12th March 2012, 07:31 PM
kevin wooldridge Wrote:As there is a 'ridiculously small percentage of diggers who have learnt to drive', I wonder why archaeological employers don't treat this as a training requirement and pay staff who are willing to learn, something towards the cost of lessons. Seems to me it would be a sound investment...
I would imagine that most staff are on projects that are less than 6 months in length, and most archaeology firms probably don't have a spare few grand to pay for lessons for staff that will soon be gone depending on the order books. And outside of the big smoke, driving is regarded as more of a life skil. I certainly couldn't manage without a car in the happy countryside