UK Van Driver Training

We offer van driver training across the UK and can start training from your office anywhere in the UK. We already help a number of companies in the UK that have identified the need to train their van drivers.

We provide training in a range of vans, the most popular being the Mercedes Sprinter and Ford Transit/Luton-type vans. Most of our training is for small and large vans up to 3,5t, which can be used on a normal B car licence. We can also provide training for Cat C and C1 commercial vehicles.

Who We Help?

A. New Van Drivers – Employees who have recently been employed and need to drive a van or current employees who are starting to use a company van. We help ensure they have the skills and ability to drive a van regardless of their level of experience safely.

B. Bumps & Scrapes – Employees who drive a van yet are having near misses, scrapes and accidents, which is causing a major concern within the company.

C. Duty of Care – Companies that wish to demonstrate their duty of care and raise the level of safety of their van drivers across the fleet. We can train between 1 and 100+ van drivers.

 


Course Content:

The objective of our courses is to make safer van drivers who have fewer incidents, fewer insurance claims, and improved MPG.

We cover the following:

  1. Observation & Planning 
  2. Speed awareness
  3. Being a responsible van driver 
  4. Understanding Road Rage
  5. Driving Law
  6. Reversing and Mirror Use
  7. Skid control
  8. Adverse Weather/Rain/Ice
  9. Van Load Awareness and Impact on Driving
  10. The Difference Between Cars vs Vans
  11. Other bespoke elements based on your specific driver 
  12. Advanced cornering techniques

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Vans and (Too Many) Bumps – Why?

Many van accidents involve low speed and reversing errors, which are almost always due to a lack of observation and poor spatial awareness. We help develop both. Often, a van driver fails to alter their driving and manoeuvring “thinking” when moving from a car to a van.

This is a key reason why vans are involved in more accidents at lower speeds than cars. We help to create more of a “van style” of thinking with all drivers taking a course with us. After one of our courses, you will get a van driving report that is emailed to you as a record of the training that has taken place. We measure van drivers both before and after training so you can see how they have improved. 

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Price & Course Duration:

The price for a full day is £380.00 + VAT; if split between two drivers, this is £190 a driver. A single one-off 3.5hr session on a day is £250 + vat