Industry Training & Assessment Solutions

In Victoria, on average, over 15,000 people per year obtain their first heavy vehicle licence or up-grade their licence to a higher category of heavy vehicle licence.

There is clearly not a shortage of actual drivers but of skilled drivers which transport organisations can commercialise on without having to incur costly and lengthy on-boarding/workplace induction using ‘internal’ training resources.

Drivers who have obtained a heavy vehicle licence have demonstrated that they have satisfied the VicRoads licensing threshold to obtain a heavy vehicle licence and have therefore been deemed 'competent'.

The issue for the transport industry is that the current threshold to obtain a heavy vehicle licence does not sufficiently address the higher order driving skills and thinking frameworks to adequately prepare and provide a newly licenced driver with the skills ‘capacity’ which will allow them to successfully negotiate the types of hazard-dense and challenging driving environments that they will be exposed to on a daily basis as a professional driver.

It is the gap between licence competency and actual skills capacity that results in drivers being involved in incidents and accidents that could have been avoided simply be better preparing them for the demands of real world driving by equipping them with the required higher-level driving knowledge and skills.

It is therefore Armstrongs advice to its industry partners that driver resources be evaluated and risk-profiled as to their 'capacity' to operate a heavy vehicle in 'low-risk' manner.

Armstrongs – the heavy vehicle licensing specialists – have the risk profiling frameworks which are proven to delivery real training outcomes.

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If your organisation is experiencing any of the following then a tailored training program could be right for you:

• Unacceptable levels of driving incident and accidents?
• Incident and accident rates climbing?
• Constant problem of not being able to validate a new driver’s actual driving ability?
• Don’t know which new/existing drivers need training and which don’t?
• Do your ‘experienced’ drivers seem to account for most of the incidents and accidents at your organisation?
• Do you have a compliance need to substantiate the competency and skills capacity of your drivers?
• Does your organisation need a tailored training solution to support its recruitment needs?
• No confidence in standard heavy vehicle licensing courses to meet the skills needs of your organisation?
• Are you wondering how and where to source new drivers?
• Is your internal on-boarding process costing your organisation thousands of dollars and tying up existing personnel and fleet?
• Are you ready to consider a new and innovative way to source and on-board new drivers with minimal cost?

There are a number of evaluation and training solutions available.

Armstrongs can design and delivery a complete solution which will address driving skills capacity and knowledge gaps at a different touch points in an organisation’s driver recruitment/employment cycle.

Armstrongs training solutions can be implemented as a stand-alone application or used in conjunction with other options to form a more cohesive and comprehensive evaluation and training strategy to support an organisation’s overall recruitment and retention strategy.

An overview of some of the training solutions include:

• Development of Existing Drivers to Become Internal Training Resources
• Pre-Offer of Employment/Pre-Commencement of Employment Assessments
• Post-Incident/Accident Evaluation & Remedial Training
• Intensive Motor Vehicle-to-Heavy Vehicle Training & Licensing for Recruitment Purposes