Recent content by TT66

Hi everyone, I'm a qualified driver with an FOC. I have a mate who has applied for the scotrail vacancies. He has passed the online assessment and passed the telephone interview, he's been told to keep checking his emails for the classroom assessment date. Now I know some tests have changed...

You can do as you wish on your days off, however if you've worked a 50hour week driving trains and then work your days off driving coaches then this could become dangerous. Would all depend on the amount of hours etc but if was just a couple of days a month then I wouldn't even mention it.

You were told wrong! They have just taken on a load of internal and external trainee drivers!

https://firstgroup.hua.hrsmart.com/ats/js_job_details.php?reqid=8698 A job to get your foot in the door and useful in becoming a mainline driver! Plus there won't be the hundreds applying

Jambo is right in that with db as soon as you sign one core route you are productive and get full salary! May be different with other focs/tocs I'm not sure!

They have two new simulators which will now be part of the training. The current trainees have to do 150 hours with mentor and then 75 on simulator. This is part of your train handling hours so I've been told. Would imagine freightliner will do a similar thing for there trainees. 75 simulator...

Db still is 150 hours but then there's x number of hours on the simulator aswell. I would say for HH 6months to do the handling would be a more realistic estimate!

I don't see this job getting the usual 1000's of apps. I mean its been advertised a while and there was nothing at all on the forums. As far as I know it's basically a depot driver then a chance of mainline after 18months productive.

https://firstgroup.hua.hrsmart.com/ats/js_job_details.php?reqid=8482 great chance to get on the mainline! Good luck

No travel perks for freight I'm afraid but you do get plenty of time off:)

Great opportunity to get a foot in the door and onto mainline! Good luck to those who apply!

Just stay calm and relaxed! Think about your response and give as much detail as possible. Also have back up examples because they will ask you for another example if your written example is not strong enough. Mine was a lot less relaxed than 'The Apprentice' interviews although i could just...

Anybody know the shift patterns for this one? 12 hour days? Strange it didn't say anything about living within an hour of the depot.

Well done matt,Have you got a driver managers interview first?

Sounds like they will be doing the managers interview first! You will be asked questions like what do you know about ATW? Why do you want to be a driver? How would you cope with a fatality etc? Im sure theres lots more info on here about the managers interview. Can i ask are you from wales? Im...