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Didn't know it was a train crew site, when I asked people who worked there around 5 years back they told me it is satellite site and the drivers are from Stoke Gifford.

Been watching for an external recruitment with FL for trainees at Taunton for eight years..... never happens.

That's better for me, around 45 minutes from Sedgemoor. Whatley is 59 minutes .

It is Whatley Quarry so closest town is Frome in Somerset.

Only one way to find out. When I was managing HGV drivers I had a 71 year old driver who was running circles around the younger guys. Think he is still there a year after I left . Not the railway granted but life experience was really desirable to me.

Granted on this occasion your age may not allow you to be considered on this occasion. For the future I wouldn't assume you may get overlooked entirely based solely on work exprience (unless you work for Derek Trotter every job should have risk assessments and method statements written for...

Would be good to see

Completely depends on the company you are applying with. Some are quicker than others in terms of time it may take. It depends how quickly they need to recruit and number of courses they need to fill or have. Also some companies will advertise specifically for a talent pool and not an actual...

https://jobs.deutschebahngroup.careers/jobs/JobDetail/DB-Cargo-UK-Apprentice-Junior-Trainee-Driver-Peak-Talent-Forest-Pool/93026 Another one for DB

That is interesting, I live in Taunton and was told years back that it was serviced by Bristol. Will keep an eye out for jobs there however I would expect it to be unlikely as it is so small.

Unless things have changed the site in Taunton is where the HOBC are parked up and these are serviced by the stoke gifford drivers in Bristol. Westbury and Torr Works I would imagine are the busiest freight areas in the west country. I would say freightliner heavy haul are likely to be the...

That was very quick, but from what I have seen GWR trainee vacancies go extremely quick. I think I missed 2 or 3 chances to apply in the last 12 months so I would check their careers page daily instead of relying on the email alert.

Not sure everyone I know who applied didn't get through the testing stages. I would be intrested to know as they should be in the classroom by now to hit the november target.

When I had my interview with DB back in 2014 they were doing work out there then and were keen to take people on who wanted to take the leap but I am not sure if they still do the work.

I know the advert was up for around 30 hours by the time I had the time to apply the advert was pulled. Lesson learnt and all set up on the first site now just hoping Bristol or Exeter come on again (think I am in for a long wait :lol:)