I am a agency driver fed up with driving so looking for a change, nearly every where I go they have driver trainers or assessor’s now I know most are drivers from said company just moved on but being agency I cannot do that so looking at training. What I would like to know is what training would give me the right bit of paper to apply to companies and who would do it in the Hull, Grimsby, York or Doncaster area I could go further for the right course.
mac12:
I am a agency driver fed up with driving so looking for another job based around driving.
FTFY
Become a DCPC Trainer in your free time.
Bribe JAUPT a grand and charge 50 quid per person per day… easy money.
mac12:
I am a agency driver fed up with driving so looking for a change, nearly every where I go they have driver trainers or assessor’s now I know most are drivers from said company just moved on but being agency I cannot do that so looking at training. What I would like to know is what training would give me the right bit of paper to apply to companies and who would do it in the Hull, Grimsby, York or Doncaster area I could go further for the right course.
There is no required piece of paper - most driver trainers are employed by their experience
You can get a RTITB assessor certificate by doing their course or perhaps being a DSA registered LGV instructor - those might help
ROG:
mac12:
I am a agency driver fed up with driving so looking for a change, nearly every where I go they have driver trainers or assessor’s now I know most are drivers from said company just moved on but being agency I cannot do that so looking at training. What I would like to know is what training would give me the right bit of paper to apply to companies and who would do it in the Hull, Grimsby, York or Doncaster area I could go further for the right course.There is no required piece of paper - most driver trainers are employed by their experience
You can get a RTITB assessor certificate by doing their course or perhaps being a DSA registered LGV instructor - those might help
Thank you Rog, have you any idea what’s involved with getting the RTITB one
Contraflow:
mac12:
I am a agency driver fed up with driving so looking for another job based around driving.FTFY
It’s what I know but fed up with long days and some office staff. There was a local firm looking for an assessor paying £25000 to work over 3 sites so thought worth looking into
mac12:
ROG:
mac12:
I am a agency driver fed up with driving so looking for a change, nearly every where I go they have driver trainers or assessor’s now I know most are drivers from said company just moved on but being agency I cannot do that so looking at training. What I would like to know is what training would give me the right bit of paper to apply to companies and who would do it in the Hull, Grimsby, York or Doncaster area I could go further for the right course.There is no required piece of paper - most driver trainers are employed by their experience
You can get a RTITB assessor certificate by doing their course or perhaps being a DSA registered LGV instructor - those might help
Thank you Rog, have you any idea what’s involved with getting the RTITB one
No but its probably on their website
mac12 - sent you PM
What about trying to get into leaconfield instructing? I don’t know what the $$ like now, but I’m sure I’d seen an advert a good few years ago and it wasn’t that great.
stevieboy308:
What about trying to get into leaconfield instructing? I don’t know what the $$ like now, but I’m sure I’d seen an advert a good few years ago and it wasn’t that great.
Thought about that but think you need all the right bits of paper for that
think you’ll find that they train you
DCPC and transport training is a joke, any monkey that saw a picture of a truck in a newspaper once can become a ‘trainer’
In the proper acredited training sphere, you would need a minimum of a level 3 PTLLS qualification to deliver training and a level 3 or 4 assessor qualification to assess.
Those that can drive - DRIVE
Those that can’t - TRAIN
dri-diddly-iver:
Those that can drive - DRIVEThose that can’t - TRAIN
So how do you explain driver trainers and LGV instructors who also drive when there is not enough trainees to keep busy?
dri-diddly-iver:
Those that can drive - DRIVEThose that can’t - TRAIN
Those that can improve there lives do
Those that cannot improve Drive
Merely posted a common phrase to add a little humour - 
wasted
ROG:
dri-diddly-iver:
Those that can drive - DRIVEThose that can’t - TRAIN
So how do you explain driver trainers and LGV instructors who also drive when there is not enough trainees to keep busy?
Confused? OCD? Indecisive? Mid life crisis? 
dri-diddly-iver:
Those that can drive - DRIVEThose that can’t - TRAIN
Could actually be very true in some cases but most drivers are not interested in training.They get their license because they want to drive.
Training someone to drive is not as easy as some may think and being an experienced good driver certainly does not make you a good trainer in most cases.
I think that may have been proved with DCPC.
Training someone to drive needs certain skills that a lot of drivers simply do not have and you will not know whether you have got them or not till you try.It certainly requires a lot of patience and the ability to treat every trainee according to their needs.
Going back to the main subject of RTITIB I would thoroughly recommend that course to anyone interested in training.
I was put through my LGV Instuctors course a few years ago now and learned so much from the experience.I had already been training for about one and a half years at the time and had an ex traffic policeman who was already RTITIB qualified observe and guide me one day a week.
I thought I was doing quite well till I did the course.They taught me so much about the various methods of training and the best ways to pass on the necessary skills.It was far from easy but very satisfying.
I also did a second LGV Instructors course a few years later when I changed employer but it was not in the same league.
Just ask yourself would you like to be trained by someone who had no more qualifications than you?
Would you go to a doctor who had no training?
dri-diddly-iver:
Merely posted a common phrase to add a little humour -
Perhaps adding a 
to the post would have helped
ROG:
dri-diddly-iver:
Those that can drive - DRIVEThose that can’t - TRAIN
So how do you explain driver trainers and LGV instructors who also drive when there is not enough trainees to keep busy?
They merely try to drive, there’s a world of difference between training someone to pass a test and driving commercially.
Did you not lose your last job as a trainer ROG due to a dispute involving
a dipstick and the amount of oil in the engine of the vehicle you were using to train drivers to pass a test in?