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I was driving coaches before I applied. I had originally wanted to apply long before I actually did but back then I didn’t feel I had anything like the experience or skills they were looking for on the applications. But after being in my coach driving job for 3 years I felt ready to apply. I...

It also classes an essential reason as going to work if your job can’t be done from home. We can’t get our handling hours in from home, we also can’t cover shifts for currently qualified driver who can’t come in due to self isolating as we havnt qualified, we also won’t be able to fill the gaps...

Don’t read the rule book bud, is of no use to you at the moment or for the tests and won’t set you up well for the future when you don’t understand what your reading. Best bet is to not get to eat up about the testing, your obviously worried about it and going over bored on the prep may wind you...

Dont worry there’s no maths test during the assessments for trainee driver

To be honest bud I think the only reason there putting us through them is because they get 21k in funding for each one they put through it. For me it’s pointless, I do absolutely nothing different to the normal trainee course and some other person in an office somewhere uses my test results and...

Think the apprenticeship courses for drivers are now a level 3 apprenticeship. Equivalent to 2 A-levels. Pretty sure they said it’s level 3 that we are doing but I’ve been off so long due to Covid that I can’t remember

The post asked what tests a prospective driver has to pass before being accepted as a trainee and then gave eyesight and colour blindness as examples. I’m pretty sure they wanted to know about the others as well. If we are just talking about the medical it still involved eye sight, colour...

Bit different to mine and every other trainees experience lol

Yer had the first rise back in May and will have the final one same time next year. The rises are done at set times, the first one is after 36 weeks (unless by some unheard of miracle you qualify before 36 weeks then you will get it early or if you take more than 2 weeks off due to your own...

By the time you guys finish Induction, PTS, Intro to Ops, Rules, Traction, Slow depot moves, Principals of route learning and any traction conversion you might need to do, I reckon things will be more back to normal so you’ll have a long stretch of front ending while the back log of people...

Nice one bud!

Good work with the weight loss bud. Ive been stood down for the last 9 months due to corona and still no sign of when I’ll be going back driving. I’m finding being stuck at home isn’t really helping me to lose weight. Best of luck with the rest of the process

Unless the guy ahead of you is clicking the button like a man possessed lol. I was thinking what the hell is he watching on his screen. The guy just after me got an easy ride though.

When I did mine my BP was a bit on the high side, the doctor let me sit still and relaxed for 10 mins after my first go. She then tested it a further 2 times until she was satisfied it was coming down and that it was high in the first place mostly due to white coat syndrome. Although she did...

Is a relatively thorough medical exam. Height, weight, bmi, sight, drugs and alchohol, hearing, blood pressure, ECG and questions on previous and current medical conditions and any current medication.

Not to want to make you any more bitter but I’ve been one of those having “a nice rest” for nearly 9 months now. I’d love to be back at work, I didn’t put all that effort in for months in the class room so I could then sit at home. It frustrates the hell out of me but at the end of the day a...

Yer you should first get a conditional offer with a provisional start date, the the conditions being that you pass the medical, DBS and references.

What you know about the company. Why you think you would be suitable for the training. If you saw somebody breaking rules/procedures what would you do. I can’t remember any others sorry, was 2 years ago now. Best of luck mate

Achieves whittling down the number of candidates. Be hard to give you all much longer than a few minutes per question as there is so many people after the job they’d never get through all the videos. Anyway it doesn’t really matter how either of us see it I suppose, as it’s just another step...