The National Infrastructure Delivery Plan announced by the government in late March (2016) calls for spending a significant amount of money to improve transport infrastructure within England, including the construction of a Northern Powerhouse that would connect cities and towns in the north and enable better traffic control in that region. It is a plan […]

Driving around many parts of the UK and encountering such a large volume of unnecessary and pointless signs can sometimes give one the impression that you need HGV lessons just to make sense of it all. It should not be this way. And thankfully, with new rules being implemented on 22 April (2016), local councils […]

Spring is here and the pace of classes is beginning to pick up here at the HGV Training Centre. We see this every year, with more people calling to sign up for HGV training as the weather turns nicer. If you’ve been thinking about earning a commercial driving licence to operate lorries, buses or vans, […]

We train our counterbalance forklift drivers in the UK because we know the importance of safety on the production floor. We also know that legislation requires employers to provide a minimum amount of training to ensure the safety of all workers, vendors and customers. But counterbalance forklift training is just the beginning of safety. Being […]

Late last year (2015), we published a blog post discussing the robust sales observed in the used van market. The data behind that post indicated that companies were looking to shift from smaller lorries to larger vans for a more efficient local delivery system. They were willing to buy used vans to get them to […]

Surveying motorists about who they think are the worst drivers reveal that the white van man does not have a very good reputation among the general public. If public perception is to be believed, drivers with a van licence are among the most dangerous on the road. The good news for van drivers is that […]

We talk a lot about the driver shortage within the haulage industry, and rightfully so. But the transport industry is in an equally dire situation. They are also short tens of thousands of drivers in a day and age in which public transport could be struggling to survive in its current form. Bus and coach […]

There is a lot more to being a forklift operator than meets the eye. Operators who go through our forklift training know this because our thorough training approach covers all the details. Still, we wonder how many other training programmes are as in-depth. Should that be a concern? Absolutely. Forklift trucks can be dangerous vehicles […]

It is now official: the government has decided it will not alter its position on HGV training costs despite the fact that the current driver shortage threatens to become completely overwhelming within the next 12 to 18 months. We know it’s official because of a statement made by Department for Transport minister Lord Ahmed in […]

PCV driver training covers a lot of things, but theft by primates is not one of them. That’s too bad for one Spanish bus driver who recently found himself at odds with a monkey that had somehow managed to get into his window as he drove down the road. A video published by the Mirror […]