The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has labelled the government's plans to make eco-driving training mandatory as part of Driver CPC training "counterintuitive".
In response proposals made by the Department for Transport (DfT), the leading trade body recognised the need to encourage a great uptake of eco-driving training but said mandatory measures were not necessary.
James Firth, head of road freight and enforcement policy, said: "Making it mandatory could easily reduce it to a box-ticking exercise, replacing the far more effective way it is currently employed as an integral part of ongoing fleet fuel management."
Furthermore, the FTA has criticised the cost benefit analysis carried out by the DfT to justify its proposals.
"This proposal has been built on pretty shaky grounds and it seems to ignore the fact that industry has made huge in-roads into mitigating its carbon footprint already," Mr Firth continued.
Earlier this year the FTA urged caution over the government's proposal to hand transport planning decisions to local councils, saying it could have a negative impact on the UK's transport network.
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