Local or National Trainer?

NEW AND WANNABE DRIVERS (INTERACTIVE)
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Hello all.

I am just about to start my LGV training and I am about to select a training centre - so I am about as new as it gets on here!!!

I have narrowed it down to a local centre to me (Bridgend Wales) with a good name locally. I have met with them, seen the trucks and standards and it seems good to me. Another few local places I ruled out for one reason or another and I have been reading advice on here about internet ‘brokers’ of such training - I like to think I am being careful and wise!!

I have also been looking at a manufacturers training programme which is based in England about an hour or so away from me, who offer a weeks intensive training to cat C. I have also met with them and again it all seems good and maybe a bit more ‘corporate’ than the local guys.

Times is hard and I am a bit strapped for cash and I am minded to go with the local guys because it is cheaper but its also closer to home and I wont have the pressure of an intensive course to sort in a week!

I like the manufacturers course with all its polish and prestige but do I really need it to get a job??

Just wondering if anyone has any thoughts or experiences they can share with me? Out of the two where would you spend your hard earned? I don’t have any employer to back me so I am doing this on my own because I want to be a driver.

Thanks. Pete

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If your local trainer has a good reputation and you’re happy to train with them go for it, when you apply for jobs your choice of trainer isn’t likely to be much of a deciding fact for a prospective employer.

If you want to name the training company you’re considering there may be people here who have experience of them.

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+1

Pete :laughing: :laughing:

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Broker :laughing:

I Got two tests 24 hours cpc I’m in 3k debt with it now

Go local

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If all seems well, go with the local company if they offer everything you feel you need. I think the only truck manufacturer that provides training in a fashion is Scania, as selling trucks is their main business I doubt they will be as good as a well focused training company.

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you hit the nail on the head with the manufacturer! :wink: although they wont have much luck trying to sell me 120k worth if truck because I am having to turn over a few sofas to find the cash to do my training anyway! :laughing:

Thanks for the advice!

anyone else got any views or experiences of training in south wales?

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Go local if they have a good rep no reason why not to

Most of us have paid for it ourselves btw so no big deal there even if you work for a company a lot still have to pay for it themselves