First RTITB vehicle presented
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• The first commercial vehicle to be bought by the Road Transport Training Board and supplied to hauliers under the grant scheme for driver training has been presented to the Burnley. Colne and Nelson Road Haulage Group Training Scheme.
On Tuesday Mr. K.C. Turner, chairman of the Board and Mr. E. Tindall, the directorgeneral, travelled to Lancashire for the handing over ceremony. The vehicle, which is a Bedford KN 16-ton-gross rigid was accepted by Mr. W. Hudson of Stanworth's Transport Ltd., Burnley, the group's chairman, Stanworth's is one of the 10 companies taking part in the scheme.
The vehicle, which is plated is 22ft 6in long. It has an Eaton two-speed axle, is in RTITB livery and will be under the control of Mr. J. Murphy, the group's heavy goods vehicle training instructor, Mr. Murphy has just returned from an instruction course at the Board's Wembley headquarters.
Four drivers will be put through on each fortnightly course and it is hoped that some 100 men will be trained annually. The scheme, the first co-operative training group among hauliers in the country, was described in CM June 28 1968.
Also present was Mr, H. M. Floyd, the Board's North Western training manager who has been responsible for guiding the north east Lancashire hauliers through the early stages of their scheme.
• Newcastle on Tyne Corporation has received Government permission to go ahead with the city's proposed £10m east central motorway which will by-pass Newcastle's main shopping centre. Work is due to begin in April 1970. The six-lane motorway will start at Pilgrim Street Roundabout on Al, turn east and rejoin Al at Park Terrace on the outskirts of Newcastle.
• Southern Counties Car Auctions Ltd. is to open its 10th auction centre at a 41 acre site at Old Trafford. Manchester. Mr Bryan P. Curtis, former]," fleet sales director of the group, has been appointed local director. Opening day is likely to be October 9.