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an introduction to IoTA
(The Institute of Transport Administration)
IoTA is a professional membership organisation that represents some 4,000 individuals and firms within all spheres of the transport industry in both the United Kingdom and overseas. It supports and encourages efficient transport management and is committed to the ongoing growth and development of its members through specialist knowledge-sharing and the provision and promotion of educational programmes.
its history
its aims and objectives
Founded in 1944 the Institute of Traffic Administration, as it was then called, was formed to serve an emerging requirement for transport administrators. By retaining a membership of both active and retired senior industry figures, it has successfully maintained a history of meeting the needs of its members by continual observation of its policies, which include:
The Institute has grown over the years and, in addition to several Centres throughout the UK, overseas membership is available and the Institute is particularly active in Hong Kong and West Africa.
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The Institute's President: Dr Michael Asteris FInstTA
Michael Asteris was elected President at the 61st Annual General Meeting of the Institute of Transport Administration held in April 2006. He is the 12th holder of the office.
Dr Asteris, an economist at the University of Portsmouth, was born in South Wales and educated at the Universities of London (BSc Econ), Reading (Dip Ed), Birmingham, (M.Soc.Sc) and Brunel (PhD). He has been closely associated with the work of the Institute for many years having been Chief Examiner in Economics and an IoTA representative on several outside bodies. He was made a Fellow in 1989 and gave the Keynote Address at the Diamond Jubilee Conference in 2004.
Michael has authored more than 50 publications in transport and defence, and has presented many papers on these subjects at conferences held in Britain and overseas. He gave the Lord Trenchard Memorial Lecture at RAF Cranwell in 1996. Together with Wing Commander Peter Green, then Director of the Institute, he edited Contemporary Transport Trends. This 300 page book made available a selection of articles on road, rail, sea and air which had appeared in the Institute's Journal, Transport Management, from the late 1950s onwards. Dr Asteris is a member of the Transport Economists' Group, The Maritime Economists' Forum and the Royal United Services Institute. For many years, he has been a regular contributor on economic matters for regional radio, television and the press.
During his period in office, Dr Asteris is anxious to raise the profile of the Institute both as an educational body and in terms of making its collective views known on issues which directly affect its members.
The Institute's Deputy President Alan Whittington FInstTA
Alan entered the transport industry in 1972 at the age of 21 as a bus driver for National Bus Company subsidiary, London Country Bus Services. Studying and passing the IoTA examinations at Thurrock Technical College assisted a rapid series of promotions. In 1978 he was invited back to the college as a visiting lecturer to teach the new Transport Managers’ Certificate of Professional Competence, thereby becoming one of the first people in the country to teach CPC courses. By the time he left National Bus in 1981 he had been through depot management to the position of Area Training Manager. There followed a number of senior managerial positions in the passenger and freight sectors of both the private and public sides of the industry until 1991 when he founded his own training and consultancy company which continues to provide advice and tuition to the industry.
Alan joined the Institute in 1976 and was elected a Fellow in 1993. He has served Essex Centre continuously from 1977 as a member of its Committee having been Education Officer, Programme Officer, National Council Representative, Vice Chairman and Chairman, twice. At national level he spent a year on the National Education Committee and served on various Working Parties before joining the National Elections Committee in 1991, becoming its Chairman in 1993. He retained the chair of the combined Membership and Training Committee during the mergers of the late ‘90s and remained on the committee until his election to Deputy President in October 2007.
During the past few years he has represented IoTA at numerous external events in addition to giving invited presentations at IoTA centres. He has also been successful in raising the Institute’s profile by means of the training courses and consultancy services provided by his company and by interviews he has given on BBC Radio Lancashire and Manx Radio.
Alan is also a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Carmen in the City of London, a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, a member of the Roads and Road Transport History Association and a member of the London Underground Railway Society.
Rev Terry Dobson FInstTA
National Chairman 2007/8
Terry Dobson has over 40 year’s involvement in Transport and Educational Industries. He started as a HGV Fitter, and then served as Fleet Engineer and Transport Manager, covering light, medium and heavy trucks, articulated and petroleum tankers, plus plant equipment, coaches and buses, He then entered education as a lecturer in motor vehicle studies. Over 24 years he honed his skills as an examiner, internal verifier, external verifier and served as National Development Officer for Scotvec (now SVQ) in Transport law and related areas. He has started up three companies involved in Transport Education. Currently, he owns an Independent Road Accident Reconstruction company, undertaking work for over fourteen years for Scottish solicitors in road accident, incident and injury situations. He is also the proprietor of a twenty-year-old transport education provider covering all aspects of Transport Manager training for those involved in the Goods and passenger industries. In addition, he is a part time CPC holder for both passenger and goods companies.
