ESTA’s new European Trailer Operator Licence (ETOL) for Modular Hydraulically Suspended Trailers – such as SPMTs – is taking shape and is on track to be finalised by the end of the year.
At the end of last year, the experts behind the project broadly agreed a three-tier training structure and a set of learning outcome documents that set out the scope of the training.
Now, they are currently working on a glossary of definitions across multiple languages to ensure common understanding, and have started work on the item bank – that is the list of questions for the examinations and the answers to go with them to ensure that an operator is fully competent.
The core three-tier training set up was given the go-ahead by the European Crane and Transport Operators’ Licence (ECTOL) Expert Committee. ECTOL is the body that oversees the operation of both ESTA’s European crane licence scheme (ECOL), as well as the new transport licence project (ETOL).