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Rider take the reins of training specialists

Transport training company PTRC has a new chief. Andrew Forster caught up with John Rider to hear about his plans for the organisation

Andrew Forster
14 March 2011
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Many readers will be familiar with what PTRC does, but how many know what the initials actually stand for?

The company has made its name as an events and training organisation in the transport, highways and planning sectors. Its annual Transport Practitioners Meeting – in Liverpool this year – is marked on the calendars of scores of transport practitioners in government, consultancy and academia.

For years, the charismatic female double act of Andy Costain (chair) and Sally...

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