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The New Company Will Provide Driver CPC Training and Apprenticeships to the Logistics Industry and Work With Logistics Providers, Sector Skills Councils, Funding Bodies and Trade Organisations to Develop Skills in The Industry

A short video interview with Robin Brown and Ian Peacock is available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG3gtDQDnqs <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG3gtDQDnqs> . 
 

The largest logistics training company in the UK has been created following the decision of the country’s two leading providers to merge.
 
System Training and Hargreaves Training Services have combined to form a business that will operate from a national footprint of 20 training centres, and will have a workforce of over 300 employees. The consolidated turnover of the new entity is £16m - and is predicted

12/07/2010

Leading logistics industry training provider System Training has today lifted a coveted prize at the UK Warehousing Association Awards.
 
System Training collected the UKWA Training Award for its work to improve skill levels across the sector and to help drive down costs through innovative training schemes.
 
Held at the Dorchester Hotel in London, the awards ceremony recognised excellence in the third party logistics sector and attracted entries from some of the most influential companies in the logistics and materials handling industry.
 
In support of its entry System Training demonstrated how it helped the UK’s largest home delivery service reduce costs associated with fuel and garage repairs by training its staff to drive more efficiently and safely.  Home Delivery Network





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24/04/10

Three members of System Training’s female staff helped raise £600 for charity last weekend and proved to their male counterparts that driving trucks, and other specialist vehicles, isn’t just a job for the boys. Stephanie Norman, Lynda Gray and Pauline Hilton all took part in the Ladies’ Driving Challenge in aid of Grace House North East’s Children Hospice and faced lots of high-speed and high-skill driving as part of the day’s activities.

System Training supported the charity event by supplying two of their specialist HGV articulated training trucks and a team of their best driver trainers. More used to training lorry drivers for some of the UK’s biggest haulage, distribution and retail companies, System’s driving instructors were on hand

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An innovative new partnership between local authorities and leading businesses in the logistics industry has been launched in a bid to boost the economy in Cumbria.

The Cumbria Logistics Employer Forum (CLEF) has been set up to bring a range of organisations involved in the important economic sector together and offer a platform to help increase and strengthen the logistics skills pool in the region. The forum will focus on developing the area’s workforce through proven schemes such as the government’s Apprenticeships for young people and already over 30 local businesses have signed up to benefit from the framework and support.

Carlisle City Council, the Logistics Academy North West and major companies such as Carrs Billington, Sealy UK, Enesco, BOCM Pauls, Reays Coaches and ...

Two of the leading companies involved in the logistics industry have formed a strategic partnership to drive up the standard of training available in the sector.

Carlisle-based System Training, part of Logistics Academy North West, and Germany’s MAN Group have joined forces to provide training solutions that comply with the recently-introduced Driver CPC legislation, which became mandatory in September 2009.  As well as a driving licence, lorry and bus & coach drivers who drive professionally must now hold a Certificate of Professional Competence, which is renewable every five years.

In order to encourage best practice amongst its clients MAN turned to System Training, which has vast experience of providing learning within the logistics industry, to create a bespoke package for tho...

System Training has won a major new contract to train driving instructors for supermarket giant Tesco.

The national training company, a member of Logistics Academy North West, has been commissioned to deliver training to Tesco instructors - who will go on to become driver training instructors to over 3,000 Tesco goods vehicle drivers.

The deal came about after Tesco began looking for a solution to training its workforce to comply with new Driver CPC legislation, which became mandatory in September 2009.  In addition, the SAFED (Safe and Fuel Efficient Driving) techniques will help Tesco meet its target of reducing diesel consumption by 7% - as documented in the BBC’s latest Panorama programme.  In turn, the proposed fuel savings will increase company profits and reduce pollution.

A link-up between one of the UK’s leading training providers has reaped dividends for one of the UK largest independently-owned logistics companies.

Carlisle-based System Training was drafted in by TM Logistics to help roll-out an updated training package to its team of 250 drivers across the UK and also develop an internal driver instruction programme.

TM Logistics handles multi-million pound contracts for some of the world’s biggest brands, and with new Driver CPC legislation having become mandatory in September 2009 meaning that in addition to a driving licence, lorry and bus & coach drivers who drive professionally must now hold a Certificate of Professional Competence that is renewable every five years, the logistics firm wanted to make sure its workforce was not just co...