First driver from job scheme

Thirty year old Matt Lindsay has been employed having successfully completed the free programme, which combined a short period of study at Southampton’s City College along with an intensive driver-training programme. He has now achieved a full C+E driver license.

The course, which was supported by a number of the City’s logistics firms, Job Centre Plus and Southampton City Council, was designed to help alleviate the chronic shortage in HGV drivers within the logistics industry and offered applicants both professional training and a guaranteed job when they qualified.