Training hgv drivers
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Could I crave your indulgence to allow me clarify one or two points in connection wi the training of heavy goods drivers as refern to ("Retrained class 3 men could ease dritâ– famine" February 26) in your excellent jot nal?
The system I have suggested, which understand from Capitol House, -hq of ti RTITB, has been taken up with the Depa ment of Employment, is as follows. 1$ experience as a trade union official for t Transport and General Workers' Union for long number of years gave me the knowled of the retraining system for a considerat number of industries through the vocatior training system of the Department of Emplc ment. The DEP gave six months' specializ training supported by subsistence paymen whereas the road transport industry w never allowed such a scheme and in fact do not require such sophisticated treatment.
In fact, the opposite is the case as r suggestion gives retraining at a fraction of tl cost. The system is that firms, particula those in a group training scheme, shot indent the group training officers of ests lished centres whose standard is well knot and who are subsidized from Governms circles for drivers to meet their present a forecasted needs. The centre would th apply for the Department of Employment submit to the training centre a number drivers signing the register who would then screened and trained for a period of, si three weeks, if found to be suitable, th passed to the industry as trained drivers. Ti would only call for the actual cost of t training which could be audited, plus t unemployment pay the man would norms be receiving, and the firm in question could then asked to pay a small fee direct to t Ministry. This would obviously, as outlin( give a service to the industry to meet needs without one penny being wasted.
I would invite all who can see the ser behind this suggestion to press their local h to bring it about. A final point I would wish make is that I am sure the industry woi benefit at a time like the present when th( is a surplus of personnel, instead of waitir as it always appears to have done, until th( is a shortage—which is in my view the e( nomics of a madhouse.
JACK WOC Group Training Offic Manchester Transport Training Gro4