Driving Ambition is a new training scheme that puts people in the driving seat for a career in the commercial transport industry.
Claimed to be the first of its kind in the North West, the first 100 people to sign up at Driving Ambition’s Widnes Business Park training and test centre could see them pass their larger goods vehicle CAT C+E test in only eight weeks for £1,900.
Not only is this half the price of similar training courses but also enables those looking for driving work to become proficient in less than half the time it currently takes, namely eight weeks.
The Widnes centre is the only one of its type in the region to employ its own DVSA approved examiners, cutting test waiting times to three days and ensuring that upwards of 20 people are able to pass through the its gates each week to become qualified drivers.
The first trainees are already approaching the end of their course and will be looking for LGV driving jobs with a range of blue chip employers earning in excess of £30,000 a year.
Driving Ambition’s move is aimed at tackling the demand for qualified drivers – logistics and transport operators are struggling to recruit and it’s estimated that an extra 150,000 trained drivers will be needed by 2020.
The centre features the latest training facilities to fast-track people through the LGV qualification as quickly as possible.
This includes an outside manoeuvring area, a new fleet of training vehicles and a team of experienced instructors to equip candidates with the skills and certifications for a commercial vehicle driving career.
DVSA approval also ensures that people can be trained and tested as an integrated package, in the process helping to relieve the bottleneck on test availability.
Adrian Daulby, Driving Ambition’s director of operations, said: “Our training programme provides a springboard for those looking to either get back into work as drivers or start a new career in the commercial transport sector.
“We are offering a unique opportunity for people to gain job ready skills at a fraction of the cost of alternative training courses and in considerably less time. It’s a winwin.”
Driving Ambition is a one-stopshop training and testing programme that enables people to gain their CAT C and C+E licences, which qualifies them to drive LGVs.
Once qualified, a resourcing team works with the drivers to identify the right opportunity for them and place them into work.
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