Do you like driving?  Looking for a new Career?

You might like to consider the range of jobs available in the world of Logistics.

Using your car licence there are plenty of delivery and courier driving jobs on vans of all shapes and sizes up to 3.5tonnes.  If you are already doing that kind of work and want to progress on to a bigger vehicle and a higher grade of licence then a LGV – Large Goods Vehicle Licence is ideal for you.

Obtaining an LGV C (formerly known as HGV Class 2) will enable you to drive larger, heavier, multi-axle, rigid-body vehicles up to 32tonnes.  These vehicles can have a range of different bodies fitted to their chassis that are designed to meet the needs of the industry they will be used in.

For example, a Tipper Lorry could be used in Construction or Highway maintenance. Councils or Companies with contacts for Waste Disposal will use Refuse Vehicles sometimes known as Dust Carts, or Garbage Trucks.  And of course, Skip Lorries are also used for Rubble and other types of General Waste.  Or, if the HGV is fitted with curtain-sides it might be used in bulk-delivery work and to ease those deliveries, some of these vehicles have a truck-mounted forklift hung from the back of the vehicle (so the driver can unload the goods and deposit them in the yard or depot or factory for their client).

Some HGVs that are designed to collect and deliver building materials and have a Lorry Loader Crane, sometimes known as a Hiab, fixed to the chassis which is often behind the cab of the vehicle, but depending on the length of the truck the crane could be fitted to the middle or even the end of the chassis.  Many drivers come back to our school and top-up their HGV licence by gaining an ALLMI qualification (the leading Lorry Loader Crane accrediting body) so they can expand their job opportunities and work with Builders Merchants making deliveries to households or businesses to support their building projects using either a Hook, Brick Clamp or Clamshell Bucket attachment.

You can drive LGV C vehicles if you hold a LGVCE licence.  And some people, even though they plan to work with Rigid Vehicles, do complete training and test for the top licence (sometimes known as HGV Class 1), so they get all the HGV licence entitlements at the same time.

But you don’t have to.

And indeed, due to the time and cost, some people choose to take LGV C because it is easier and quicker to get that licence first.  And they can always come back to do CE later.  Or, maybe their employer will help them get a CE licence in the future.

There are more LGV C type vehicles on the road than LGV CE.  And you can get a perfectly good and well-paid job with a LGV C licence (especially, if you a newbie without experience in the logistics industry).
So, if you are interested in finding out more details about our Accredited Training with our Qualified Instructors, as well as costs to get your HGV Licence please call anytime between 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday.

You’ll be under no obligation to make a booking.