Yard Shunter and HGV Shunter Training: A Simple Guide for Beginners

Anyone who needs to move Heavy Goods Vehicles and HGV’s with Trailers around safely in a restricted area or where other workers, such are warehouse staff might be needs training to avoid accidents and incidents.

Yard shunter and HGV shunter training can help you do just that.
And it’s a great way to start a career in transport or logistics.

What is Yard Shunter and HGV Shunter Training? 

Learn how the controls and how move lorries in yards and tight distribution areas, connect and disconnect trailers, drive and reposition the vehicles (and trailers) safely, while following Health and Safety guidance and site rules. Learn and become confident in demonstrating he universal hand and arm signals used to communicate and inform the driver of obstacles or hazards that they need to be aware of to manoeuvre the vehicle safely and avoid industrial workplace accidents.

What Will You Learn? 

As well as the above, understand how to work in a busy yard, or on the road leading into the site location, and how your actions affects others including Forklift Operators, HGV Drivers, Pedestrians and other road-users.

What Do You Need? 

To join the training, you should also be at least 18 years old and in good health.  This training could be delivered to people with no previous experience although they are likely to need longer training.

How Long Does It Take? 

The training usually lasts at least a day (depending on the number of people attending the training session), and is a combination of practical lessons, where you get to drive the trucks yourself, off-road if you don’t hold a Large Goods Vehicle licence.
You will also have some theory training to learn the rules and essential safety requirements.  
And at the end of training, you will take a test to show what you have learned, so that a Certificate of Attendance and Competence can be issued.

Why Take This Training?

Accidents caused by moving lorries at the workplace caused 2 deaths, 79 major injuries and 249 over-3-day injuries to employees in the 'freight by road' industry, in the 2009/10 work year. Accidents included drivers being crushed whilst coupling trailers to trucks, being hit by other vehicles (particularly fork trucks) while out of their cabs, and people being crushed by reversing vehicles.

This course is essential for those working in transport, logistics, or delivery services to help learn the skills involved in driving bigger, heavier vehicles and trailers safely.

When can this training take place?

Please give us at least two weeks notice, but simply call our office on 0208 453 3440 to organise.

How much is the training?

Please give us some details of your location, the number of people for training, based on the below costings.