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Sept/Oct 2003
Web site aims to help with driver retention
Recruiting, training and retaining lorry drivers is the objective of a new Web site, www.respectforpeople.org, which went live this summer. It is designed to underpin the message of a wider Respect for People programme being mounted by the Department for Transport with funding from its Road Haulage Modernisation Fund. Part of the objective is to help contend with a growing crisis arising from the shortage of lorry drivers. The Government's Road Haulage Forum is predicting that by 2010 there will be a demand for 600,000 lorry drivers. There are now around 500,000, and it predicts that 80,000 extra drivers will be required to plug the gap left by natural wastage. Among participants in the Respect for People project are management consultancies Indecon (which has developed a benchmarking tool called BenchNET) and Key3 Partners.
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