Hi guys. I’m living in Northampton.
LGV Training has quoted me at a total of 1700 before the CPC for the lot.
I’ve done my medical privately and would like to know maybe you guys can point me in the right direction here. Is 1700 a bit too much or is it me? Where should I go for the training and everything so that it’s not too expensive? Thanks a lot!
Depends on the company in my opinion 1700 is fair if your going to be trained well and recieve plenty of time behind the wheel
On the other hand it can be gotten cheaper I paid 1500 with a very reputable company which included the mod 4. Or rather the total came to 1500 after paying for both training , test and mod 4
Depends if your 1700 gets you any extra
Mod 1a mod1b
Mod 2?
Mod 4
Training and test?
Licence fee?
I know some company’s work through everything with you from medical to mod 4
I suppose mod 4 refers to CPC?
Sorry for being ignorant, i’m just trying to figure out things. Worked in security, still trying to shake the laziness in me 
I appreciate your reply and will make further enquires to see what they’re offering for that price.
You’ve already taken the 1st step. Price is important so hopefully you spent no more than £60 on the medical inc eyesight check. The LGV Training Co are a training broker, not a training company.
It really is difficult to compare training companies. Price and location are what most people focus on but there’s so much more to consider. Quality of vehicles, trainers, admin (vital). Please go and meet the trainer before you decide. I started training lads in 1983 and there is little about getting a LGV licence I haven’t experienced.
Again go and meet any company you are considering.
Personally I would go to Peter Smythe if I lived that close to Mansfield but there are others. I doubt many better though. Of course different if you lived in Wales or Yorkshire or Scotland or London.
£1700 doesn’t sound too bad but be SO CAREFUL
I booked my medical, theory test, hazard perception, cpc mod 2, cpc mod 4, by myself… because its not hard. And booked my training/test through Scania. All in all I paid around £1800 which i think was fair. Top kit and instructors from Scania, would definitely recommend, if theres any near you.
If you live in the Suffolk area then try Total Driving. They cost me about £1500 altogether (from medical to mod4) and the training was brilliant. Didn’t mess me about and I passed everything first time. I rate them highly, I know it’s different but they passed bloody Ed Sheeran on his car test!
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Northampton based go for pertemps driving school based at Crick. Scott and his team are spot on. Search for “Tom Ingram hgv” on YouTube !
Medical local doctors on call i think £50
Theory hazard approx £50
Peter smythe with 10% discount( free cpc offer taken) and free bed and breakfast as 70 miles away £1250
Contact Peter Or watch for there offers
Underlinemtz:
Hi guys. I’m living in Northampton.LGV Training has quoted me at a total of 1700 before the CPC for the lot.
I’ve done my medical privately and would like to know maybe you guys can point me in the right direction here. Is 1700 a bit too much or is it me? Where should I go for the training and everything so that it’s not too expensive? Thanks a lot!
Is that LGV training a broker or a school with their own vehicles 
Can you post their website please
I understand that cost is a big factor in these things, however the goal is to gain the licence(s). So it would make sense to me to approach 2 or 3 and get a feel for the training companies.
If you feel relaxed and confident in the training you will receive, I suspect the chances of re-test will be reduced, and your overall training experience would be far more enjoyable.
If one trainer in particular seemed a tad dearer but offered the better experience, surely that is better value, not to mention the fact that overall it could end up being cheaper than others. Remember, the test pass rate is roughly 50% so theoretically the trainer who started out £200 more expensive COULD end up cheaper if you had one less test with them.
Try and look at the overall picture folks.
Underlinemtz:
… will make further enquires to see what they’re offering for that price.
You haven’t said who “they” are, so it will be difficult for anybody to give you advice as to whether “they” are a broker.
What ‘brokers’ do can be perfectly legal, but there are some charlatans about, so please be warned.
If it turns out that it’s a broker that you’re considering using, please ask yourself whether you want to pay extra (of YOUR money) to somebody just for making a few arrangements that you’d get for free from a ‘mainstream’ ( = proper) LGV driving school?
The best way to find this out is to name the company on here (it doesn’t breach forum rules) and you’ll soon get an answer from somebody who can spot a broker before you unnecessarily spend more of YOUR money than you need to.
Another way to find out is to ask the bookings person about your wish to see the vehicles and meet the instructors. 
A broker will give you the run-around, whereas a mainstream LGV driving school will welcome your visit.
You’ll have to leave the comfort of your security lodge to do this, but it’s well worth the effort. 
If you look at the link in ROG’s signature, you’ll find a list of LGV driving schools that TN members have used and recommended.
It’s your money, but please be advised that a mainstream LGV driving school (any mainstream LGV driving school of your choice) will give you better value than a broker.
