martin2345uk
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I’m in Manchester so it’s about 45 mins to an hour’s drive. But still don’t fancy chancing the M6 in the morning hence the plan to stay in the hotel where are you coming from?
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I’m in Manchester so it’s about 45 mins to an hour’s drive. But still don’t fancy chancing the M6 in the morning hence the plan to stay in the hotel where are you coming from?
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martin2345uk
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Ah mine is the next day, 24th!
I’m at 1300 on the 24th. Coming from right down south near Portsmouth hence why I’m pleased it’s at 1300hrs
It all kicked off this morning. I’m pleasantly surprised that they evaluated the applications so quickly. Glad that I’m no longer refreshing my email every two seconds. 29th August in Crewe. Happy days. Good luck to all. Commiserations to those who didn’t get the nod this time.
Snap pal! Im an hour exactly away! Crewe is where i wanted so i Hope they take that or im screwed!ha
martin2345uk
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Anyone else with me at 9am on the 24th??
My email just says this.. reason why I am bothered .. I don’t want to think I’m going to only do one test and then click the link and then have two! And haven’t mentally prepared for both! Haha. So is this just standard email or did others say both tests?
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PaulBusDriver
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Im in at 9am on the 24th, coming up from Kidderminster so its a 6am head out of home for me. I'm usually out the house at 6 so its not a big upheaval
martin2345uk
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Mine said both - but, even if you do log on and find both, you don't have to do them both, you can do the SJT and it will save your result meaning you can log out and do the VSE later on...
Thank you that is helpful to know
martin2345uk
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Gosh that is an early start dude!
PM'd you mateYeah me - I'm staying in the hotel, coming up from London
I assume you’ve done the other one fairly recently? In my original email they said we had to do both in my email as it was Freighliner’s policy? I’ve attached a snippet
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Usually I’d say perhaps you’ve already done it and passed for another TOC?
But the email did say even if you’ve done these tests before, Freightliner require you to do them again. I’d say it was therefore an error.
It’s best to get in touch with them and ask in case it ends up costing you by missing one.
However you do have an email stating only one test so that would help you if anything was to come back on you
martin2345uk
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Has anyone been sent any practice material for the DFFT test? It's not mentioned in the pack they've emailed but it says we will have to do it on the day, seems a tad harsh!
There were three attachments in the email. One large 84 page book by RSSB and some of their own practise material (OPC).
Yeah thanks everyone. It must be a mistake!
martin2345uk
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Ah right you are - my email programme only shows one attachment at a time, it always catches me out!
Bloody hell the DFFT looks like a beast!
I thought that, and I couldn’t even begin to get my head around it in the few minutes I checked it out earlier. I’m hoping the ones on the day are more intense than difficult. From the one I did a few years ago I was pleasantly surprised to find the practice material was more complicated than the actual assessments
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The DFFT is very similar but I would say harder on the actual test. It's also very hard time wise (20 in 15 mins). So don't dilly or dwell. Stay calm work fast and trust your answers I would say. It's all logical and the answers are all there so nothing to catch you out bar the pressure.
Agreed the Dfft is hard. But just take your time. I managed to get to question 14 out if 20 and passed at enhanced. Just take your time and don't rush into any mistakes. I thought I'd failed it but heard it's all about accuracy. Good luck to all. Mines on 24th at 9am, my birthday, hopefully I don't have to retake tests again too and have asked the question.
I completed mine on Thursday too which was the day before the last day I was allowed to complete them. I’d imagine there’s hundreds to get through hence why they say allow 25 days?
Similar boat to some, passed all the tests listed for the assessment centre with another toc in Feb 18 to the enhanced pass mark so ive emailed to see what I do now as Im coming from Wolverhampton on 23rd at 1300. Does anyone know the training salary as it only mentioned competitive on the advert
yes have no idea what score i got but i know i passed it
I'm sure £29 to £30k was mentioned here somewhere as a training salary, the £47k once fully qualified with a year or so under your belt? Not 100% on that though? I did a forum search and read somewhere that it was £18k for a few months, before rising to £24k and then steadily rising up to £37k still whilst training. The thread I found was very old though, so I'm hoping my first figures were more accurate
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I did my tests on 9th August not heard back yet 
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