Training
Licence classes are the spine, but a driving career usually stacks tickets: the licence, the goods you can carry, the yard gear you can operate, the passengers you can take. All of it is here.
Licence training
- Heavy Rigid (HR): the workhorse class for local freight, tippers and buses. Available from two years on a car licence, no LR or MR needed first. Training in manual and automatic.
- Heavy Combination (HC): prime mover and semi-trailer work. Requires an unrestricted MR or HR held for a year; the training covers both the vehicle and the coupling, because the trailer is the half that catches people out.
- Multi Combination (MC): B-doubles and road trains, the top of the ladder. From HR you'll pass an HC assessment before MC training starts, and a medical assessment is required.
Not sure which class the job you want actually requires? The licence ladder maps every rung and its gate, with the eligibility rules cited to Transport for NSW.
Industry courses
- Dangerous goods training: handling, storing and transporting loads that need more than a licence. Often the difference between two otherwise identical CVs.
- Forklift licensing: the yard-side ticket. Freight jobs load and unload, and drivers who can work both sides of the dock get picked first.
- Bus driver authority: the authorisation for passenger work, from school runs to charter.
Ask about a course
Tell us which training you're after, or just the job you're chasing, and we'll come back with what it takes from where you are now.