Assessment Drive

Got one booked for Thursday, just wondering what to expect from this? Just you bog standard for the trainer to see what sort of training I need going forward to gain my class 2 license.

My cat C assessment drive was simply being handed the keys to an 18 ton Mercedes and told to drive it around for half an hour or so (I had never driven a truck before either). A brief intro to the cab, the gearbox and controls but no guidance, no advice, just a freehand drive so the trainer could gauge what type of driver I was, what bad habits I had, and therefore how much time it was likely to take to knock me into shape.

Sadly we got it a bit wrong and the trainer assessed me as better than I actually turned out to be. It was therefore a bit stressful for him getting me ready in the limited time he gave me for training. To his credit, though, he didn’t push me to book more time training than he honestly thought I needed based on the assessment.