1-2 days
From £420 + VAT
Novice Courses - Candidates must have a car licence
Experienced Courses - Candidates must have experience of driving/shunting the vehicles to be used.
If you have candidates that do not have a car licence that you would like to complete a yard shunter course please give us a call to talk about a bespoke programme.
Yard Shunters / HGV Shunters are operatives with the training and skills to ensure the movement of large vehicles safely around the site, within the company’s premises and in other areas of off-road parking that are closed to the public. They are trained to help minimise the risk of accidents that may cause workplace collisions that could lead to serious or fatal injuries.
This course will cover how to safely manoeuvre laden and unladen trailers, in accordance with strict health and safety guidelines. This includes inspecting vehicles and trailers and completing safety assessments to ensure correct handover procedures are met when passing goods on to other workers.
The yard shunter / HGV shunter training course will help to ensure the safety of workers when moving vehicles on-site, by helping to improve awareness of risks unique to depot environments and to help increase safety by understanding the correct coupling/uncoupling procedures.
Drivers will be taught how to be aware of potential dangers and to know the recommended HSE code of signals and to be able to manoeuvre large articulated vehicles and trailers around the site in a safe and efficient manner.
This course is for those who are looking to become a yard shunter / HGV shunter with little to no experience of working as a shunter, the course would be 2 days dependant on the operatives' experience and class of driving licence. For those candidates that do not hold a Class B driving license, a bespoke training course can be tailored to fit requirements upon request.
For those who have previous experience as a shunter and are looking to either refresh their knowledge or expand on their current skillset, the duration of the shunter course would be 1 day, dependant on the operatives' level of experience and class of driving licence.
It is more beneficial to you if we carry out the training at your own site to enable us to make the training specific to the vehicle movements you require. However, we can deliver a generic programme at our training centre in Devizes.
This course is run over either 1 or 2 days depending on the level of the candidates' competence. Competent drivers should only have to complete 1 day of training with us, novice drivers will need to complete 2 days of training. Our course starts from £420 + VAT depending upon the candidates' previous experience and level of driving license held.
The course is specifically tailored to each customer, but will include:
On completion of the course, successful candidates will receive certification stating that they have passed and completed a Yard Shunter / HGV Shunter programme incorporating the above training elements.
If you would like to discuss availability send us a date request and we will give you a call back to discuss your requirements.
Date requestIt’s important for us, as a business, to ensure our staff are fully trained to carry out their daily duties. We take Health and Safety very seriously which is why we use Wttl to make sure all of our staff are aware of their duties and take due care and attention whilst performing them. We have been using Wttl for many years now for all our driver/transport training and they are very flexible to our needs. All our shunter training is carried out by Wttl on site at a convenient time for us. The trainers are very friendly and focus on the Health & Safety of operators and those around them. The fact that we have used Wttl for many years and hope to continue using them is testament in itself.
Charis Lewis, B V Dairy