Be aware that the wages for new pass,class c being offered are minimum wage or crap multi drop stress jobs .companies use new pass as an excuse as do agencies .
And be aware that the industry recruitment/training brokers are full of absolutly greedy grasping dishonest people .be switched on reading contracts closely !
Albert1:
Be aware that the wages for new pass,class c being offered are minimum wage or crap multi drop stress jobs !
Crap multi drop stress jobs that pay up to 26k and get you a foot in the door
Alfa1M:
Albert1:
Be aware that the wages for new pass,class c being offered are minimum wage or crap multi drop stress jobs !Crap multi drop stress jobs that pay up to 26k and get you a foot in the door
Just saying what i have been offered ,and on minimum wage pal.
Aye thats fair, but just so anyone coming into the game is aware there is some decent paying jobs out their as well, although agreed all your likely to get will be ball ache multi drops that you won’t enjoy but most of us have to start out lower down than Whale crap
Albert1:
Be aware that the wages for new pass,class c being offered are minimum wage or crap multi drop stress jobs .companies use new pass as an excuse as do agencies .
And be aware that the industry recruitment/training brokers are full of absolutly greedy grasping dishonest people .be switched on reading contracts closely !
Not necessarily true.A month after passing my C i secured a full time job on a new waste to energy site taking by products from the process to storage or landfill.It was a 4 on 4 off job paying £11.47 an hour.
BeakFreak81:
Albert1:
Be aware that the wages for new pass,class c being offered are minimum wage or crap multi drop stress jobs .companies use new pass as an excuse as do agencies .
And be aware that the industry recruitment/training brokers are full of absolutly greedy grasping dishonest people .be switched on reading contracts closely !Not necessarily true.A month after passing my C i secured a full time job on a new waste to energy site taking by products from the process to storage or landfill.It was a 4 on 4 off job paying £11.47 an hour.
Lucky you 
Albert1:
BeakFreak81:
Albert1:
Be aware that the wages for new pass,class c being offered are minimum wage or crap multi drop stress jobs .companies use new pass as an excuse as do agencies .
And be aware that the industry recruitment/training brokers are full of absolutly greedy grasping dishonest people .be switched on reading contracts closely !Not necessarily true.A month after passing my C i secured a full time job on a new waste to energy site taking by products from the process to storage or landfill.It was a 4 on 4 off job paying £11.47 an hour.
Lucky you
Not really…
Turns out that all the scientific boffins couldn’t get the heating up process to work correctly.And to cut a long story short led to me not having any work to do.Left of my own accord because as a new driver i wanted to be out and about getting experience.Not long after all my colleagues were laid off.
You should find Class C and C+E should cost the same or at least I did.
Ring round your local training schools and get a quote…remember the dates usually tie into their already booked tests (they don’t initially need a name for test until closer to the time) I suspect 4 full days if there are two of you learning at the same time or 4 half days 1 on 1. On the 5th day will be your test so a couple of hours beforehand then off you go for your test.
CPC/Mod depending on how old your licence is…grandfather rights then you can go for 5 days in a class otherwise the Mod is shorter apart from the lead time to book it in.
I know when I did mine if I went with Scania for both C and C+E it would have been value for money but I did not know they existed when I did my C.
My experience was the driving schools are slow to respond whilst the training brokers are very quick to talk to you and promise you enhanced included retest etc etc…
Good Luck
My experience was the driving schools are slow to respond whilst the training brokers are very quick to talk to you
The reason for that is that many trainers are “one man bands”. And there’s nothing wrong with that - - I used to be one. But the fact is that it’s impossible to spend time with a potential new customer and train an existing candidate. Something’s gonna give and the correct thing to give has to be the attention to the new customer. The candidate being trained has already paid and committed to the trainer so it’s only correct that he gets the attention.
At the other end of the spectrum is the broker. These operate from small call centres and don’t have the situation above as they have nothing to do with operating the training. They simply sell as hard as they can and place customers with the cheapest trainer they can find and this maximises their profit. So this is why you always get a quick response from the broker.
There is a middle path which is the driving school that has grown to the point of operating a manned office. Some “one man bands” manage this with their wife typically manning the phone. And that’s great. And some schools have grown to a point that they have lost sight of looking after the customer.
But I would urge folks to wait for the response from the “one man band” before they get involved in brokers. It will be worth the wait both in service offered and, probably, price.
However, there is a minority of totally disorganised “one man bands” who wont/cant respond in a reasonable time. It’s impossible to know who these are but I would suggest that it’s reasonable to expect a response within 24hrs. And if it’s not forthcoming, try someone else.
Pete