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continued from page 5 finding accommodation.
The objective of dealers' workshops will be to return vehicles to customers within one hour of the manufacturer's standard servicing or repair times measured through its monitoring system TrukTrak.
Dealers must evolve towards a 24-hour, seven-day working week.
Parts with three movements each year must be stocked to provide at least 90% parts availability to workshop.
Dealers must adopt the sponsored apprenticeship programme and employ indentured apprenticeships to at least 15% of the technicians employed.
Dealers are now required to promote the FM10,000 contract maintenance scheme to effect cost-effective preventive maintenance.
"This is the dealers' scheme and they will do everything to make it a success," says John Lee, "keeping us informed with monthly activity reports.
"They will be conducting regular customer visits and satisfaction surveys, to put Renault further ahead of our competitors." • Renault Truck Industries is starting a Sponsored Workshop Apprenticeship Programme — and backing it with reasons for choosing road transport as a career with literature addressed to schools and young people.
There are now nearly three million trucks on European roads, manufactured by 15 truck manufacturers, and with factories in France, UK, Spain and the USA, Renault is one of the top three manufacturers in the world, it says.
Truck operators are required by law to obtain and satisfy the conditions of an operator's licence, and vehicles must be maintained by trained and competent staff. An apprenticeship as a truck technician and the award of a National Craft Certificate provide the first steps on the ladder to secure, longterm employment, as: workshop technician; workshop foreman; fleet engineer; distribution manager: director on the board; and transport entrepreneur. Renault offers a three-year indentured apprenticeship sponsored by RVI and a main dealer, normally written on leaving school between the ages of 16 and 18. Training by RVI takes three forms: First • Induction; product training • Design engineering and manufacturing overview with visits to plants in the UK and France • Renault certification to supplement the National Craft Certificates Second • College day-release and evening classes, with options; City and Guilds three-year course leading to National Craft Certificate Business and Technical Education Council leading to BTEC National Award (the old Ordinary National Certificate) In addition, high performers may opt for the Higher National Award Third • Job experience At the end of each successful year Renault will contribute 2100-worth of tools, and an endowment annuity is payable to successful apprentices at either seven or 10 years from date of hire.
Candidates should apply to Renault at Boscombe Road, Dunstable, Bedfordshire LU5 4LX, who will arrange entry tests on reading; numeracy; intelligence; logic; and physical dexterity. Most local colleges require good GCSE results as a pre-entry requisite for truck technician courses.