John wood took and passed his HGV class 2 test this morning in the Kingswood test centre. John took the route of funding his HGV course through student finance and a customer service course. This means that not only does John now have a class 2 driving licence but he also has a Btec level 3 diploma in customer service. John was really quite nervous this morning. A 6am start was planned and our trainer arrived at the yard at 5.45am. John was already there!! Following the rever

Oliver Brindley came back today for his class 2 driving test. He was nervous, but at the same time confident. After some final reversing practice yesterday, Oliver met at the yard early this morning ready to set off to the Bristol Kingswood test centre. The traffic was unusually light and we were able to do some really good driver training to refresh the mind, all ready for arriving at the test centre for his 8.40am test. Out he went and back he came having gained just 3 driv

Oliver Brindley is mid week ont his class 2 driver training but as we were in Bristol, we arranged for him to take his mod 4 CPC test today. Oliver obviously has passed his Mod 2, case studies test or else, he would not have been able to complete this test today. On day 1 of his driver training, we started on the Mod 4 practical training and it was clear that Oliver has done a lot of research into this test and was already quite clued up on the process and the questions that

Craig Paul was the latest success story for Truck School. Craig completed the funding route to take and pass his HGV licence. He undertook his HGV medical, his theory and hazard perception tests and this week of practical driver training and then his test. Things happened on Monday and we had to ask very nicely if Craig would be prepared to miss a day but do longer days training on the following days running up to his test. Luckily, Craig is of the mindset - Train Hard. So it

Raymond Ouattara wanted a lorry licence. He called Truck School a few months back to see how we could help him. The funding route was the option that Raymond took, which meant he completed a customer service level 3 diploma under student finance. He passed that and upon completion, he was able to take his HGV medical, his theory and hazard tests and also this week of 4 days practical driver training with the 5th day (today), being his test. Raymond managed to pass at the firs

Wayne Tanner wanted to complete his class 1 driver training. He came out to Truck School and explained that he already has plenty of experience in a class 2 lorry. Wayne did a short assessment with Mike and a training schedule was made. Wayne completed his training in our lorry as sponsored by J F Pearce and sons. He was nearly perfect in all of his reversing practice and his uncouple and recouple procedure. His driving wasn't bad either! So day of test and the nerves kick in

Paul Maggs works for Oakus. This is a local company and we have delivered training to their drivers before. Oakus helped us out when we moved to our new premises in September 2016 by painting our car parking lines for us. As a thank you, we said that we would be happy to train one of their drivers to gain the HGV class 2 licence. So it was decided that PAul Maggs would be the one to do this. Paul had no real idea of what was involved and we had no idea if he had done anything

Richard Bayliss completed a customer service level 3 diploma and as a result, was awarded his certificate and the option to take HGV driver training. Richard was out in Bessy, our 18 tonne Mercedes Atego and day 1 went like a dream. Day 2, also was a dream. Then disaster struck. Day 3 consisted of little mistake after little mistake. Richard was too busy thinking about the little things that he was not concentrating and so made more mistakes. Now the nerves had set in.. Am I

Mark Porter has been training with Truck School for a few months now.. Firstly, coming to Truck School for his class 2 test and then for the driver CPC mod 4 test. Now, Mark is upgrading to the class 1, articulated lorry test. Mark now works for A&L haulage and they have arranged for Mark to complete his artic test. Mark started his training last week on our Renault Premium artic lorry. Unfortunately due to a gearbox fault, the Renault was sent to the garage and Mark was a lo