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Is poor planning isn’t it in terms of staff care, wish you guys where ever you are all the best.

My new routine is as follows. Wake up. Spend the whole day in the house. Try not to get driven mad by the kids. Try not to get driven mad by the Mrs. Check company Coronavirus update emails. Being stood down and payed to do nothing sounds alright in theory, but in practice I’ve had enough...

That’s what it says in my email

All current trainees are being stood down with pay from Monday

We get regular email updates, nothing of note that effects drivers yet but the last one included that guards would no longer be doing ticket checks and a lot of office staff would be given the help to work from home.

If one of them has given you a actual start date pending successful medical I’d be going with that, make sure you actually get a job in the bag. Would be nothing worse than to turn a confirmed start date down for the other option only for them to pull the plug on you.

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NVQ level 3 in what?

Very true I reckon 90% of us that passed everything with freighliner including the DMI went on to get jobs with other companies before hearing anything about a course with freightliner.

Yer mate no problem, feel free to send me a msg. Best of luck

First 3 weeks were the most challenging as at that point everything was new to me as I came from coach driving. After that you have some knowledge to work from. The facilities at the academy are great and the trainers are all really good and nice people.

Ours ran, 1 week induction/PTS 2 weeks introduction to operations 2 weeks front ending 3 weeks rules part 1 3 weeks traction 1 week depot specifics/slow moves 2 weeks rules part 2 1 week principals of route learning (I also have 2 weeks of traction conversion to do next) Then comes the handling...

You could be waiting for ever to hear from freightliner. There is little to no contact from them in terms of updates while you wait either. (They might be bit quicker to get dmi done but expect to be left hanging after that). I passed everything with them and was put in the talent pool from...

Hiya, what depot are you going to be based at? The new premises for the academy has good facilities, I’m sure you’ll enjoy the course.

When you give them the answers on paper at the start of the day they just want you to be quite brief, a few sentences should be fine. They will then use that basic answer to interview you and will want lots of detail that all fits together well and doesn’t contradict anything you have already...

Hiya, can’t tell you much about GWR’s operations at shrub hill as I’m doing my training based from there with WMT but Worcester it’s self is a nice place with plenty of other beautiful places near by. As with any city there are some crap parts and nice parts close to the centre. I’d maybe look a...

And very nice your left over induction sandwich’s/lunch was today haha. What depot are you guys for in your group?

That’s good as there’s not to much left to go then, wishing you luck bud.

Make sure your C.V is put together top notch and when a position comes up drop everything your doing (if you can) and get your application done as they may close applications in as little as 24 hours. Put hours into doing your application it will make the difference. Best of luck bud.

If you have completed stage 1 then you should have done the paper and pencil tests, stage 2 will consist of all the computer based tests and your mmi. They may then do your DMI the same day or you might have to go back. This is the standard kind of structure for the testing but it can change...