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To get your HGV LGV driving licence or your PCV Bus driving licence at the right training cost, the National Driving Centre can provide you with our ‘All Inclusive’ guaranteed price so,
‘What you see … is what you pay!’
NDC is a unique Driver Training Company
Choose and click on your category!
Costs can vary between £1,000 and £3,000 depending on whether you choose an agency or a LGV training school, the location and what is included within your training. To ensure you get the right training course for you, research thoroughly and compare like with like.
See our full list of prices here.
Apply to the DVSA for your provisional licence by phoning NDC and we will send you all the information and forms that you will need. Book an LGV PCV drivers’ medical with an online doctor. This will cost you about £55. Search LGV PCV medicals.
Fill out the forms and tick both categories C and D (lorry and bus) even if you only want the one category do the other one because in the future if you change your mind, it will save you money as you now have all the provisional categories.
Send all the forms off with your licence to the DVLA. Remember you will need a ‘large class stamp’. Your licence will be returned within roughly ten days.
Call NDC for a driving assessment in the vehicle of your choice.
This is FREE as we believe that you should meet us and we can meet you so we can assess your current driving ability and to ensure that you choose the correct course.
There is no obligation to continue if you don’t want to. It’s FREE.
Anywhere between four and seven days. You will be told during your assessment.
Usually five days for a C (lorry) or C+E (artic) and seven days for D (bus) and four days for C1 (7.5-ton lorry) or D1 (minibus).
Not with NDC. However, be careful with other companies and especially with LGV/PCV agencies or brokers.
Another training company or agency may quote the cost for a 5-day course at £1150 and you think – that’s a good price but what they don’t tell you is:
Assessments – are they FREE?
You should always have a driving assessment to make sure of your ability and that you are doing the right course for you. They are FREE at NDC.
Theory tests – are they extra?
CPC module 2 – is that extra?
CPC module 4 – is that extra? (you can’t drive professionally without this qualification)
Does another company or agency want to give you a half or full day course to teach you module 4 and charge you a small fortune for it?
Should you need a retest – how much are they?
What a complete waste of time and money!
At NDC we teach you the syllabus while you are with us saving you time and money with your test conveniently during your course.
All these additional costs are included in your All Inclusive course at NDC.
Quite simply – ask them and see what they have to say for themselves.
Are you an agency or a broker?
The agency route may suit you but all we say is be careful and establish
the true cost:
before handing over your credit card as it will be one of the first things they ask for!
From sending off your provisional licence forms to taking your practical test – about six weeks with NDC.
NDC is conveniently situated in Croydon, south London and is on all major bus, train and tram routes.
National Driving Centre, Territorial Army Barracks, Mitcham Road, Croydon CR0 3RU.
020 8688 4666.
Unlike other training companies that can meet you in the street or other unsuitable locations, NDC has their own purpose-built training centre with ample free secure parking on site.
NDC have their own purpose built training and test centre in Croydon, south London. With reception, classrooms, reversing area and all other training requirements are on site. We even include FREE tea and coffee in the students’ classroom!
Quite simply – convenience for NDC and familiarity for you. There are very few HGV LGV PCV test centres in and around London, the nearest being Enfield or Guildford.
Being a government approved test centre allows us to train and test from our own premises in Croydon.
It allows us to organise our own tests when we want them for our own students.
We have greater access and control of the tests, so if you should, unfortunately, need a retest, for example, you don’t have to wait for weeks as you might with others trainers. We have our own bank of tests.
More importantly, your training time is not spent travelling to and from a test centre which may be miles away.
It all may seem very confusing just to drive a big vehicle. With all the tests and the meaning of lots of different things it can seem quite complicated but in fact, it’s really simple once it’s broken it down into small pieces.
All you questions big or small are answered here. Feel free to call us if you have any additional questions.
The National Driving Centre is a Government Approved Driving Test Centre.
Your vehicle awaits!
available from 07:30 – 18:00
We have received information from the DVSA that the changes announced (being able to go straight from a Car licence to a Class 1 | C+E Lorry) will not become law and therefore in effect until at least 15th November 2021.
Until the law changes you will still have to train in a Category C | Class 2 lorry first before going to C+E.
Do you have the provisional entitlement on your licence to drive a lorry? (Have you had a medical and sent application forms off with your driving licence to the DVLA in the past?) If you’re not sure you can enter your details here and check.
If no provisional entitlement is there, that is your first step!
Amazing! Give us a call and we can invite you down for a free driving assessment and give you further information and expert advice on getting your chosen driving licence.
Let us help – Whether you want the Class 2 | Category C or Class 1 | C+E licence, you still need to fill out the application forms, have a medical and send your licence to the DVLA.
At the moment the D2/D4 forms you will need have not been updated to add the ‘C+E entitlement box’ onto them. So we suggest adding a cover note on your form asking for the ‘C+E | Class 1 entitlement to be added’.
NDC cannot guarantee this will happen as before the anticipated law change on 15th November, things are not clear for any individual, training company or Government department, such as the DVSA or DVLA. NDC will always give the best advice we can, with the information we have
Click the button above and fill out your details for us to send you the D2 & D4 forms as soon as possible with an accompanying email with advice and video guidance on how to fill them out and how the training process works!
This will be a strange transitioning period for everyone with the new legislation changes on testing and training. Here at NDC we will try our very best to continue to offer expert advice and training to help you achieve your chosen licence with the end goal of getting that amazing new job.
We thank you for your patience,
Team NDC
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