Depends who’s doing the training, chap who has been taking us concentrates on keeping us, and the company, out of trouble.
Company pays for the course and pays us to attend, this bod gives fair value for money IMHO, the mob they originally used the first (and only) module was hopeless, we didn’t go back.
What the hell does anyone need to understand about a walk around check, it should be obvious, if you’ve got people who can’t prepare and check their lorry out without a ■■■■■■■ clip board or app (FFS) telling them what to look at next, you’re employing someone who will never be a lorry driver as long as they have a hole in their arse.
The DCPC might have been the straw that broke a few camel’s backs, but you arn’t going to attract the old school back into the lorry by treating them with the disrespect of assuming they are at idiot level, and that unfortunately is what so many operators do now, they dumb the job down to idiot level and sure enough along come the idiots who amazingly do what idiots do, and instead of training them up to the level of lorry drivers, everyone has to be trained down to the lowest common denominator.
Pay the right money, treat driver’s like intelligent lorry drivers should be (unless they prove themselves idiots, in which case boot them out) and let them get on with the bloody job.
Oh and if they want one, give them a lorry that’s up to the job in hand which requires more input than selecting D and pressing the loud pedal, and provide facilities such as decent wash downs etc bulbs and suzies in stock and tools to maintain minor running repairs on their motor, so they can once more take a pride in their job.