CPD UPDATE Following our update re courses last week we can now announce some dates for the CPD courses to be run in the following areas. Bristol: Friday and Saturday 5th and 6th September Plymouth: Friday and Saturday 26th and 27th September Oxford: Friday and Saturday 17th and 18th October Dates for other venues will be advised in the near future but watch this space! These will be in: Gillingham, Kent Cambridge Leicester Stoke on Trent Doncaster Middlesborough Falkirk or Dunfermline Please let us know if you would like us to reserve a place at a suitable venue for you at the usual address below. All the courses we run will be a fantastic investment for you (at only £275.00 for the two days) and your CPD portfolio. Our first course is now with the external CPD accreditation organisation who are assessing and advising us how to make it the best and most suitable course for you to invest in. We cannot stress highly enough that driver training is being modernised and that we at Phoenix are leading the way out of the draconian tell em approach into a much more client centred fresh approach and it is beginning to work as more and more companies sit up and take notice of us. We were recently complimented by a large insurance underwriter that we stand out head and shoulders above some of the large traditional and well known training organisations. Obviously they must remain nameless but suffice to say I am really proud of our work. We have been asked if delegates can just do one of the days and the answer is YES we can accommodate that at the price of £150.00 per day which may be better for some delegates as they try to raise the capital to invest in these courses. Some trainers just need to brush up on their presentation skills as we move into a more client centred approach to workshops and some just want an introduction to fleet training with no desire for carrying out workshops. We can accommodate either or both! ACADEMY UPDATE We are finalising our first trainer induction days into our academy and the trainers whose names and cvs we have will be notified of two potential training days in the next few days by separate email. Those who wish to be included but havent yet sent us their cv, please send it to us at the address below for your chance to be incorporated into our academy. It costs nothing to join and on the induction day you will be led through the changes to the way fleet training will be run in the future, how our paperwork all ties up and the way we carry out client engaging reports. You will then receive a certificate of membership, membership card and a star rating. Our star rating will work in the following way: Our 3 star trainers will be able to carry out all in vehicle training for cars and light vans up to 3.5 tonnes Our 4 star trainers will be able to carry out all that and also present and carry out workshops. Our 5 star elite trainers will be able to do all the above and also driver cpc and other LGV related work, and PCV (Buses) We stress that you dont have to hold a fleet badge to undertake fleet training but it always enhances your credibility if you hold qualifications in the area of training you are carrying out. We will shortly be announcing our second CPD course based around LGV training which will be a one day course to understand the differences between the two modes of transport. Any trainer we use will be to the best and highest standards in the profession and will apply correct dress code, personal standards and will operate in the best professional manner to make our profession proud and of course the more work we get due to customer satisfaction, the better it will be for us all. We will also be encouraging you to be the best by incentives such as trainer of the month and annual training awards where the best will be rewarded and we hope will help those who wish to improve continually. FLEET NEWS Team Big Wheeler V’s Team Skid Mark!? As a trainer I have heard all sorts of things that annoy drivers. The one that really seems to stand out is when car drivers say how much truck drivers annoy them and when truck drivers say how much car drivers annoy them. So have both parties got a point, or is only one of the parties at fault? From experience, here is what the car drivers say about truck drivers: They always change lane regardless of if they can or not They take forever to overtake They push you over out of the way They drive too close They won’t let you in when you want to join the motorway/dual carriageway They are a danger to the people on motorbikes/push bikes Do they really need all of the road at junctions/roundabouts? From experience, here is what truck drivers say about car drivers: Car drivers don’t understand the blind spots on my truck They just sit at the side where I can’t see them They always try to get out in front of me They ‘hog’ the centre lane of the motorway Don’t they understand that I have to take up this position to turn left? They always want to take my space from me They haven’t got the right of way on the slip road Why do they try and undertake me when I’ve just let them out onto the carriageway? The list for both parties could go on and I’m sure you get the general picture. I’m also sure that to some degree we can all relate in some way to the feelings of both parties. But is it all as it seems or is there more to this than meets the eye? Do we, as trainers, have some responsibility in all this? Lets think this through. Firstly, those responsible for the enforcement of road safety are struggling to do any more than they are already. Secondly, you can keep trying to engineer your way around problems, but new ones will take their place. Finally, there are still improvements to be made in the education and driver training. So what can we do better? We need to turn our awareness into a full understanding. If we start with our awareness, we would all agree that trucks are BIG and can be slow! Sadly, for most car drivers, this is all they have to work with. But whose fault is this? The answer is simple. Those who are responsible for educating the car user to use the roads! What is seldom recognised by car drivers is that trucks carry different loads; sheeted metal, hanging meat, fluid and livestock, to name but a few. Are trucks really slow when we think about it this way? Both types of road users have ended up with deep-seated ideas, often off the back of something that happened once! This then leads to an assumption that this must be the case on all occasions. No smoke without fire! An example might be the affectionate names given to drivers of vans – ‘White van Man’ or ‘Man in a Van.’ Are all vans white and is every one who drives a van male? The situation becomes more confusing and complicated the more we think about it and it will not be solved with the wave of a magic wand. How would you begin to deal with the problems? Remember [email protected] is the way to give us feedback, ask advice or get guidance and also to ensure you book your place on our CPD courses as soon as possible and to apply for work in our busy times ahead! Catch you next week!
Posted on: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 14:33:48 +0000
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