Member Since: 30 Oct 2011
Location: plymouth
Posts: 6525
HOW TO BECOME HGV DRIVER
just looked thro the rules ..it aint straight forward and not cheap..no wonder not everybody is flocking to
join up.....houston we have a problem
25th Sep 2021 12:04 am
LT
Member Since: 31 Dec 2005
Location: South West
Posts: 23824
Several thousand pounds to get the training and then wait months to be tested. In the meantime…….2006 D3 HSE (Original & still the best)-GONE
2010 D4 HSE (A bit bling)-GONE
2014 D4 HSE (Almost too bling)-GONE
2015 D4 HSE (A heated what?)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Written Off)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Surely the last!) PD1881 rims-GONE
2017 FFRR SDV8 Autobiography (now semi-retired)
25th Sep 2021 12:13 am
Moo D3 Decade
Member Since: 13 Aug 2010
Location: UK
Posts: 14388
And you also get to p155 and cr4p in a lay-by, not see you’re family and wash and clean up with baby wipes.
I wonder why people aren’t flocking to it.New Defender L663 110 SE (known as Noddy!)
Sold Volvo XC90 R-Design (known as Basil)
Sold - D4 HSE (Known as Gerty)
No longer the Old Buses original owner
231,000 miles and counting
05 S manual owned from March 2005
D4 Face lifted
Still original injectors and turbo
V8 Front brakes
BAS Remap, Allisport Intercooler and deCat
EGRs blanked
T-Max split charge
Hanibal Expeedition rack
Prospeed ladder
Duratrac tyres
IID BT
BAS FBH control
25th Sep 2021 12:26 am
Admirable
Member Since: 19 Jul 2015
Location: Fife
Posts: 1037
Plus you need your CPC
25th Sep 2021 6:14 am
robpenrose
Member Since: 12 Jan 2016
Location: Surrey / SW London
Posts: 2138
Compared to what driver facilities you get in France, the UK is shocking.
Maybe it’s time trucks are redesigned to be self contained with toilet and shower rooms etc
Current: D4 HSE
Previous: BMW Z4M Coupe
Previous: Land Rover Defender 90 CSW Td5
Previous: Land Rover Discovery Td5 ES
25th Sep 2021 6:15 am
Farmer Chalk
Member Since: 06 Mar 2013
Location: Independent Republic of Kentishshire.
Posts: 4195
The CPC part is probably the most irrelevant part… you have to show the tester how to tie certain knots, and drive economically…
Probably how they should be teaching them is how to avoid idiots on the road who treat the road like a race track. It’s not uncommon whilst overtaking another large vehicle for car drivers to undercut you at high speed on the inner lane when you are indicating and about to pull back into lane one. You have to spend your life in the mirrors looking for idiots…
Plus last minute junction swervers who pull across you to turn off the motorway….. or queue jumpers who try to push in last minute at a congested junction and then stop in front of you in lane one whilst trying to force themselves in….
You’ve got me started now…
25th Sep 2021 7:26 am
M3DPO
Member Since: 22 Sep 2010
Location: Notts.
Posts: 8225
Not to mention you've got 40 tons a few inches behind you!It can when others can't,
It will when others won't,
It goes where others don't.
25th Sep 2021 7:56 am
Stevepd
Member Since: 06 Mar 2018
Location: Wiltshire
Posts: 392
I used to drive having (still got my Class 1). I found it boring but so unorganised I felt I couldn’t take this for the rest of my working life. Somebody in work said they’re 100,000 short but there are 600,000 licenses still valid but not in the trade. That figure may be wrong as it was yesterday , but it was a decent amount. I did also have my ADR but let it slip as there was nothing around me to warrant retaining it, then I moved on. I suspect I’m not the only one…….visiting from www.rrsport.co.uk
And you also get to p155 and cr4p in a lay-by, not see you’re family and wash and clean up with baby wipes.
I wonder why people aren’t flocking to it.
They don't even stop in a layby for the first one. A two-litre bouncing-bomb into the central reservation or onto the verge.
2015 Volvo V40
2014 D4 HSE
2006 RRS - C'est mort. Fin... ...It's alive! Oh no, it's not - scrapped.
2019 Suzuki Kingquad 400
2017 RamRod Taskmaster 1150
1977 John Deere 2130
25th Sep 2021 11:38 am
Lrstaylor
Member Since: 03 Oct 2018
Location: Kent
Posts: 616
Stevepd wrote:
I used to drive having (still got my Class 1). I found it boring but so unorganised I felt I couldn’t take this for the rest of my working life. Somebody in work said they’re 100,000 short but there are 600,000 licenses still valid but not in the trade. That figure may be wrong as it was yesterday , but it was a decent amount. I did also have my ADR but let it slip as there was nothing around me to warrant retaining it, then I moved on. I suspect I’m not the only one…….
You pretty much have it right, iv got my class 1. It was 25 years ago its still . Maybe that's why I teach people to ride motor bikes.
25th Sep 2021 4:35 pm
Erea
Member Since: 19 Mar 2012
Location: Munster
Posts: 1509
I know I shouldn’t post this but …
25th Sep 2021 9:37 pm
Paul J.
Member Since: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Leafy Cheshire
Posts: 7621
You need to join the ‘Off Topic - Politics’ sub-section for your answer*.
* By which I mean you can read lots of squabbling about the subject. An ex-Disco3 / FFRR owner ......
..... now on the JLR electric highway.
25th Sep 2021 9:53 pm
LT
Member Since: 31 Dec 2005
Location: South West
Posts: 23824
Erea wrote:
I know I shouldn’t post this but …
The same applies to all the seasonal workers in fruit, crop, poultry picking/processing and etc. 2006 D3 HSE (Original & still the best)-GONE
2010 D4 HSE (A bit bling)-GONE
2014 D4 HSE (Almost too bling)-GONE
2015 D4 HSE (A heated what?)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Written Off)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Surely the last!) PD1881 rims-GONE
2017 FFRR SDV8 Autobiography (now semi-retired)
25th Sep 2021 10:31 pm
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, but it was a decent amount. I did also have my ADR but let it slip as there was nothing around me to warrant retaining it, then I moved on. I suspect I’m not the only one…….
25 years ago its still 
