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MORE THAN 5,000 people will be taking the examination ft Certificate of Professional Competence in May and there v more still for the October examination.
Department of Transport Road Freight Division principal David Scott-Malden told a conference in Maidenhead last week that, besides this number, most of the CPCeligible managers who wanted a certificate under "gr father rights" had applied.
But he warned that licer authorities were weeding what were thought tc spurious applications an cited one case where a .1 operator had applied on b of a 12-year-old schoo1bo3 Mr Scott-Malden said the CPC was not qualification that the Ti port Managers' Lic outlined in the 1968 Trait Act would have been.
"This is a basic hurdle t into the business, which sl that you have got the i knowledge for running a ness," he said, "but the was a highly professi qualification which w have been monitored 133 DTp. "But this would have rr • more manpower and licensing authority w have had to apportion bla a company came up on a tion 69 hearing betweer proprietor and the tran manager — the whole I would have been imme more complicated," saL Scott-Malden.