DISENCHANTED Like A Robertson (CM 410 May), I obtained my
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CPC by my own efforts and expense. This letter was just like looking at my own transport career.
I was 12 years in first line management and felt the time was right to move on to transport manager and, just like A Robertson, owing to financial problems I am now back with my old firm as a driver having lost 15 years' service.
A Robertson asks about transport education and training. Well, there are two very fine institutes that supply such education; the Chartered Institute of Transport (C1T) and the Institute of Transport Administration (IoTA). I am an associate member of both.
Perhaps if more managers, owners and directors were not so blinkered and set in their old-fashioned ways and took more interest in employing staff who eat, sleep and breath transport and give up their spare time to educate them selves, the transport industry could benefit.
Having suffered a lot of disappointments in the past when applying for vacancies, even with four CPC, AM CIT, AM IoTA and 29 years in transport (rail, road haulage and passenger industry), it would seem unless you are a young whizzkid straight out of university with a string of degrees, but no experience, or you are the blue-eyed boss's boy you are unlikely to find success.
Is it any wonder that our transport system is in such a state with such a lot of inexperience at the wheel?
Jas M Menzies Dunfermline, Fsfe.