The HGV Skills Bootcamps are part of the Government’s Lifetime Skills Guarantee, helping everyone gain skills for life. HGV Bootcamps are intense training courses and are designed to quickly train individuals in the skills required to drive HGV vehicles. The courses are being rolled out to address the current HGV driver shortage that is impacting the supply lines in the UK. These Bootcamps are short intense driving courses that will train applicants to be ‘road ready’ with either a Category C (Rigid) or Category C&E (Articulated) licence.
Working as an LGV Driver can offer you a rewarding career route. You are on the road traveling to many different locations across the UK and sometimes even further! You get to focus on your practical skills – the complete opposite of a 9-5 office job.
Once fully qualified, the average driver’s salary is lucrative at approx. £30,000 per annum in the UK. If you are a keen explorer, lorry driving gives you the licence to travel. If you are operating over long-distance journeys, your job will take you all over the country, with each day providing an exciting new view.
However, the realities of working as an HGV Driver may come as a shock to some as the hours are long, and there is a lack of comfortable roadside facilities. It can be unsociable, which has contributed to many drivers leaving the industry.
These are things you should consider carefully when deciding of this is the right career route for you.
Following your successful application, you’ll be provided with all of the relevant skills, knowledge and information about training for your HGV Driver license and what the career route and Bootcamp entails. Your journey to becoming a qualified driver will include:
We are currently operating in a huge range of locations across the UK! This will change from time to time, so please check our vacancies page for the most up to date information.
To be eligible you must be: aged 19 or over, have the right to work in the UK. You can be employed, self-employed or unemployed and seeking for work. You must hold a full UK driving licence.
PLEASE NOTE, YOU MUST WANT TO WORK AS AN LGV DRIVER AT THE END OF THE PROGRAMME TO BE ELIGIBLE.
Fill in this contact form: Upon completion, a member of our team will be in touch within 7 days to discuss your application and a member of our team will be in contact within 48 hours.
Read our blog post here, which covers frequently asked questions about the HGV Skills Bootcamp programme as well as further UK Gov resources.
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