Direct access to Class 1 and Class 2 roles across the South East from 50+ regional depots. Complete your licence with HGV Training Hub and move straight into our placement pipeline.
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Passing your test and getting hired are two different things, and it helps to be straight about the gap. A licence makes you eligible; employers still assess risk. Insurance conditions, yard confidence and compliance knowledge all factor into whether a transport manager takes on a newly qualified driver.
What we do is introduce qualifying drivers to operators across the South East who already know the standard we train to. That means interviews, not guarantees. No training provider can promise you a job, and you should be wary of any that does.
Class 2 drivers most often start on local and regional multi-drop work, supermarket delivery, builders merchants and pallet networks. Class 1 drivers tend to move into trunking, container work and long-distance runs, which usually pay more but involve more nights and unsocial hours. C1 holders find work in ambulance and paramedic services, courier operations and specialist transport.
Consistently: confidence manoeuvring a full-size vehicle in a real yard, working knowledge of drivers hours and tachograph rules, the discipline to complete daily walkaround checks and report defects properly, and reliability in the first month. Attitude weighs more heavily than most new drivers expect.
Flexibility on early shifts helps enormously at the start, as does being able to talk clearly about what you trained on. Experience compounds quickly in logistics: the first six months tend to set the trajectory for what you can earn afterwards.
To talk about which route leads to the work you want, call 01634 907 229.
Most people who train with us are not chasing a licence for its own sake. They want the job at the end of it. That is why the licence is only half of what we do: we hold working relationships with more than 50 operators across Kent, Medway, Essex, Surrey, Sussex and the London fringe, and we put newly qualified drivers in front of them directly.
This is not a job board. We do not scrape listings or sell your details on. Your consultant knows which operators are hiring, which of them will take a driver with no commercial experience, and which will not — and that second list is the one that saves you months of wasted applications.
Figures below are typical annual earnings for drivers in the South East once qualified and settled into a role. Overtime, night work and weekend shifts move them upward; part-time and local multi-drop work sits lower.
The first role after passing is rarely the one people imagine. Long-distance trunking usually wants experience. What is genuinely open to a new pass, and what our hiring partners recruit for most often, is this:
Transport managers are not reading your CV the way most people write it. In practice they check, roughly in this order: whether your licence categories match the vehicle, whether your Driver CPC is valid and in date, what your licence endorsements look like, whether you can start when they need you, and only then anything else.
Two things move you up that list quickly. Keeping your Driver CPC current from day one, rather than letting it lapse and needing a Return to Driving course later. And being honest about experience — an operator who takes a new pass knowingly will train you properly, whereas one who thinks you have two years behind you will put you straight on a run you are not ready for.
Pass the practical, then keep moving. The drivers who take longest to place are usually the ones who qualify and then wait. Book the medical early so nothing stalls, get your Driver CPC hours logged, take the first role that gets you road time even if it is not the one you want, and revisit the market at six months with real experience behind you. That is a very different conversation.
If you already hold a licence and are looking for work rather than training, it is still worth a call — we are asked for drivers more often than we have drivers available. Ring 01634 907 229 and tell us what you hold and where you can travel.
Not for every role. A significant share of our hiring partners will take a newly qualified driver, particularly on rigid multi-drop, tipper and waste work. Long-distance and specialist work usually asks for six to twelve months first.
The acute shortage of 2021 has eased, but demand across Kent and the South East remains steady and the workforce is ageing. The honest position is that qualified drivers who are flexible about the type of work find roles; drivers who will only consider one kind of run wait longer.
We introduce you to operators who are hiring and we tell them what you can do. We cannot promise anyone a job, and any training provider who does is selling you a slogan. What we can say is that placing our graduates is how those operator relationships stay worth having, so it is in our interest to do it well.
Class 1 earns more and opens more doors, but Class 2 gets you working sooner and can be upgraded later. If you are undecided, call and describe the hours and the money you want — that is a five-minute conversation, not a form.