Every day I see at least two sometimes three training vehicles on the road , I know someone who works at the training centre & most are there through the job centre or government re training programme , with a large part of the military now redundant ,many of which will either have or retrain as an hgv driver where are all of them going to work ? Most places are getting rid of drivers , then there is experience issue , it seems to be the easiest retraining programme available ,all at the cost of the tax payer but it seems the only ones benefiting is the training company …
Also around these parts I have seen a 7.5t training lorry pulling a small car trailer that couldn’t even been seen in the mirrors , what is that all about? Pointless it seems …
Sent whilst sat in a sunny layby in pembrokeshire …
Well as most think that there are a lot of jobs within transport so they all train to do that then find the harsh reality of it all when they come to look & start asking who will give me a start with a nice shinny top of the range lorry I fought etc see this all the time in the New & wannabes forum
They have been given this misconception by the press & certain brokers
Maybe theyre looking at it in the same light as the foreigners, if you go to an agency, they will place you in work, so long as they earn money out of it, thats a fact cos it happens in our company, and no one in the office has the know how to spot a real driver if he was the only one on the planet, and yes, we drivers can spot one blindfolded. Its a great shame when newly qualified drivers cannot get a start because they have no experience, why is it that a training company cannot be set up, in different areas, to train drivers in the various methods that will be needed, i am sure that a newly qualified would pay, IF, he would be guaranteed a start, of course it would be beneficial to hauliers as well.
Strange really that NVQs can so easily be available for most trades, but transport is always left behind where training is concerned, even an oldie like myself could pass on a lot of knowledge, but companies do not want to employ a know it all, and there is no way forward for an experienced driver, yet they will take on a novice, make them a trainerand send them out with someone who has been in the trade for nearly 50 years, then we hire many agency drivers, who have none or very little experience, who dont know one end of a fridge from the other..and yet none of them get any kind of training or induction, and the company wonders why they putred` in the trucks, and blue in the fridges, ad blue in the radiator ( thinking its antifreeze ) and fill the truck up with oil till you cant get anymore in the filler tube.
No jobs? Theres 3 class 1 jobs at my place, soon to be 4…
Saaamon:
No jobs? Theres 3 class 1 jobs at my place, soon to be 4…
Well don’t be shy , share the info, I’m sure there’s people looking who will be interested…
Maybe they are all training up for when Sept 2014 hits and the EU goes to ■■■■?! I was under the impression that the goverment stopped funding hgv courses as people who were on benifits and didnt wana come off them would purposly fail their tests in order to stay on beniofits?! At least thats what y instructor told me 2 months ago?
The Jobcentre’s success is measured on how many people it can get to to sign-off. Providing training is just one of its gimmicks to ‘prove’ it is doing something. Like most government operations, the staff are motivated mainly by keeping the cushy jobs they already have.
Many trainers (and especially training agencies) don’t care if there is work out there - as long as they can keep new trainees coming through the door why should they care? They are not part of the haulage industry they are part of the training industry.
Redundancy training schemes are there to unload their problems (the redundant) onto someone else. The newly trained driver is no longer redundant, he/she is now a ‘fully trained professional, ready to start a new career’.
Like a set of double glazing salesmen, they don’t care if their product is needed as long as it can be sold.
And before someone gets on my case, I have worked as a trainer and have sold double glazing (back in the 1980s when people did need/want it).