Q. What qualifications route did you take to realise your career?
Initially gaining lorry licence and going on gain industry experience leading into formal qualifications through RTITB & DSA.

Q. Please explain in detail what students will learn during your course?
Students learn vehicle control, road discipline and the driving to test pattern, Training is delivered in a systematic approach to ensure all competencies and exercises are covered and progress is monitored all the way through to the satisfactory completion such through to licence acquisition.

Q. What’s the first thing you teach your students?
How to correctly enter and exit the cab of a lorry.  It's a fundamental part of driving any vehicle and the driving examiners are keen it's done properly (no jumping out the cab!)  Countless needless injuries can be avoided in such a simple way.

Q. What qualities do you need to succeed in your industry?
An instructor must be firm, fair and friendly.  A clear and logical delivery of complicated information is a must as well as the capacity to remain calm.

Q. What are the benefits of studying your subject?
Successful delegates achieve a professional vocational qualification (for some people it's first formal qualification they have ever achieved) which opens up the world of logistics to them.

Q. Please explain why you love your subject?
It's great to see the joy (and sometime relief) that someone has once they've achieved their ambition.  It's so satisfying to know that you have helped that person gain a skill that has the potential to turn their life round.

Q. What skills do your students have by the end of the course?
Depending on their chosen vocation, drivers will be able to drive up to 32 tonne rigid trucks or 44 tonne articulated vehicles.

Q. What do students normally do once they’ve finished their course?
Celebrate! And look for work with their new qualification

Q. What’s the best way to go about getting a job in your industry?
Start with the employment agencies, they may not have a huge choice of jobs for a new driver but at least it's a foot in the door. Also don't forget the job centre have a very good website with lots of transport related vacancies. Get talking to other drivers (in the transport cafe? In delivery yards? In lorry parks?) they can tell  you where to find the jobs that don't advertise.

Q. Can you describe a typical day in your working life?
Varied. Clients come from different regions/counties.  They are all interesting in their own way.  No two days are alike but all are satisfying when the learning goals are achieved.

Q. What advice do you have for people interested in studying a course like yours?
Don't hesitate - the open road awaits you!