Blueiain:
Well he’s giving up, I hope he’s okay, and I hope Advantage get shafted
It certainly sounds like his motivations have to do with how the training was brokered the more we’re hearing about it.
Some of these training schools have been allowed to get away with too much and for too long. There was even a panorama documentary about it not so long ago.
Red Squirrel:
limeyphil:
Red Squirrel:
tachograph:
As bloodoodle has already mentioned the hostage situation is at Advantage HGV, a training broker.According to Sky News the professional drivers foundation are saying Advantage HGV have a history of taking money going bust then trading by another name. Perhaps there’s more to all this than simply a guy failing his test?
it looks like it.
and if he keeps it up, he may get some public sympathy.the guy could have been made redundant, and used all his savings on a company with false promises.
we’ve all seen the adverts. guaranteed pass, guaranteed job at £600+ per week.I think you could be right. I’ve just been scanning through and I can find no end of threads on internet forums about this company. There’s a couple on the pdf website and I believe there’s been some on here as well.
Advantage HGV have been getting some very bad publicity over this, the problem is that they will probably just go into liquidation and restart under a different name 
Personally I hope this situation gets brokers who take peoples money under false promises of thousands of well paid jobs being available to trainees some really bad publicity.
If that’s true, they deserved to be blown up 
From what I understand Advantage Training Services went into liquidation in March 2012
Advantage Training Services
Filed on: 14-03-2012- Creditors/Liquidators committee
Filed on: 14-03-2012- Notice of Appointment of Liquidator in a voluntary Winding Up
Filed on: 14-03-2012- Extraordinary Resolution in Creditors Voluntary Liquidation
Pat
There’s an old thread here about Advantage HGV viewtopic.php?f=2&t=81425.
I think you’ll find that Advantage Training Services are a different company to Advantage HGV.
tachograph:
I think you’ll find that Advantage Training Services are a different company to Advantage HGV.
I might be confused then, but that thread is titled “Advantage Hgv, brokers” so I thought it was the same one.
That may be so, but some of the same names seem to crop up 
Pat
tachograph:
I think you’ll find that Advantage Training Services are a different company to Advantage HGV.
it could be a different name. but it could be the same directors.
Red Squirrel:
tachograph:
I think you’ll find that Advantage Training Services are a different company to Advantage HGV.I might be confused then, but that thread is titled “Advantage Hgv, brokers” so I thought it was the same one.
This is their website guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/apr/2 … sfeed=true
bloodoodle:
That may be so, but some of the same names seem to crop up
Probably connected then, sorry I wasn’t aware of that
That website says “Earn up to £550 a week”, “Train in 5 days”, “1000’s of Jobs Available” 
limeyphil:
Red Squirrel:
tachograph:
As bloodoodle has already mentioned the hostage situation is at Advantage HGV, a training broker.According to Sky News the professional drivers foundation are saying Advantage HGV have a history of taking money going bust then trading by another name. Perhaps there’s more to all this than simply a guy failing his test?
it looks like it.
and if he keeps it up, he may get some public sympathy.the guy could have been made redundant, and used all his savings on a company with false promises.
we’ve all seen the adverts. guaranteed pass, guaranteed job at £600+ per week.
+1 on that mate… I feel for the fella company’s like Advantage HGV shouldn’t be aloud to get away with there ■■■■,
limeyphil:
Red Squirrel:
tachograph:
As bloodoodle has already mentioned the hostage situation is at Advantage HGV, a training broker.According to Sky News the professional drivers foundation are saying Advantage HGV have a history of taking money going bust then trading by another name. Perhaps there’s more to all this than simply a guy failing his test?
it looks like it.
and if he keeps it up, he may get some public sympathy.the guy could have been made redundant, and used all his savings on a company with false promises.
we’ve all seen the adverts. guaranteed pass, guaranteed job at £600+ per week.
This is where I’m putting my money with regards to this situation.
Advantage [zb] with the wrong guy today I think!
I can’t get into the THOUSANDS OF JOBS on their website!!!
Do you suppose the server with all of those on got thrown out the window■■?
Red Squirrel:
I can’t get into the THOUSANDS OF JOBS on their website!!!
Do you suppose the server with all of those on got thrown out the window■■?
i hope he gets off with a slapped wrist by a sympathetic magistrate.
In a video posted on YouTube by the Huffington Post, Abby Baafi, 27, who works at Advantage Training Services, the business the man was said to have stormed, said: "I recognised him because he was one of our previous customers.
"He turned up, strapped up with gasoline cylinders, and threatened to blow up the office.
"He doesn’t care about anything, he is going to blow up everybody.
“He was specifically looking for me but I said ‘My name’s not Abby’ and he let me go.”
It’s Abby’s fault.
a bit further down;
She added that the two men said they had been let go as they were parents and were told to leave the building.
Sounds like a decent enough chap.
the following link has comments from the head of training.