Faced with a recruitment crisis, one of the solutions to bring fresh faces into the industry is to ‘do it yourself’.
The ‘it’ in DIY refers to hiring and then training people inhouse.
TIP Group set up its own academy to put newly hired people through an intensive nine-month course for repairing and maintaining trailers.
The self-funded academy to train the next generation of trailer mechanics has just seen its first recruits graduate and Transport News editor Kevin Swallow met the ‘newbies’, who come from all walks of life and across a broad spectrum of ages.
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