Pictured above: Directors and some of the head office
staff at the TTC Group
Road safety experts from across the UK were given an "eye
opening" tour of a Shropshire organisation which is at the
forefront of driver retraining nationwide.
A total of 30 members of the Association of Industrial Road
Safety Officers saw how the TTC Group educates drivers to reduce
the national toll of road deaths and injuries.
They visited the Hadley Park HQ in Telford where thousands of
classes are organised at 148 nationwide venues each year making the
TTC Group the UK's largest provider of re-training courses for
motorists.
Team leaders explained how instructors teach safer driving
techniques on behalf of Police and councils in speed awareness,
drink drive rehabilitation as well as driver alertness courses for
motorists who commit minor offences.
Professional truck and van drivers receive statutory
qualifications in driver CPC training and company car drivers
update their skills in bespoke corporate driver training tailored
to a company's needs run by TTC Automotive, a part of the TTC
Group.
"The visit was quite an eye opener for many of our members who
didn't appreciate, without seeing it, the scale of TTC Group's
operation and the huge part they play nationally in running all of
these diversionary and other trainining courses," said Mr Graham
Feest, AIRSO secretary.
TTC road safety consultant Colin Pettener, a former county road
safety officer, said it was only the second time that AIRSO had
held one of its monthly meetings in Shropshire.
"It was an honour for us to host a meeting of this national
organisation who came to our county to listen to a number of
speakers so that they could share the latest information on road
safety," he said.
Speakers included TTC Automotive director Simon Baugh who talked
about the "disproportionate" and "increased" risks of driving for
work faced by small businesses and how TTC was working to raise
awareness in the corporate world.
Kevin Delaney, of the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM), and
former Airso chairman Lyn Morris also spoke at the event along with
TTC Group chairman Graham Wynn and Colin Pettener who talked about
the variety of driver retraining programmes.