Hi all, new here. Does anybody have any recommendations for C+E training near Bedford?
Whilst I’m here I’ll tell my story to maybe encourage anybody who is thinking of getting their LGV license. I came back from mobilised service with the TA in 2005 and wanted to get a skill that would give me flexibilty to do other things whilst still paying a reasonably wage. If I had still been living in the London area I good have gone back to being a motorcycle courier, something I did for nearly ten years, back in another life. But that wasn’t possible in Suffolk so I decided to gat my ‘C’ license. Trouble was I didn’t have a car license. So I did my car test in Nov '05 and my LGV training in Jan '06! A crazy result of this is that most van driving jobs seem to stipulate that a person has held a (car) driving license for a year or two, so I would have struggled to get a job driving a transit but got work driving LGV straight away! Another bizarre thing is that I don’t have D1 on my license, so I can legitmately get in a 32 tonne tipper but I can’t drive a 13 seater minibus.
Whilst agency work near Lowestoft wasn’t so very thick on the ground, at least it did keep me working, and during a brief time in Nottingham getting 18 tonne multi-drop was no probs at all.
I’ve now been doing charity work in Beds for a few months, which is drawing to a close and I’ve amazed friends by having work lined up straight away with no problem at all.
I’ve been a post-man, a courier, a soldier and now a lorry driver, and whilst I’ve worked inside, and in offices too, I’ve always been one to get out and about. So if your at all like that, get a lorry license. At worst you’ll have a skill you can always fall back on, at best you’ll a have a career for life.
And like squaddies and couriers, you have the right to winge vociferously, so cue some old stagers who are about to tell newbies about all the bad bits. 
So I’m not completely inexperienced with bendy machines