RTITB plays it safe on training
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• Proposals to introduce radical changes in the way hauliers pay for training will not be included in a Road Transport Industry Training Board discussion document due for publication in the autumn.
The controversial revisions, first mooted by the board last year, were rejected by training and trade associations. The RTITB proposals included the phasing out of specific grants, to be replaced with a direct payment system to training organisations, who would then provide training to operators at a reduced rate.
Now RTITB director general David Barnett says that no radical plans to alter training are likely to be put to the industry in the foreseeable future.
"As far as we are concerned the issue is over, and will not be brought up again unless there is a significant groundswell of opinion for change," he says.