Rjan:
The real problem for drivers is not the classroom work. The problem is not being paid to spend a week in the classroom.
Or for…
Agency men, effectively losing two weeks money. One by having to pay for the courses and two for the week of lost work.
Ohhh…
Two weeks lost? Over 5 years, yes. But it is only one day training per year isn’t it?
And some employed drivers do get paid for sitting there. A cost self employed should be aware of it’s true.
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Ed. Sorry self employed, should read agency
I emailed the RHA this morning telling them they were unfit for purpose, should be ashamed of themselves etc etc and got this reply……
Hello Paul
Many thanks for your enquiry via our RHA website.
Please see below our press release regarding this matter:
RHA categorically denies accusations of creating fuel supply panic
The RHA wants to make it clear that it completely refutes the Mail on Sunday’s version of events.
26th September 2021 10:06 AM
Firstly, Rod McKenzie was not in the meeting where the BP issue was discussed.
Secondly, he is not the source of the leak. The first he heard of the comments was when journalists rang him asking for comment after ITV News story had been broadcast. He was not, as the Government source claimed, “aware of the comments” and certainly did not “weaponise” them in subsequent TV interviews. Indeed he repeatedly stressed the need not to panic buy and that there were adequate fuel stocks.
It is also completely untrue to say that the “RHA leaks every meeting we have with them” .
The RHA believes this disgraceful attack on a member of its staff is an attempt to divert attention away from their recent handling of the driver shortage crisis.
Night-and-day:
I emailed the RHA this morning telling them they were unfit for purpose, should be ashamed of themselves etc etc and got this reply……
Hello Paul
Many thanks for your enquiry via our RHA website.
Please see below our press release regarding this matter:
RHA categorically denies accusations of creating fuel supply panic
The RHA wants to make it clear that it completely refutes the Mail on Sunday’s version of events.
26th September 2021 10:06 AM
Firstly, Rod McKenzie was not in the meeting where the BP issue was discussed.
Secondly, he is not the source of the leak. The first he heard of the comments was when journalists rang him asking for comment after ITV News story had been broadcast. He was not, as the Government source claimed, “aware of the comments” and certainly did not “weaponise” them in subsequent TV interviews. Indeed he repeatedly stressed the need not to panic buy and that there were adequate fuel stocks.
It is also completely untrue to say that the “RHA leaks every meeting we have with them” .
The RHA believes this disgraceful attack on a member of its staff is an attempt to divert attention away from their recent handling of the driver shortage crisis.
Night-and-day:
I emailed the RHA this morning telling them they were unfit for purpose, should be ashamed of themselves etc etc and got this reply……
Hello Paul
Many thanks for your enquiry via our RHA website.
Please see below our press release regarding this matter:
RHA categorically denies accusations of creating fuel supply panic
The RHA wants to make it clear that it completely refutes the Mail on Sunday’s version of events.
26th September 2021 10:06 AM
Firstly, Rod McKenzie was not in the meeting where the BP issue was discussed.
Secondly, he is not the source of the leak. The first he heard of the comments was when journalists rang him asking for comment after ITV News story had been broadcast. He was not, as the Government source claimed, “aware of the comments” and certainly did not “weaponise” them in subsequent TV interviews. Indeed he repeatedly stressed the need not to panic buy and that there were adequate fuel stocks.
It is also completely untrue to say that the “RHA leaks every meeting we have with them” .
The RHA believes this disgraceful attack on a member of its staff is an attempt to divert attention away from their recent handling of the driver shortage crisis.
Kind Regards,
Thats all it would/has take to induce panic buying, they would of been better keeping quite.
Night-and-day:
I emailed the RHA this morning telling them they were unfit for purpose, should be ashamed of themselves etc etc and got this reply……
Hello Paul
Many thanks for your enquiry via our RHA website.
Please see below our press release regarding this matter:
RHA categorically denies accusations of creating fuel supply panic
The RHA wants to make it clear that it completely refutes the Mail on Sunday’s version of events.
