I would look at this post from another angle concerning training.
I was in a large factory last week who use agency drivers, the office was full of available drivers and there was some work to be done.
In the hour I was there I witnessed 7 or 8 drivers who couldnt do the job because they had not been trained on automatic gearboxes or digital tachographs.
Nurse, my truck wont start 
At the end of the day there is any amount of training on offer that any driver wishes to take.
The original subject of this thread was tacho training in driving schools.
This IS available - but if a person books in for practical training and pays the cost for practical on the road training that is what they get.
If a trainee wants Tacho training then there are courses available ast most schools.
No training school or individual instructor can take a new driver and teach them EVERYTHING there is to know about trucking - in one week!! It is up to the new driver to find out what he/she needs to know and go for the appropriate courses.
Right now the new driver passes the medical to make sure they are fit to drive.
Then they take the Theory and Hazard perception.
Then the practical on road training - and that is it.
They have covered the basics required to BEGIN to be a trucker.
There is a whole volume of stuff that can or should be learned as well, if and when needed.
Tacho training
Hazpak Training
Roping and Sheeting
Experience on a multitude of different gearboxes
Experiences on different types and different sizes of trucks
The list is endless and if a new driver had to, by law, cover every element of trucking before being allowed the licence then the training courses would take around six months and who would want or could afford that??
If you want to learn something then find a course and do it - its out there if you want it.
Thing is though, Wendy, everyone moans and whines about the cost of training, and then on the other hand moans and whines that we arenât treated seriously as professionals.
Once upon a time people served an âapprenticeshipâ with a company, be that as a driverâs mate, trailerboy, plumbers labourer, brickie, nursing auxilliary, whateverâŚthatâs how people gained their qualifications to be considered competant at their trade.
These days itâs different, and all skilled trades have to be prepared to invest in training to further their careers. Even with extensive tacho training etc. the time and cost involved is still way below that for many other trades. All skilled workers basically fund their own qualification these days, so whereâs the problem? Why should drivers be an exception? And why the hell should they be expect to be taken seriously as a trade if they are not prepared to do the things that skilled tradesmen do?
Canât have it all ways.
These days itâs different, and all skilled trades have to be prepared to invest in training to further their careers.
I agree with all that Lucy has just stated.
The original question was - âWhy dont they teach tacho training in LGV driving schools?â - and the answer is that they do - it is just a seperate course at a seperate cost and 90% of the trainees just dont want to invest in that. They would rather pick it up as they go along, as I have been told on many an occasion. So there you are. Everyone wants the short cut and the easy way out.
Yep, sad but true. 