Training centre opens in Suffolk
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A NEW £100,000 training centre for both drivers and transport managers was opened at Mendlesham, Suffolk last week.
The new centre built on a former airfield has facilities to train both hgv drivers, car drivers and transport administrative staff for examinations including the transport managers' licence.
Opening the centre Road Transport Industry Training Board chairman Kenneth Turner said that the centre was an example of the self-help that the hoard set out to promote.
He said that RTITB had pumped £4.5 million into training venture subsidies in the last year to help finance some of the 118 training groups in Britain.
"Transport is one of the nation's major employers," said Mr Turner, "it employs one in six of the British working population.
"Since the war the image of haulage has been improved so that it is now recognised as a vital part of the British economy — and the training groups have played a large part in improving that image," he said.
The new centre has a fleet of ten vehicles including a coach and a double decker bus, tipper and articulated vehicle for use on training.
For managers the classrooms are equipped with audio visual aids including closed-circuit television.
Road Transport Training (Suffolk) Ltd started life in 1970 as the Suffolk Group Training Association before being incorporated as RTT in 1973.
Now it has 12 instructors trained at Motec and so far a pass rate that company chairman Herbert Taylor claims is unequalled in Britain.