Hello I’m looking at doing these courses below. I see mainly see advertised where I am full adr or 6.1 6.2 or 5.1 5.2
The reason why I’m looking the extra pay you get now makes a big difference. You can soon earn that back in 1 or 2 weeks wages.
So its worth getting the full adr for sure. But is it worth getting the tanks?
Also what’s the tanks added for or mainly used for?
Also these hard to pass or common sense courses?
Initial 7 Classes in Packages & Tanks cost £520
Units Covered : Core, Tanks, Packages and Classes 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9
Initial 7 Classes in Packages £420
Units Covered : Core, Packages and Classes 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9
You can get 3 days CPC at and extra £20 per day if you sit core, packs and classes. If you sit the tanker module you can get another one for £20.
It depends what you want to do. Obviously a tanker is a specialist vehicle, so tanks is only worth it if you want to drive a tanker. Packages can help in general transport, ie the odd load in a curtain or fridge, groupage containers etc. You may even need it for some flat or low loader work. Tanks are not worth it imho. If you want to be a tanker driver, they will probably put you through it
OVLOV JAY:
Tanks are not worth it imho.
None of it is worth it, I have it all (except 1+7) and I can’t even use it
No point doing tanks unless that’s what you want to drive, and ADR/tanker driver aren’t necessarily on more money than other drivers, so I suggest making sure you can actually get a decent paid job before investing in your own ADR course.
Whoever told you that you will get the Adr course money back in one or two weeks is talking a load of bulls manure.
So you are saying by having Adr, you will get paid £ 500 to 700 extra a week or halve that over two weeks pay.
Most firms pay a fiver a week for having Adr.
There’s a job advertised regularly on Reed offering £13.50 in the week, £17.50 Sat and £19.00 Sun doing ADR. How true it is I don’t know and knowing agency it’s probably a fake job.
Most other ADR jobs just seem to be similar money to all the other jobs. And good luck getting in at Hoyer etc.
Seen Suttons offering £13 for nights recently but I’m on over £12 doing nights already so it’s not exactly a huge jump in money and i get time and half after 8 hours too.
toby1234abc:
Whoever told you that you will get the Adr course money back in one or two weeks is talking a load of bulls manure.
So you are saying by having Adr, you will get paid £ 500 to 700 extra a week or halve that over two weeks pay.
Most firms pay a fiver a week for having Adr.
Toby,
Have you actually considered the OP’s starting point?
If a driver has no ADR and is either unemployed or on agency work, then they have no chance to do an ADR job if one came up.
If said driver has an ADR card, then they at least have the choice as to whether to accept the job.
A driver in that situation could easily recoup the cost of an ADR course within a couple of weeks by accepting work that he/she couldn’t other wise have done.
What I’ve put above doesn’t avoid the truth of what you’ve said though, but my point is that not everybody is in the situation you described.