Mark Grimmett was passing through Guildford town centre on a recent Friday afternoon when he noticed a minibus pulled over to the side of the road. Seeing smoke coming from the vehicle, he stopped his car and jumped out to see if he could help. He came upon a minibus driver and support worker evacuating […]

As one of the largest and busiest providers of lorry and coach driver training in the UK, we spend a lot of money on fuel to keep our late-model vehicles running for training purposes. We are no different from any other company in the transport and haulage industries in that we would have benefited from […]

Northern Ireland Transport Minister Michelle McIlveen may be the best friend of the logistics industry, at least for the next month, thanks to a recent announcement that all road construction projects on the main routes in Northern Ireland would be suspended through until January 4 (2016). The decision to do so was based on a […]

We do not like to spend a lot of time singing our own praises, but we felt it important to let our regular readers know that the HGV Training Centre recently made the news in a very big way. How so? By tripling our turnover in the last three years, making us the largest provider […]

You do not necessarily have to be a kind-hearted person to complete your training and get a bus driving licence. You don’t even need to be kind to hold down a job. As long as you can drive safely and treat customers with a certain amount of respect, there are plenty of PCV jobs out […]

The Driver CPC requirements implemented throughout the EU are intended to make sure HGV and PCV drivers are both competent and proficient. The idea is to reduce accidents and make the haulage and transport industries as efficient as possible through ongoing training and assessment. Yet not even the most stringent CPC driver training is 100% […]

The first-ever National Lorry Week sponsored by the Road Haulage Association (RHA) was apparently a huge success, according to organisers of the event. The RHA hopes it now becomes an annual event that goes a long way toward promoting lorry driving careers. Things went very well this year considering the fact that the observance had […]

The HGV Training Centre is one of the largest and most expansive providers of commercial driver training in the UK. As such, we spend an awful lot of money on fuel to operate the vehicles we use in our training sessions. From our HGV training in East Renfrewshire to the programmes we operate in England’s […]

Another season of British Summer Time (also known as daylight saving time in other parts of the world) has come and gone. We are now left with one hour less daylight as a result of the change. Here at the HGV Training Centre, we urge PCV and HGV drivers to be more cautious now that […]

Earlier this week we addressed an HGV accident in Tameside involving a driver who ignored road signs in favour of his sat nav device, leading him turning down a narrow and winding road unsuitable for the size of his vehicle. The driver then hit a house in an attempt to undo the mistake he had […]