Shane Whitney took and passed his HGV class 2 today at the FIRST TIME attempt. He did this without handing over a penny. This is because Shane completed a level 3 customer service BTEC through the advanced learner loan and the college, Any Driver Ltd. Upon completing that course, we were able to help Shane get his medical, theory, hazard perception tests and the practical driver training with the test at the end of it. Well done to Shane. Now all he needs is to complete his d

We were keeping it a little low, just in case but Dan, who passed his class 2 test yesterday at the FIRST TIME attempt, had his mod 4 driver CPC test today. I don't know why we were worried... No need to be as Dan passed with a score of 90%. Dan has already been to see his truck that his employer is putting him on and he already has a route planned for tomorrow. Already having his digital drivers tacho card, with today's pass, he is completely legal to be driving for work. We

Josh Phillips was the latest success from Truck School, passing his class 1 test today at the FIRST TIME attempt. Josh completed a customer service BTEC diploma and as a result, had the course paid for. He already holds a class 2 licence and CPC, so the natural progression was to the artic class 1. Josh started his training with Carlie, our female HGV driving instructor. She completed all of the training including the reversing exercise and the uncoupling procedure. However,

Dan Seymour has been with us this week training on the Mercedes 18 tonne rigid lorry. Dan works for Parkers Transport in Radstock and until now, has been a van driver for them. Albeit, Dan does not yet have his CPC in hand, he can now drive the larger vehicles. Dan was able to pass his theory tests and hazard perception tests just a few weeks ago and so he went onto the list for the driver training. With a couple of trainer changes, Dan started with Anna, then had a couple of

Well done to Jay Philpott, who took and passed his class 2 driving test today. Jay has been training all week with our instructor, Carlie. Carlie has done such a good job and Jay passed today with only 3 faults throughout the entire test. Although we can never tell, Carlie has taken Jay over almost the exact route that he took today on his test. He also had the same examiner as yesterday when Jay took his mod 4 CPC. So 2 test passes for Jay this week and both FIRST TIME too.

Jay Philpott took and passed his mod 4 driver CPC test today. After a bit of training each day, he had his test at 14.50. The examiner asked if it would be possible to start 30 mins early and so we arrived at the test centre nice and early with driving licence in hand. 20 mins later and 100% score, a jay continues our 100% pass rate for this category of test!!

Hassan Ziyaee from Bristol took and passed his HGV class 2 test today. Hassan initially learnt with our instructor, Sean but was unfortunate to make a silly mistake on his reversing excercise at the test. So the earliest re test we could get for him was today - Just 14 days after his 1st attempt. After some reversing practice yesterday and also this morning at 6am, Hassan was ready for the test and although the sun wasn't shining as has been over the past few days, the examin

Ben Bodman, who works for SN Scaffolding took and passed his class 2 HGV driving test this morning. We have completed training before with the company and Ben was sent to us following him passing his theory and hazard perception tests. Our lady instructor, Carlie, took Ben out on the driver training and he got over the nerves pretty quickly. With very few kerbs hit, Ben was on the way to getting a good result at test, although nothing can ever be guaranteed. Ben passed with o

Craig Robshaw conquered the nerves and passed his class 2 hgv test today. This was not Craig's first attempt but this time, he was adamant that he wasn't going to do anything silly. A slow and steady approach to all junctions and hazards was what craig needed to make sure that he thought each situation through. Ironically, the examiner thought he was going too slow and steady at some points during the test!! Nevertheless, well done to Craig for passing today. Let's try and ge

Congratulations must be sent to Allan, who took and passed his class 1 test today. This was the FIRST TIME that Allan took his class 1 test with Truck School and he did a really good job today. Allan had been learning to drive thecartic with our head of Truck School, Mike. He works for our sponsor, Massey Wilcox and no doubt, will be out on the attics for work very soon.