Terry’s connections with the Church began when he started as an assistant manager for the YMCA in Edinburgh. He became an elder then a minister (without portfolio). At present he is a member of the local area national council pastoral committee, and convenor of Local Church worship committee. He is currently studying for a Doctorate in Theology. He is involved in Trade Unionism commencing as a member progressing through local College Officer to Regional Officer for Lothian Region five colleges. He has a Bachelor of Arts Degree and an Advanced Diploma in Educational Management.
He also has an array of engineering qualifications, including amongst others a Full Technological Certificate in Motor Vehicle Engineering, Higher National Certificate in Mechanical and Production Engineering. Terry is founder Member of the Society of Expert Witnesses.
Ray Rowsell FInstTA
National Treasurer, Chairman Finance & General Purposes Committee
Ray Rowsell has been a member of the Institute for over forty years; he attended the Institute’s first education programme as a Student-Graduate-Associate Member, upgraded to Member in 1976. He served on Portsmouth Centre Committee as Secretary and various positions until merger with Southampton Centre (now Solent Centre). He joined Solent Committee and was elected Chairman, a position he still holds and enjoys. He was appointed to Finance and General Purposes Committee in April 2005 and National Treasurer in 2006.
He achieved four top ten finishes in the Transport and Distribution Manager of the year in the 1990’s, including a second and a third. He has been Director and Council Member of the Lorry Driver of the Year Association Ltd for fifteen years, Treasurer and Chairman Finance and General Purposes Committee (L.D.O.Y.).
Ray served most of his career with Whitbread (Brewers) in Distribution/Logistics in various positions, i.e. Transport Manager, Warehouse/Administration Manager, Regional Customer Service Manager, Systems Support and Project Manager, involved in many innovation projects, including computers on board delivery trucks, an early innovation in the late eighties. He is presently employed as Practice Manager for a firm of solicitors.
His interests include old trucks, tinkering and driving his M.G. Midget, playing badminton and all forms of motor sport including instructing young drivers at the Under Seventeen car club.
Mike Walker FInstTA
Chairman External Affairs
Mike Walker left Batley Grammar School in 1969 with seven GCEs and entered transport working in the despatch department of Fox's Biscuits in Batley. Soon after, even at that tender age, he was headhunted by Tate and Lyle where he worked as a planner and studied various transport related subjects as a day release student at Park Lane College, Leeds.
At the age of twenty-one he left the transport industry to spend two years at the Faith Mission Bible College in Edinburgh. This was followed by a year working as a preacher, holding missions around Northern Ireland. However in 1976 he returned to West Yorkshire to marry Julie and it wasn't long before the pull of transport had its way.
Whilst working for Tibbett & Britten he passed his National and International CPC exams, this was followed by two positions as Transport Manager for hauliers in Yorkshire. He found a natural involvement in company sales, moving to a mainly sales role in 1990; he now looks after sales at the Bradford depot of Italian haulier Transmec.
Mike joined the Institute in 1984 and like many others at the time had little involvement for a while in any centre activities. The Leeds centre at the time was struggling and the director (Peter Green) along with National Chairman and President (Dave Parfitt and Derek Bailey) visited Leeds Centre with the aim of motivating members. His boss at that time was made centre vice-chairman so again for a year or so he avoided responsibility. However one of the Leeds Centre founder members, Roy Skellern, later persuaded him to become centre secretary, a position he has subsequently held on several occasions in addition to being Centre Treasurer and Chairman. He says he has found since then IoTA is like anything else in life: what you get out of it is proportionate to what you put in!"
Nationally, Mike served on the External Affairs Committee for three years, prior to his year in the national chair (2005 - 2006).
Stan Heagren FInstTA
Chairman Education, Membership & Training Committee
Stan was born in 1942 in south London. He attended local schools in Peckham and at the age of fifteen entered the transport industry as a trainee traffic clerk with a company which had a depot in Camberwell, south London and Head office in Wishaw Lanarkshire. He started driving for them delivering trunk loads and reloading the return trunk: the firm had several large contracts so the work was varied which allowed him to build up experience very quickly.
Several years later, he changed companies and returned to office work as an assistant transport manager. After a short time, however, the transport manager resigned and Stan succeeded him.
In 1963 he joined his present company as a driving instructor; in 1988 he was made a director and since then has taken on the day-to-day running of the business. The company is now one of if not the largest driver training organisations in the south of England.
On behalf of the local TEC and his company, Stan has sought to take his firm’s expertise into Europe. This strategy has met with success and has borne its first offspring, “The Transmache Passport”: a method whereby two European companies Kent Metro and the French company IFTIAM, operate together training drivers in the rules and regulations of each other’s country.
