To be fair I was at least well aware of the RTITB’s activities and role within the industry which was well established by 1975 at least since its inception almost a decade earlier notwithstanding the semantics of the yound driver scheme starts up date.But for some reason the school ‘careers advisor’ still hadn’t heard of the RTITB even then.
Fair enough descending the Alps wasn’t exactly the same thing as running from Macclesfield to Tamworth with an 8 wheeler but not that much different.
Gears to slow brakes to stop applies in all cases including cars on the flat, in the hills or in the Alps.
But if you’re right then it obviously would have been beneficial to have made the film all about the job and the truck with the involvement of the RTITB and an RTITB candidate chosen from its trainee in whatever form at that exact point, ranks fairly and squarely. Aimed at getting the relavant messages across to those new green drivers enthusiastically waiting their/our turn to enter the UK international transport sector.
Not telling us that we ain’t good enough and putting a bleedin TV sit com actor in the seat.
How did you expect the RTITB to be involved in this film and what would have been the financial implications ie who would have to pay who to be “involved”
I hope it had another fuel tank on t’other side!
Or is that a reserve oil tank we see?
Jesus, here we go again! The school careers advisory service wouldn’t have needed to know about RTITB in 1974 (when the film was made) because the youth scheme was still two years in the future, as I clearly stated.
I disagree. We have short sharp nasty hills here that are quite unlike the long winding descents found in Europe and beyond. When I first passed my test I was offered a trip to Italy in an artic with a local firm and the boss asked me what I knew about driving in the mountains. I gave more or less the expanation you’ve just given. Needless to say, I didn’t get the job.
The scheme came in two years after the film.
I would guess it was a small replacement tank it was only used for very local work and had been refurbished
Les out of a matter of interest who was the local firm who had a International vacancy and were they Cornish, I am curious as I took HGV lessons with RTITB out of Grose’s yard in St Austell 1973 took my test in Redruth after two weeks training and that formed my career, cheers Buzzer
The firm was in Kent and it was not a vacancy, they just wanted me to do a run as holiday relief.
The RTITB I think ran the National Joint Training Committee which started training 18-year-olds, rather than 21-yr-olds sometime after Sept '76.
Even the school knew his face wouldn’t fit. 
Fuel industry workshop?
I wondered that. Or it may be a tank refurbishing yard.
I was wondering the same as @star_down_under and @les_sylphides
One of the trucks in the foreground seems to have some bit of kit casually thrown in the cab?
Is it a workshop?
Or breakers yard for Haz tanks? Tanks on the ground and bare chassis in the backgroiund.
That was on the outskirts of Bradford .Idle i think not far from Jowett then International Harvesters … but i could be wrong Butterfields???
The tanker photo appeared in colin wrights " trucks in Britain vol5 tankers" book. Its
Yorkshire engineering and welding company (yewco) Idle nr Shipley West Yorkshire 1965.
Couple of 1964 Vauxhall Victor cars and a Hillman Husky.
Radiator blind, similar to the one on the AEC next to it?