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• Radical proposals to streamline the way hauliers pay for training, given an overwhelming thumbs down by training associations and trade associations, have been dropped by the Road Transport Industry Training Board.
The latest RTITB discussion document, based on its Future Options for Encouraging Training in Road Transport, suggested a number of major revisions to the method of paying for training (CM, November 1, 1986). These included the phasing out of specific grants in a direct payment system to training groups, which would then supply training to
operators free of charge, or at a reduced rate.
Following a hostile reaction to the proposals — particularly from the RHA — the RTITB's industrial council recommended that they be dropped.
According to RTITB direc
tor general David Barnett, although there were "some favourable reactions, obviously a far greater number thought we should leave things as they are". Barnett says that all the proposals raised in Future Options have now been dropped — and they will not surface again in the board's next discussion document due out in the autumn.
Barnett says that following the introduction of new training schemes, including modular training (CM, May 31, 1986), operators have been reluctant to take on any more changes of the kind put forward in Future Options, although if there is sufficient interest frtim the industry over the next, two to three years the RTITB could revive them.