Stan joined the Institute as a member of the Kent Centre in 1994/5. He became Chairman of the centre in 1996, at which time he was also elected to the Membership and Training Committee of which he later became Chairman, a position he held until he was elected as National Chairman in October 2004. He was re-elected to the chair of Education Membership and Training in October 2007.
Stan met his wife June when he was seventeen and forty-eight years later with four sons and eleven grandchildren feels he has been extremely lucky. In his spare time he has worked for various charitable and other organisations. He has been a keen angler for more than forty years.
Adrian Gettins FInstTA
Immediate Past Chairman
Adrian Gettins has been a member of IoTA since 1979 when he joined the Manchester Centre after taking the Institute Exams at Trafford College. At that time he was working for Yelloway Motorway Services on both Stage Carriage and National Express Routes.
From there he had the opportunity to own his own business with two coaches and a minibus. This made good progress until the aggressive tactics of Greater Manchester Buses made the business unviable. Adrian then sold it on. Following this he was appointed Transport Manager of Blands of Stamford (Drawline), which operated a wide range of Bus and Coach Services.
During this time Adrian helped set up an IoTA Centre at Peterborough where they attracted good attendance at meetings. From there he finally moved in 1996 to Machen in South Wales where he has been ever since. He started as Transport Manager for a small company and then set up ADG Transport Training & Consultancy which covers all modes of training from drivers to managers with CPC & NVQ awareness training. Alongside this he helps bus operators claim their Bus Service Operators Grant from the Government, a role which takes him to all parts of the UK.
He has been a member of the South Wales Centre committee and has covered most posts. For the past few years he has served on the IoTA Education Membership & Training Committee. This takes up a good deal of his spare time, progressing the various tasks that are only now starting to reach fruition. Adrian enjoys being a member of IoTA because he finds it helps keep him in touch with progress and legislation.
Ian M. Franklin MInstTA
National Chairman Elect
Ian Franklin has been a member of IoTA since 2001, when he joined Swindon Centre – now Wessex Centre; he became aware of the Institute through visiting TRUCKEX, at that time held annually not far from his house.
An international headhunter by profession, Ian graduated in psychology and has worked in the profession since 1982 when he moved into the recruitment markets specialising in mergers and acquisitions. As part of a new recruitment consultancy, by the late 1980s/early 1990s he was running a team in the City and another in Geneva.
In 1995, Ian chose to leave the financial markets recruitment arena and relocate to Wiltshire where he met Sarah, who is herself an Associate of IoTA. After his move, Ian left recruitment for a while to follow a new career path which involved him entering distribution and logistics. He started by delivering parcels for an express delivery company but soon rose through the company initially into sales and then as a Depot General Manager. Using the knowledge he had acquired, Ian moved back into recruitment in 2000 and has worked ever since as a specialist global logistics recruiter and is currently Managing Director of a division of one of the top international headhunting firms specialising in logistics, supply chain, investment banking, stockbroking and fund management and is based in London and Zurich.
Ian also belongs to several other professional bodies including being a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development, a Member of the Recruitment & Employment Confederation and a Fellow of the Association of Search & Selection Professionals. He lives near to the Wiltshire/Gloucestershire borders with Sarah, two hyperactive cats and his high performance German car.
Aside from being an active member of the Wessex Centre, Ian is the Guest Editor of the IoTA journal, Transport Management and a member of the External Affairs committee.
Gideon Fiegel FInstTA
Chairman of Trustees
Gideon Fiegel served in the armed forces, from 1944 to 1956 and retired with the rank of Captain. Following his service career, he held senior management positions in road haulage, car distribution, Ready Mixed Concrete Company, Hertz, and the carpet industry. In 1976 he bought a (run down) car company, which he turned into a thriving transport business. This was sold in 1984. He then acted as a transport consultant for a number of years.
In 1986 he was elected to the local Council in Brent and served as a councillor until his retirement in May 2006. From 1996 till 2002 he chaired the Boards of the Middlesex ITeC and the United Kingdom Association of (Private) Shareholders. In 1998 he was elected to the Worshipful Company of Carmen (a livery company) and made a Freeman of the City of London.
In between, he served as Chairman of the London Centre of the Chartered Institute of Transport prior to its amalgamation with the Institute of Logistics (now The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport).
Gideon joined IoTA in 1957 as a London Centre member. He became Press Officer, National Council Representative and later deputy Centre Chairman and Centre Chairman. From there he progressed to deputy National Chairman then National Chairman (1980/81). Subsequently he became Vice President and Trustee and, since 1997, he has served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees.
John Derek Bailey FInstTA
Trustee
Derek Bailey entered the Road Haulage Industry in 1940. He spent five years in the Royal Air Force from 1942 to 1947 as a Bomb Aimer on 103 and 166 Squadrons, Bomber Command. He completed 30 operations, and lived to tell the tale.
