Lift truck scheme jack up costs
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I WAS MORE than surprised to learn that one of the Freight Transport Association's member companies had up to 3,000 forklift truck drivers. It is not difficult, therefore, to understand the association's opposition to the National Industrial Truck Training and Certification Council's scheme to register and monitor details of lift truck drivers' training at E2 a head for existing operatives and £10 for each new driver.
To those figures must be added the cost of administration, which for a big company would be substantial. There are better ways of reducing unemployment than to create unproductive clerical jobs.
Maybe the lifts made in an average year by fork trucks, if laid end to end, would stretch to the moon and back. Perhaps the annual output of manufactured pie hoisted to the sky by fork trucks would cover Lincolnshire. Either way, I don't care. The information is as superfluous as the registration scheme.