schools to provide pupils with an introduction to all aspects of road transport.