Hgv instructors get together on national basis
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• The Institute of Heavy Goods Drivin Instructors, established previously in onl four of the 11 traffic areas set up under th 1968 Act, is to launch itself on a natio scale. This plan was unanimously adopte at a meeting in Nottingham attended b hgsi instructor delegates from areas as apart as Northern Ireland and the South England who voted to establish th Institute as a professional body with possible membership at the present time 1200, all paying an annual £5 fee.
The first general secretary of the ne body, which is already looking at itself i terms of Britain's entry into Europe an aims to be the forerunner of an EE Driving Instructors' body, is Mr Alan Flee a holder of the Advanced Certificate and a expert in learner driving instruction f potential hgv drivers. Mr Fleet is also lecturer in advance studies at Wharfeda College of Further Education and is an h gold star driving examiner for the Lee Transport Training Group.
The first chairman of the Institute is Charles Warren who, although a Londone is chief hgv driving instructor to Manchest Transport Training Group. While the rul of the body, which is not to be a union be a professional group, were unanimousl adopted, the meeting voted on to the corr mittee delegates from other traffic area which have not so far set up branches.
Of the £5 annual fee, is to be ri directed to the setting up of these brancht on a membership basis. The newly appoin ed assistant secretary, Mr David Soy also from the North-Western traffic are; told me after the meetinithat CM had be responsible for the original idea to set r the Institute on a national basis. A lent written from the Leeds and Manchest, areas, published in CM over a year ag brought so many replies from .hgv drivir instructors throughout the country that th had presented itself as a practical idea. G.'