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When your Provisional PCV Entitlement arrives, we recommend an Assessment Lesson

Our instructor will evaluate your current driving skills, relevant driving experience and training needs.  We then provide you with training recommendations and an accurate training quotation based on those findings. 
          Our Assessment Lesson gives you the opportunity to visit our school and try our vehicles and establish for yourself the quality of our training and school facilities, without the obligation to make a course booking.
 

Need the Forms to apply for your Provisional Licence?

Phone us in office hours and we're happy to send them to you FREE of CHARGE
 
 

PASSENGER CARRYING VEHICLE LICENCE CATEGORIES

PCV D1-minibus
PCV D - restricted
PCV D - All types

Up to 17 seats

(inc. driver)

Buses or coaches

with automatic gearbox

Any type of bus or coach

with manual gearbox
     

Each of the above categories are not affected by the number of seats or the type of body, i.e. single or double-decker, service bus or saloon coach body. For example, passing your test on a single deck vehicle will still give you a licence to drive a double deck vehicle.

 

OUR PASSENGER CARRYING VEHICLE TRAINING VEHICLES
Are easy to drive, current production models and are representative of
In-Service vehicles with all the features of modern passenger vehicles


Denis Javelin Manual Coach Training Vehicle

  

 

Our PCV manual training is conducted on a Denis Javelin:

• Good Manoeuverability and all-round  visibility
•Powerful 8.3 litre Cummins engine with low noise levels
• Easy to use controls with power assisted steering & clutch
• 47 seats, 10 metres long
• Simple 6 speed ZF gearbox
• ABS Breaks
• Electrically heated windscreen and mirrors
• Oil Fire Heating
• Regularly maintained to a high standard

 

Did You Know?

If you already hold an Automatic Bus Licence you can obtain a coach licence after passing your test on either on a Manual Coach or on a Lorry.


If you decide to take lorry training and test, as our lorries have manual gear boxes, not only will you obtain a LGV C (HGV Class 2) licence to drive a 32 tonne truck, but you'll also 'upgrade' your Automatic Bus Licence to a Manual Coach Licence.  But don't forget to do this you will also need to get Provisional LGV entitlement and pass an LGV theory test before sitting your LGV Driving Test.

And likewise, if you already hold LGV C (HGV Class 2) lorry licence you can get an all-types Manual Coach Licence after passing your test on a Automatic Bus, but again you would need to hold provisional PCV entitlement and pass a PCV theory test to do this.

 


Optare XL2 - Automatic PCV Training Vehicle

  

Our PCV automatic training is conducted on an Optare XL2:

• Good Manoeuverability and all round visibility
• Powerful Mercedes 230 BHP Euro 3 engine with good Acceleration
• Fully automatic gearbox with built in retarder
Power assisted steering
• 31 seats, 10 metres long with dual doors
Kneeling facility, allowing passengers to get on and off more easily
• Wheelchair access ramp
Internal middle door television monitor~
• ABS breaks
• Tachograph
• Regularly maintained to a high standard at manufacturers approved facilities

Many people choose to obtain an Automatic Bus Licence because it is easier to learn to drive than a manual coach and there are plenty of opportunities for working as a bus driver. For example, all of London’s Red Buses are automatics.
 
 
Our instructor Tom Moran is demonstrating the Optare's kneeling facility
and the Wheelchair access ramp



Minibus Training Vehicle
 

PCV minibus training is conducted at Wembley on a Ford Transit

• 17 seats

• 5 speed gearbox
• Car like controls
• Car Type Hydraulic brakes
• Anti-lock brakes
• Excellent all round visibility

• Meets and complies with latest DSA Test Vehicle legislation

 

If you want a job driving a Minibus for a School or for Private Hire, or to drive a stretch limousine, you will need to obtain a D1 licence by passing a PCV driving test.

People who obtained their car licence before January 1997 may hold restricted D1 entitlement to drive a minibus for social and pleasure, but anyone wanting to driver a vehicle with over seven seats for Hire and Reward will need to test the driving test to obtain full PCV entitlement.
 
For information on our costs click here
 

Boost your career prospects with a CPC

Gain your Passenger Certificate of Professional Competence, a managers qualification, with our comprehensive Home Study Manual or by attending one of our Intensive Course Courses and passing the CPC Exam, which takes place 4 times a year, March, June, September and December.   Further details available on request.
 
 

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