He returned to Road Haulage in 1947, working in Pickfords Heavy Haulage Service. In 1954 he joined Starr Roadways Ltd and shortly afterwards was appointed a Director of the company. He went on to complete 40 years service until retirement. He was Chairman of Leicester Sub Area of the Road Haulage Association and a member of the Heavy Haulage Group Committee.
Derek joined IoTA on 1st January 1964 as an Associate Member and was upgraded to Member on 5th April 1971. Following his year as National Chairman he was elected a Fellow in 1977. He has served as Leicester Centre Secretary, Centre Chairman, National Council Representative and National Chairman for 1976/7. He became Vice President in 1978 and at National Council served on Arbitration and Administration Committees. He was the first Chairman of the new Operations Committee and continued as a member of that committee for a number of years. He served as Deputy President for eight years and President for three years following which he was appointed a Trustee, a position which he still holds.
For 20 years from 1960 to 1980 he was Deputy Wing Commander of the Air Training Corps, South Midlands Wing and in 1980 he retired with the rank of Squadron Leader. His main interests are now the Institute and golf.
Ian M Marshall FInstTA
Trustee
Ian Marshall joined IoTA in 1977 as an Associate Member and was upgraded to Member in 1982. He was awarded a Fellowship of the Institute in 1989 and became a Trustee in 2002.
A member of Edinburgh Centre, he served on committee from 1979-2006. During this period he held the positions of Education Officer (1984-90), Vice Chairman (1980-82), Secretary (1987-90), and two two-year terms as Chairman (1982-84) (1992-94).
At National level he was Edinburgh Centre National Council Representative from 1982 until 2002 and served as a member of the Education Committee (1983-90) and External Affairs Committee (1992-2002).
Ian was born in Edinburgh and educated at The Edinburgh Academy; he served for six years with the Royal Corps of Signals in Europe and the Middle East before joining Scottish & Newcastle PLC in 1964. Whilst at Scottish & Newcastle he enjoyed a wide and varied transport career in Retail and Long Haul distribution.
In 1992, as Deputy Operations Planning Manager, he took early retirement from Scottish & Newcastle and spent the next four years lecturing in CPC studies at West Lothian College of Further Education before opting for full retirement.
Malcolm Braid FInstTA
Trustee
Malcolm Braid attended Acton Technical College (which is now Brunel University) where he was awarded a Diploma in Engineering. He joined Kodak at the Harrow and Wealdstone factory as apprentice fitter at the age of sixteen. Two years later, he joined the Services and despite mechanical experience was classified as a Clerk. He served in Austria, Korea, Suez and the United Kingdom. Subsequently he transferred to the Royal Air Force where he served in Germany, Cyprus and the United Kingdom. He then served for 12 years as a Squadron Leader and Wing Staff Officer in the RAF (VRT) for the Air Training Corps in the Central and East Yorkshire Wing.
Malcolm’s transport experience was in tyres (Dunlop in Leeds for five years). Having taken his PSV (PCV) licence whilst involved with RAF (VRT) he commenced his own coach operation but, after several years struggling with driver problems, job rates, bad payers and ever increasing legislation decided to enter the Transport Management field as an employee. His last position was that of Transport Manager for Clarkes of London for fourteen years. He retired at the age of seventy-two.
Malcolm joined IoTA in 1984 – initially as a member of West London Centre but in 1995 was persuaded by the then Director – Wing Commander Peter Green - to form London Central Centre where he served as Centre Chairman for three years and then National Chairman. He was made a Fellow in 1999 and following his term as National Chairman and has been a Trustee of the Institute since 2002.
David J S Dalglish MInstTA
Institute Director
David was appointed as Secretary General of IoTA on the 28th November 2005 and, in the April of 2006, ratified by Council as Director. During his career, he has been involved in catering management and training and, aside from running well known venues on behalf of Fortes, Gardiner Merchants and J Lyons, he is a fully qualified (HCI) Catering Instructor and Manager. He now runs an accountant/auditor type business (established in 1984), reporting to the HM Revenue & Customs on behalf of various airline and shipping firms.
His business, European Tax & Duties (ETD), is associated with the British Association of Ships Suppliers (BASS), the European Association of Ships Suppliers (OCEAN), and the International Ship Suppliers Association (ISSA). His firm is also a member of the International Travel Catering Association (ITCA).
He is a Fellow member of the Hotel Catering Institutional Management Association (FHCIMA), a Fellow of Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce (FRSA) and a Member of the Institute of Directors (IoD).
David became a member of the Institute in 2001, he served on the Education Membership and Training Committee until his engagement as the Director and is still the Chairman and Treasurer of IoTA’s Herts, Beds and Bucks Centre.
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