Hi Sparks,
Will try my best with my limited knowledge!!
Sparks:
Would doing my ADR now be a worthwhilst investment or would the jobs that need ADR be the same jobs that the employers are looking for minimum experience
Your ADR could be of use in this situation, however I will add something which has been advised to me by two separate people both whom I regard their information as top notch. Unless you have driving milk tankers or mixer trucks, or have numerous companies around you who deliver with tankers it’d be a waste of time and money doing your tanker module on the ADR which is an extra expense which you probably wouldn’t get a look in at using.
I did my ADR in Feb of this year, and though I’ve not used it yet, it is there as another qualification to go on your cv and another door that you have opened up for yourself. Also I paid (i think it was £75) on top of the course fee and got 21 hours towards my dcpc so effectively killed two birds with one stone in some respects.
Sparks:
i don’t think there would be any point in doing an hiab now
Any particular reason why not? It can be a handy ticket to have, and if you live in the proximity of any brick or block hauliers could get a foot in the door, I did a week away with a chap from here who is a owner driver brick and block work guy, and it was a bloody great week, much better being able to tip yourself than wait for bone idol warehouse boys to get their backsides into gear 
But again if there is no one fairly local to you where you might be able to use it, might not be worth doing.
On a separate note, if you do decide to do it, do a course where you can get dcpc hours accredited to you, again two birds one stone scenario 
Sparks:
what about a FLT license for the FLT you see fixed to the back of artics, are these even covered by a normal FLT license?
From what I know about these, which are called moffetts or mountys, you need to have i think possibly BOTH reach and counterbalance flt licenses, and then go to a trainer who deals with mountys, and get your flt licenses upgraded, again seems a worthless investment unless there are companies close to you who have this set up, again if you were to do this, I believe some places have courses which can add hours to your dcpc.
On a side note, if you are in full time work at the minute that you are quite happy doing, don’t jump ship at the first class 1 job you might be offered, much better to enjoy the work you are doing and bide your time for the right job to come along, than be in a job you don’t like where you get treated like crap but you’re in an artic so somehow that magically makes it all better, it won’t do.
On a further side note, try signing up with some local agencies see if they can get you a shift every now and then on your rest periods, to get you some artic experience, but again don’t jump ship to try and rely on any agency being able to give you full weeks of work every week.
Sorry if there was anything in this post which seemed obvious to you and sounds like I’m trying to teach to ■■■■ eggs, I’m only new to the industry (been in a class one job for a year, before that a few months on a 7.5 tonner) so don’t know it all.know much if anything but just wanted to make sure I put down in writing all the things buzzing round in my head in case you weren’t sure about any particular thing.
Hope in some way this helps.
P.S if you put your location down, people can give you a heads up on anything they might know of local to you that you may not be aware of 
If you read the ADR ‘sticky’ in the Safety and Law forum, you get some idea of what’s involved in the carriage of dangerous goods.
HERE
) but I was careful that didn’t jump to a conclusion.