Merger planned for CIT and ITA
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• The Chartered Institute of Transport and the Industrial Transport Association will join forces to form a single body if the recommendations of a joint CIT /ITA committee are accepted by the councils of the two organizations.
This recommendation to merge, revealed this week, follows the announcement made in January 1971 that the two bodies had agreed to conduct formal talks on the possibility of further integration of their respective activities, after the arrangements which had been made in 1970 for Association students to sit the Institute's graduateship examination.
The move is also, says CIT, partly an outcome of the liaison which was built up during the long discussions in the Transport Managers' Licence Committee, and the Institute comments that the news should be welcomed by the many people in road freight transport who have complained about the multiplicity of educational bodies in the field. [It is wholeheartedly welcomed by CM— Ed].
The joint committee's recommendation of a merger will provide for the entry of ITA members into the CIT at appropriate levels and the' integration of the Association's divisions into the Institute's local sections. It is also intended that a Physical Distribution Study Society shall be formed in each local section of the CIT into which an ITA division is to be integrated, so as to ensure that within these societies there will be adequate facilities and opportunities for ITA members — who will initially form their main core — to continue to follow their common interests and activities.
The recommendation will also provide for the services of the ITA secretary, Mr Graham Douglas, to be retained in the new joint body.