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take on the CPC exam is rather different. He thinks it's too easy and would welcome better training or tougher testing. "I took mine after a one-week residential course. I started on the Monday and took the exam on the Friday lunchtime and it was not that difficult," he says.
"Someone with a fairly limited knowledge of transport could take that exam. I'd like to see it made harder.'
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But setting a limit on fleet numbers for part-time managers is not a good solution, he feels. The issue, he believes, is where the fleets are, rather than their size: "I managed two fleets at the same time and I was also a dangerous goods safety adviser to another firm. One company had about 100 trucks, the other had 20.
"But they were within half a mile of each other and I saw them both every single day. It was not a problem because they were so close together. It's got to be based more on the geography of those fleets."