Direct LGV stops trading
Taken from hgvlgvtraining.co.uk/
It would appear that HGV training brokers, Direct LGV are no longer trading. For the past 2 weeks customers who call their telephone number (advertised on their website) are given the following message “The number you have dialled in not currently in service”
Their website is still active yet gives no indication as to why they cannot be contacted. Visitors to the website however can still complete a “contact us” form. Via their website Direct LGV claims to have over 80 training locations all over the UK. They also claim to supply LGV jobs in association with Blue Arrow.
The reality is they were a hybrid broker. They had 1 or 2 training vehicles and tested out of Enfield, North London. All other HGV driver training was farmed out to 3rd parties. As a result students didn’t have a choice as to where they ended up.
That is if they ever got the training they paid for in the first place. Blue Arrow has also denied having any recruitment agreement with Direct LGV. Direct LGV had an abysmal record for customer service, training delivery and paying their bills.
Just Google “LGV Direct reviews” and see how many people have complained about this company.
In fact Direct LGV was mentioned in a recent Daily Mirror articled called ”Road to Ruin”.
In it they were exposed as a dodgy HGV training broker who had 20 County Court Judgements (CCJ’s) against them totalling 33,000 pounds. Interestingly Direct LGV has a sister company called KHMO which has 9 CCJ’s against it totalling nearly 18,000 pounds.
Direct LGV’s credit score also speaks volumes about how this company operated. A credit score of 2 is deemed very high risk.
By the looks of things Direct LGV has joined a long list of HGV training brokers who have ceased trading. In recent times we have seen the collapse of Advantage Training Services, Fast Track HGV, Network HGV, 1st Class Trucking, Blackwater HGV, to name but a few.
HGV training brokers will lead potential customers into thinking they are a national training company who will find them work after passing their driving test. Claims of earning 30,000 pounds a year is not uncommon. What’s promised initially is seldom delivered in reality.
If you’re serious about getting you’re HGV driving licence then we recommend you go direct to a local, established training providers in your area.
Posted on Monday, 28th May 2012.
as well as the rhetoric is very similar to some other websites that are now defunct. However UcanLGV at this time have not appeared to have done anything similar to those discredited websites apart from making similar website claims.
