I’m gonna try and get on this government HGV “bootcamp” program. Apparently it opens mid November, which would be inline with the above speculative posts.
Will be interesting to see how that works, or if I have to travel on a residential or something to get it done, or whether its just through a local test/training centre.
Still non the wiser about the “3rd party” training for trailer stuff, IE, reversing and couple+uncouple.
I guess it does make you more employable if you only need to pass the “trailer” training, maybe companies will be more willing to pay that cost as opposed to funding the complete training. A bit like a company preferring a Class2 driver over a van driver since the training to Class1 is less. [or at least, it used to be]
See here : educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2021/0 … -answered/