26th September 2021 10:06 AM
Firstly, Rod McKenzie was not in the meeting where the BP issue was discussed.
Secondly, he is not the source of the leak. The first he heard of the comments was when journalists rang him asking for comment after ITV News story had been broadcast. He was not, as the Government source claimed, “aware of the comments” and certainly did not “weaponise” them in subsequent TV interviews. Indeed he repeatedly stressed the need not to panic buy and that there were adequate fuel stocks.
It is also completely untrue to say that the “RHA leaks every meeting we have with them” .
The RHA believes this disgraceful attack on a member of its staff is an attempt to divert attention away from their recent handling of the driver shortage crisis.
Kind Regards,
Problem is they put this out on there Twitter feed yesterday after Grant Shapps did the news interview,Shapps never named which association it was,they were a little too quick to deny it which of course makes them look stupid,the Petroleum guy has also said this morning that a whistle blower leaked the contents of a private meeting and caused this,he also refused to name the guilty party but I can see some proof being provided by mid-week if it’s going to prove a point…
Sidevalve:
Latest utterance from Rod McKenzie; copied from a Daily Telegraph article.
"Rod McKenzie, the managing director of policy and public affairs at the Road Haulage Association, argued that “too much classroom stuff and not enough driving” has deterred some drivers from wanting to return to the sector.
“If you tell them they can come back into the industry but have to spend five days in the classroom getting up to speed and getting new qualifications… a lot of people have left the industry for that very reason,” he said."
I’m sure a lot of drivers might be tempted to agree with that. But wasn’t it the RHA who were one of the champions of DCPC when it first came out, arguing that it would raise standards in the industry?
For the record, I believe that whilst DCPC is clumsy and flawed, this is largely down to the set ways in which the timeframe is administered; basically you could either pack more into one course or combine some of them and perhaps reduce it to three days. or even have the drivers’ hours and tacho course as a mandatory one day starter, then able to drive conditional on the others being completed within say a year. Having said that, I’ve experienced enough drivers with only rudimentary (and frequently flawed) knowledge of Drivers Hours regs to be convinced that some sort of refresher training is essential. The number of posts on here asking basic questions which should be second nature, underlines this.
The real problem for drivers is not the classroom work. The problem is not being paid to spend a week in the classroom.
Night-and-day:
I emailed the RHA this morning telling them they were unfit for purpose, should be ashamed of themselves etc etc and got this reply……
Hello Paul
Many thanks for your enquiry via our RHA website.
Please see below our press release regarding this matter:
RHA categorically denies accusations of creating fuel supply panic
The RHA wants to make it clear that it completely refutes the Mail on Sunday’s version of events.
26th September 2021 10:06 AM
Firstly, Rod McKenzie was not in the meeting where the BP issue was discussed.
Secondly, he is not the source of the leak. The first he heard of the comments was when journalists rang him asking for comment after ITV News story had been broadcast. He was not, as the Government source claimed, “aware of the comments” and certainly did not “weaponise” them in subsequent TV interviews. Indeed he repeatedly stressed the need not to panic buy and that there were adequate fuel stocks.
It is also completely untrue to say that the “RHA leaks every meeting we have with them” .
The RHA believes this disgraceful attack on a member of its staff is an attempt to divert attention away from their recent handling of the driver shortage crisis.
Kind Regards,
Much the same has been put on their website.
The RHA wants to make it clear that it completely refutes the Mail on Sunday’s version of events.
Firstly, Rod McKenzie was not in the meeting where the BP issue was discussed.
Secondly, he is not the source of the leak. The first he heard of the comments was when journalists rang him asking for comment after ITV News story had been broadcast. He was not, as the Government source claimed, “aware of the comments” and certainly did not “weaponise” them in subsequent TV interviews.
Indeed he repeatedly stressed the need not to panic buy and that there were adequate fuel stocks.
It is also completely untrue to say that the “RHA leaks every meeting we have with them”.
The RHA believes this disgraceful attack on a member of its staff is an attempt to divert attention away from their recent handling of the driver shortage crisis.
