If you are learning to drive a lorry in Kent, there is a good chance your test will be at the Gillingham LGV test centre on Ambley Road. Here is what to expect, from finding it to the moment the examiner hands you the result.
DVSA lists the centre as Gillingham LGV, at Ambley Road, Gillingham, ME8 0SJ. You will also see it called Medway Ambley Road, including in places on this site. It is the same lorry test centre.
Gillingham also has a separate test centre for car driving tests. When your booking comes through, check it says Gillingham LGV so you head to the right place.
If you find older directions online, go by the address on your DVSA booking confirmation.
The practical lorry test is two parts. Part 3a is the off-road test: an S-shaped reverse into a bay, plus uncoupling and recoupling if you are taking a test with a trailer, such as Class 1. Part 3b is the on-road test: vehicle safety questions and about an hour of driving, including around 10 minutes of independent driving.
You pass the on-road test with 12 or fewer driving faults and no serious or dangerous faults. Part 3a can also be taken with an approved private test provider, so when your dates are confirmed we tell you exactly where each part will be.
The Medway area is a real test of lorry driving: busy roundabouts, dual carriageways, town streets with parked cars, and junctions where you need to plan your position early in a long vehicle. None of that is a reason to worry. It is a reason to train on those roads before test day rather than meet them for the first time with an examiner beside you.
Our training centre is at Sittingbourne Logistics Park, Swale Way, Sittingbourne ME10 2FF, and our instructors train Kent learners on the roads around the Gillingham LGV centre every week.
Missing documents mean the test is cancelled and the fee is lost, so lay them out the night before.
DVSA publishes lorry test pass rates for every test centre in its large goods vehicle statistics on GOV.UK, broken down into the off-road and on-road tests and updated once a year. They are a useful guide to how demanding a centre is. What moves your own chance of passing far more is how many hours you spend behind the wheel, one to one, on the roads the test uses.
Most people who fail do it on something they can do perfectly well in training. A calm morning helps: arrive early, have a short warm-up drive, and go through your show me, tell me answers out loud once.
If you make a mistake, keep driving. The examiner only stops the test if your driving is a danger to others, and a single driving fault on its own does not fail you.
Ambley Road, Gillingham, ME8 0SJ. DVSA lists it as Gillingham LGV and it is also called Medway Ambley Road. It is a different centre from the Gillingham car test centre.
It is DVSA's lorry (LGV) test centre for the area. The practical lorry test has an off-road part (3a, the reversing exercise) and an on-road part (3b).
The rules are the same at every centre: 12 or fewer driving faults and no serious or dangerous faults on the on-road test.
Yes. DVSA publishes lorry test pass rates by test centre in its large goods vehicle statistics on GOV.UK, updated once a year.
Yes. We train from Sittingbourne Logistics Park and our instructors use the roads around the Gillingham LGV centre with Kent learners every week.
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