Companies all over the UK are hard at work preparing their 2016 budgets before the close of the year. Assuming you might be one of them, we have a question: do you operate forklift trucks on your premises? If so, is forklift truck training in your budget for 2016?

There is an old saying in the business world that says ‘a lack of responsibility on your part doesn’t constitute an emergency on my part’. In some cases, the saying is absolutely true. In other cases – particularly where poor government planning is involved – it is not. An example is the recent closure of […]

At the HGV Training Centre, we take great pride in the bus driver training we offer. Unfortunately, we cannot cover every possible scenario the future bus driver might encounter. Our training is designed primarily to prepare drivers for the PCV test regimen. The truth is that bus driver training does not cover everything. It doesn’t […]

Local authorities in Shepway have made it very clear that they are not happy with lorry drivers who have a habit of pulling over to the side of the road indiscriminately at night. They recently passed new parking restrictions that prevent overnight parking on 19 local roads from 8pm to 7am during the week and […]

A shocking video containing footage shot by a dash-mounted cam and published on the ‘Scotland’s Worst Drivers’ website demonstrates just why the cameras are becoming so popular among HGV drivers and their employers. The footage shows a car driver apparently repeatedly hitting the brakes, purposely, in front of an HGV driver who just happened to […]

The staff here at the HGV Training Centre has the privilege of working with all kinds of people who come to us looking for training. And because we train hundreds of people every month, we hear all sorts of questions as well. We thought we would take the occasion of this blog post to address […]

The announcement of a brand-new shipping hub to be built by UPS at London’s Gateway container terminal garnered not more than a yawn among those not directly related to the logistics industry. However, the news should be exciting to companies like ours that train commercial drivers. What UPS plans to do in London is just […]

If you were lucky enough to participate in this year’s (2015) running of the Bonhams London to Brighton Veteran Car Run on 1st November, you might have also caught a glimpse of broadcasters Chris Evans and Alex Jones. Along with Ken Bruce, the pair was among the celebrity drivers who got behind the wheels of […]

We have trained a lot of very good men and women with great lorry driving skills. Never have we put our training to the test with a blind driver. So imagine how thrilled we were when we learned that a 53-year-old with his name already in the Guinness Book of Records set yet another record […]

Did you know that horseboxes and horsebox trailers are capable of so much more than just transporting horses? It’s true, as one enterprising business owner in Northampton has discovered. The 25-year-old entrepreneur from Weston Favell purchased a used horsebox trailer for £600 and converted it into a full-service Mexican kitchen he now uses to provide […]