Johnsons Apparelmaster are a leading supplier of workwear, protective wear and workplace hygiene solutions. With a base of over 40,000 UK‐based customers and a national coverage of local customer service centres, the company rents and launders almost 3 million garments a month.

With 250 vehicles on the road each day and 300 drivers, it's obvious that vehicles play a vital role in the company's ongoing success.

Pearson in Practice began working with Johnsons Apparelmaster to provide training to the firm's LGV drivers. The training aimed to support ongoing professional development and also ensure that obligations under the Driver CPC EU Directive would be met.

Initially training was delivered for drivers at the Letchworth depot and, based upon its success, was then rolled out across the whole company. The one day training session, 'Tachographs and the Working Time Directive', was delivered on a Saturday on the firm’s premises and later taken to depots across the country including Essex, Lancaster, Bristol and Glasgow to name but a few. In the first year, Pearson in Practice delivered 23 training sessions to over 300 drivers.

We began working with Pearson in Practice in February this year to put our fleet of drivers through the 'Tachographs and the Working Time Directive' Driver CPC training. Pearson in Practice worked with us to deliver the sessions at a time that suited us, arranging the training for a time that best fit in with the needs of our business.

Once we’d agreed a date, Peter Branning, the Pearson in Practice assessor, visited our Letchworth site to view our training facilities and make sure he had all the equipment he needed to hold the training session. Peter also requested that our drivers complete a pre‐training registration form so that the driver’s details could be uploaded onto the VOSA database, allowing Pearson in Practice to issue the Certificate of Learning on completion of the training.”

“All in all the training was very thorough, covering important topics that were relevant to the driver's work, such as EU Driver's Hours, ferry crossings, domestic hours, analogue tachograph rules and regulations, digital tachographs and digi cards.” “Each subject area was followed with a quiz or activity that demonstrated the learning and also made the training very participative, fun and relaxed with no pressure. All the drivers enjoyed it.”

“In my opinion, the whole CPC training day was set to perfection. Would I recommend Pearson in Practice? Yes I would. In fact, I've been very impressed and I have already put Pearson in Practice forward to other business thinking about Driving CPC training.”

“Pearson in Practice have structured an on‐going training plan for our drivers, essentially providing a training day a year on topics relevant to our drivers and business. All of the training means that everyone meets the requirements of Driver CPC and also means that our drivers remain at the top of their game.”