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RTITB registers
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• The Government's dogged refusal to introduce compulsory registration for HGV driving instructors has prompted the Road Transport Industry Training Board to launch a campaign to heighten public awareness of industry training.
The RTITB has re-vamped its 25-year-old national registration scheme for instructors: the new scheme will be unveiled this weekend at Commercial Motor Truckfest '90 (see page 72).
"The RTITB has tried to convince government ministers that HGV instructors ought to be on a similar footing to car schools," says John Rhodes, RTITB field regional officer, "but they won't hear of it. So we have decided to go it alone and raise the profile of our existing voluntary register. Therefore the public will become aware of how some instructors are training drivers correctly and how others are
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The relaunch will include the publication of the RTITB's register of instructors; vehicle stickers for registered HGV instructors; and National Council of Vocational Qualification recognition for instructors who pass the entrance test.
Rod Jenkins, manager for employment affairs at the RHA, "unreservedly supports" the RTITB initiative. "We are interested in raising the image of professional drivers," he says. "We feel the only way to do this is for HGV instructors to come under the same laws as car and motorcyclists."
Jenkins says the RHA is still pushing the Government to consider a compulsory register of instructors either by individual, as with car instructors, or by approved schools, which is used in motorcycle training.
A number of the country's leading HGV driving schools agree that only a compulsory register of HGV instructors will rid the industry of its noto