Trade and train
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WHATEVER the fate of the Road Transport Industry Training Board, and its future is still very much in the balance, the industry must, albeit grudgingly, pay it due credit. No one can dispute that without the RTITB the vast majority of transport operatives would not have received any formal training. Of course there was a small group of employers who trained staff before RTITB was conceived; they will continue to do so if the Board is axed.
It would be a pity if RTITB was not to continue to operate in some role, but it could very easily fall victim of the cold winds of the economic climate. Yet it need not. There has always been a love-hate relationship between RHA and RTITB, principally because a succession of RHA chairmen chose to make the RTITB their personal Aunt Sally.
Although the present RHA chairman has already expressed his "anti" RTITB opinion, he could make his name by encouraging his Association to do more and talk less about RTITB.
Is it beyond the wit of RHA to absorb RTITB as its training wing and sell its services at a trading profit. No doubt we'll be told that it is outside the RHA Articles of Association to trade or train.
Our advice is change the Articles and explore the possibilities.