Freightliner - Trainee Drivers 2022 - (01/11/21)

[martin2345uk]

Trainee Train Driver Scheme | Careers | Freightliner | G&W UK / Europe

Thought it worth starting a new post for this? But please merge with the old Freightliner trainee one if required

We are looking for enthusiastic individuals to join our Trainee Train Driver Apprenticeship Scheme across both our Heavy Haul (HH) and Intermodal (IM) areas of the rail platform.
Trainee Train driver starting salary £20,982 (HH)/ £21,939 (IM), progressing to £26,554 (HH)/ £28,208 (IM) on completion of classroom training and upon qualification rising to £56,175 (HH)/ £51,765 (IM).
We plan to run four Trainee Train Driver schemes throughout 2022, and will be looking for applicants for the following locations:

• Acton
• Bedford
• Bristol
• Carlisle
• Crewe
• Earles
• Eastleigh
• Ipswich
• Mendip
• Mossend
• Reading
• Sandiacre
• Tilbury

Good luck anyone who goes for it!

 

[New York Giant]

Thanks very much for the heads-up. Application submitted. Drive time, door-to-door, is 62 minutes but a mixture of bus & rail will see me at the Crewe site in under 50 minutes. Let's hope they take that in to consideration when sifting.

 

[Class2ldn]

They normally use Google maps to work out travel time as the majority of people will use a car .

 

[New York Giant]

I'm prepared for a knock-back, based on drive time, to be fair. An Avanti WC service does get me from Wolverhampton to Crewe in 29 minutes, although that way is far more expensive than just driving up the M6. I'll hold on to that hope, but for the sake of completing a 25 minute questionnaire I would rather have an application declined than not apply and wonder what might have been.

 

[Scotsman101]

Does anyone know the type of roster/hours for the mossend depot?
And what routes they would do?
cheers

 

[TalentpoolTel]

Hi everyone. So for those of us that have been successful and just waiting for a medical and course start date is this good or bad news? Passed the assessments and the DMI. Is this intake to replace us in the pool and we will hear something soon or push us back to the bottom of the pile? Such a competitive industry and the elation of the phone call to tell me I have been successful has disappeared somewhat.

 

[godfreycomplex]

Does anyone know the type of roster/hours for the mossend depot?
And what routes they would do?
cheers

The same question from me please, but for Acton/Wembley
Thanks

 

[Class2ldn]

I'm prepared for a knock-back, based on drive time, to be fair. An Avanti WC service does get me from Wolverhampton to Crewe in 29 minutes, although that way is far more expensive than just driving up the M6. I'll hold on to that hope, but for the sake of completing a 25 minute questionnaire I would rather have an application declined than not apply and wonder what might have been.

Always worth a go, good luck

 

[Hevs]

Does anyone know the type of roster/hours for the mossend depot?
And what routes they would do?
cheers

Same question for me please but for Bedford depot. Thanks
Good luck to everyone applying

 

[4F89]

Just for all, HH depots, you could go literally anywhere

IM, you will be going up and down the nearest ECML / WCML / Western etc. If you are at the North end, you will go south, if in the middle, North and south, and at the south end..... you can guess. Your best bet is to look on RTT and see where the trains go. A normal shift would be taking it approximately 3-4 hours from depot, then another one back after your pnb.

 

[BlueMike26]

Anyone know roughly how long training takes before you're qualified? Couldn't see a timeframe on the ad.

 

[4F89]

Anyone know roughly how long training takes before you're qualified? Couldn't see a timeframe on the ad.

Year to 18 months

 

[daddy_badger]

Got excited about this, soon dampened knowing the local depot is over 2 hours away.

 

[YingYing]

Got excited about this, soon dampened knowing the local depot is over 2 hours away.

I'm 1hr 2 min and 1hr 8 min away from my nearest two. Close but not close enough. That's the postcode lottery!

 

[martin2345uk]

I'm 1hr 2 min and 1hr 8 min away from my nearest two. Close but not close enough. That's the postcode lottery!

Still go for it if you're interested - I lived in Manchester when I applied originally, and partway through the application they offered me a role at Guide Bridge which wasn't even advertised for initially.

 

[YingYing]

Still go for it if you're interested - I lived in Manchester when I applied originally, and partway through the application they offered me a role at Guide Bridge which wasn't even advertised for initially.

I'll take you up on that!

 

[baz962]

Still go for it if you're interested - I lived in Manchester when I applied originally, and partway through the application they offered me a role at Guide Bridge which wasn't even advertised for initially.

They got fed up with you and passed you to Wembley

 

[martin2345uk]

They got fed up with you and passed you to Wembley

Tilbury thank you very much!

I'll take you up on that!

I’m not saying it’ll definitely happen, but there are two Manchester depots and you never know what might happen in the year+ or so that the recruitment process could take

 

[Midlands_lad]

Does anybody know if you have previously passed the VSE and SJT online tests will you be required to compete them again?

 

[sargentsiri]

This is fantastic, thank you for posting!

Eastleigh depot is literally an 8 minute drive from my house which would be perfect!

Would I be right in assuming they class IM work as container work, thus, most if not all of the work out of Eastleigh?

 

[w.bellis1976]

Applied fingers crossed

Cheers for posting Martin2345uk

 

[4F89]

They got fed up with you and passed you to Wembley

Hahahaaha

This is fantastic, thank you for posting!

Eastleigh depot is literally an 8 minute drive from my house which would be perfect!

Would I be right in assuming they class IM work as container work, thus, most if not all of the work out of Eastleigh?

Some HH down that way

 

[JoeEcco]

When are the four courses do we know? I have a four week holiday for my wedding in August that's already been cancelled once so dont want to postpone it again.

 

[Eebbs1912]

I've applied for mossend. Not sure I'll even be looking by the time they get through applications. I've currently got 80 hours left to qualified otm driver. Fancy freight as soon as I'm qualified though, sick of constant nights and working away.

 

[Bonzo]

Hi everyone. So for those of us that have been successful and just waiting for a medical and course start date is this good or bad news? Passed the assessments and the DMI. Is this intake to replace us in the pool and we will hear something soon or push us back to the bottom of the pile? Such a competitive industry and the elation of the phone call to tell me I have been successful has disappeared somewhat.

If you have an ongoing positive application but with no contact or start date would it be possible to apply again?

 

[4F89]

I've applied for mossend. Not sure I'll even be looking by the time they get through applications. I've currently got 80 hours left to qualified otm driver. Fancy freight as soon as I'm qualified though, sick of constant nights and working away.

Yeah, that ain't gonna work out....

 

[bcfc171081]

Thanks for posting, just applied for Bristol. Some of the questions! Blimey!! Haha

 

[Gomer Pyle]

In for Crewe. Fingers x’d. All the best guys and good luck.

 

[NumberTen]

Thanks for posting, applied last night and got the link sent over today for online tests

 

[rhys37429]

I've applied for mossend. Not sure I'll even be looking by the time they get through applications. I've currently got 80 hours left to qualified otm driver. Fancy freight as soon as I'm qualified though, sick of constant nights and working away.

Large percentage of freight work is nights.

Unless somebody can shed some light on Mossend depot to say otherwise.

Don't be detured tho.