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Scots will invest in traps
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• Scotland's slice of the Road Haulage Modernisation Fund will be spent on retrofitting particulate traps and training initiatives, the Scottish Executive agreed last week. The executive would not confirm if Scotland would receive its full £.8.2m share of the £100m fund over the not three years but agreed that Lim would go towards retrofitting particulate traps.
It is also keen to plough money into fuel economy training and driver training schemes for young people, according to Freight Transport Association Scottish regional director Bob Armstrong. 'Aithough the executive wouldn't confirm we would receive the full £8.2m it didn't say we wouldn't either" he says.
Armstrong attended the meeting with representatives of other interested parties including the Road Haulage Association and the Road Haulage & Distribution Training Council. The executive awarded the RHDTC 1.80,000 to fund an Adult numeracy and literacy project in a bid to develop sector-specific learning materials for hauliers and drivers.
Scotland's push fellows Wales' decision to make 1750,000 available from its allocation to encourage operators to run cleaner vehicles (CM 21 Marche Welsh hauliers will be able to apply for a grant of up to 73% towards the cost of fitting particulate traps or converting their trucks to gas.