How common are assessments/inductions for agency scumbags?

You’ll probably find the big blue chip firms will have a longish assessment covering all types of stuff where as the smaller firms might not have anything or perhaps a quick spin around the block, I used to do agency assessments for Culina and they would be about 4 hrs in total and the driver would then gain a good knowledge of all the procedures etc but I don’t think the agency used to pay them though.