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Eric Tindal answers 'waffle charge
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• The Road Transport Industry Training Board director-general, Mr. Eric Tindall, invited operators to, "push their way through the system at Capitol House" if they were dissatisfied with the line of communications. The invitation was made at the inaugural meeting of the Suffolk Road Haulage Association Group Training Association last week.
Mr. Tindall was answering a criticism made earlier by the group's chairman, Mr. H. Taylor. who had said that too much time was being wasted by both the Board and the operators because of the RTITB's reluctance to answer letters. "When we do get a reply," said Mr. Taylor, "it is invariably waffle." Mr. Tindall commented that if this was a general feeling then the operators should get to the top administration at Board headquarters and have the subject discussed by the Board members. Over 250 people attended the meeting at which Esso Petroleum presented three lecturettes on planned maintenance and costs. Mr. David Boucher, of the Esso Petroleum Eastern region, when dealing with maintenance costs, suggested that operators should use C/Ws Tables of Operating Costs as a guide. The Suffolk group has 46 member companies and since it was formed before the RTITB edict that group training officers should become Board employees on secondmcnt, it will be unaffected in this respect. Mr. Taylor visualized the activities of the group extending beyond the training concept. He said that he was convinced that many members wanted a group maintenance scheme. "We cannot afford costly maintenance facilities at each of our depots, but by pooling our resources and centralizing our facilities we can perhaps improve our standards and most certainly reduce our costs." Other activities in which the group could eventually become involved were guarded lorry parks, motels and operators' clubs--"Much in the same way as is being done in the USA," said Mr. Taylor. He saw this being organized in conjunction with sub-areas of the Road Haulage Association.