HGV Training Blog

Jim Mair HGV Training based in Kilmarnock are currently offering HGV training courses from only £500 (5 day course with £200 reduction through ILA.) If live in Scotland and earn less than £22,000?, you can apply for an ILA (Individual Learning Account.)
An ILA is a Scottish Government funded initiative to help meet the cost of your training. Having an ILA (individual Learning Account) can save you up to £200 off your HGV course fees. Jim Mair Training are an established, ILA approved training centre with many years HGV driver training experience. They are also an approved network members of hgvlgvtraining. Contact them today to get you career off to the right start.

If you are looking to book your Driver CPC (Periodic) training then take caution. Reports have been circulating of a small number of training companies selling Driver CPC courses which are not JAUPT (Joint Approvals unit for Periodic Training) approved. If the Driver CPC course you attend turns out not to be JAUPT approved then it won’t count towards your 35 hours. Companies who deliver Driver CPC (Periodic) training must have centre approval and course/s approved by JAUPT. Every approved company will have a centre number and every Driver CPC course will have a unique course number. If in any doubt as to the validity of the course you have or will attend you should contact the DSA on 0115 901 5879 or email drivercpc@dsa.gsi.gov.uk. They can offer advice and assistance.

www.hgvlgvtraining.co.uk only lists and promotes HGV and Driver CPC training companies that are approved and reputable. Find a training company with confidence through our unique search facility.

Hastings based Lessonbase Projects Ltd (Driver Training Centre) members of www.hgvlgvtraining.co.uk are now approved to deliver ADR training. ADR certification is required by Drivers who transport dangerous goods by road. Lessonbase Projects is an SQA (Scotish Qualifications Authority) approved examination centre as well as an NDGTC (National Dangerous Goods Training Consortium) member. Lessonbase Projects run 3.5 day packaged goods courses that are JAUPT approved. This means up to 21 hours of your ADR course can be counted as Driver CPC training.
Visit Lessonbase Projects Ltd today and see how they can help further enhance your career.

EP Training Services are proud to announce the addition of a new class 2 HGV training vehicle to its fleet. Surrey based EP Training purchased the MAN 18 tonner due to an increase in demand for quality HGV training and as part of its ongoing facilities upgrade program. The vehicle will be specifically used for HGV category C training.

As well as category C, C1 and C+E, EP Training delivers a wide variety of haulage related training courses including ADR, CPC (operator and Driver), DGSA, FLT, O Licence Compliance etc.

They have been delivering high quality training solutions to the haulage and associated industries for over 30 years. visit EP Training now or use our approved to find your nearest commercial transport Training Company from our
HGV training search engine.

Attend a Lorry Loader training course with EP Training based in Surrey and get 3 qualifications at the same time. This one day course can count as 7 hours Driver CPC training, ALLMI certification (Association of Loader Loaders Manufacturers and Importers) and red or blue CPCS card (required on construction sites.)
Courses can be delivered for private individuals and companies alike. For private individuals training is run in association with Saunders Training based in Molesey. Course is for expereinced operators (at least 15 hours experience.) For further details please contact EP direct on 01372 450 800. visit EP Training now.

Sean Pargeter, Director of EP Training Services and co-owner of www.hgvlgvtraining.co.uk writes an article for Motor Transport on the expected highs and resulting lows of year one with Driver CPC.

Well before the implementation date of September 10 2009, EP Training was busy preparing for the Driver CPC, attaining JAUPT approval as a training centre and writing numerous periodic courses. We invested in extra training, as well as a costly advertising campaign. Free training seminars were offered to notify new and existing customers what Driver CPC was about, and how our company could assist them in complying with the new legislation.

We had everything in place and were ready to go from day one. We even decided to start running Driver CPC ‘train the trainer’ courses to assist those organisations in achieving JAUPT approval centre and course approval. So, everything was ready and we were raring to go – just one slight problem; no customers.

I say no customers, but that is not strictly true. To begin with, September, October and November did see some drivers attend our courses. Perhaps it was the novelty factor, but the numbers we envisaged and hoped for have been nowhere in sight. I can count on one hand the number of courses we delivered from our centre that were attended by 12 drivers or more. For the most part, there were anything from one to four students and that’s not including the 50% plus of all scheduled courses we didn’t run at all, as take-up was zero.

We reduced our course prices by more than 30% to attract more customers. We also thought maybe the fact that some hauliers decided to get JAUPT approval and deliver in-house Driver CPC training could be a factor in our poor uptake. However, having spoken with the DSA and other like-minded training firms, it would appear uptake overall from the haulage industry has been poor at best, and disastrous at worst.

Year two is now upon us and we have reduced course prices even further and changed our courses to try to attract more interest. Gone are manual handling and preventing falls from vehicles. Year two will see us run modules on drivers’ hours, ADR and accident procedure and prevention. Assuming nearly 500,000 HGV drivers will need to obtain their Driver CPC, 17 million hours of periodic training must be completed by September 2014. That is three-and-a-half million hours on average every year. Year one is up and no more than one million hours have been completed so far. That’s a shortfall of two-and-a-half million in year one already.

Unless drastic action is taken by the DSA, JAUPT and the industry as a whole, we are sleepwalking into one of the biggest training requirement bottlenecks this industry has ever known. The DSA can pretty much tackle the problem of slow intake overnight, by making seven hours of training mandatory every year, and investing in a comprehensive marketing campaign rather than leaving it to trade journals and training establishments.

Approvals body JAUPT really needs to get a grip with training provider quality issues and not issue approval to anyone who flashes £1,500 their way. The transport industry is aware of Driver CPC, but not educated and informed enough. We still have people calling us saying they areexempt from Driver CPC as they hold an Operator CPC. Confusion and apathy is a recipe for serioustrouble down the line.

If you need Driver CPC training Initial or Periodic don’t leave it too late. Leaving it till the last minute will cost you more money. As demand rises so will prices.