About Courses
All our courses include personalized practical road training and a unique blend of theory and hands on pre-trip inspection to ensure your training is challenging and successful. Our instructors use modern educational aids and training equipment, such as videos and classroom demos, in order to make the learning as effective and convenient as possible.
There are four separate areas to be taught to the student. These may be described as Pre-Trip (45-minutes) and 3 stages of driving, Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced, over a two-hour period.
Pre-Trip Inspection
Full pre-trip of the vehicle in the respective categories. Including a complete air pre-trip and trailer pick-up and drop-off, if applicable.
Beginning
An Explanation of clutch control and technique is required, including a short driving demonstration. Shifting technique, commencing with an introduction to shifting, followed by gear selection, up shifting and downshifting, as well as, basic cornering instruction.
Advanced
Single and multi-lane streets, as well as strategic positioning in traffic. Backing, including straight backing and offset backing.
Some of the things you will learn, with appropriate precautions and techniques, are:
- Hands-on pre and post-trip inspections
- Brake adjustment
- Situational awareness
- Straight backing
- Lane tracking during straight driving and on curves
- Cornering
- Intersection management
- Space management
- Up and down-shifting
- Starting and stopping on hills
- Driving down grades
- Free way driving
Government Approved Instructor's Courses
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Air Brakes
Class One - TractorTrailer
Class Two - Large Buses
Class Three - Straight Trucks |
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Industry Information
Career Planning
So you want to drive the big rigs? Commercial Truck Driving is an excellent choice and one of the 10 most rapidly growing career fields today, nationwide.
In today’s commercial truck driving industry the demand for drivers has never been higher. In the Class One truck driver-training course at BPDS, students are trained to enter the industry with not only the required skills to do the job, but also the knowledge to operate as a professional. BPDS students graduate with a class one BCDL and a great deal of pride in a job well done. At BPDS you will train in Kenworth conventional tractors with 8-speed transmissions.
One unique aspect of this career field is that a commercial truck driver with formal training and a good driving record is valuable to every trucking company throughout our nation. This includes local as well as over-the-road companies. Commercial trucking companies are competing for drivers by increasing driver pay and benefit packages, making more modern and driver friendly equipment available, and providing tuition reimbursement programs and/or generous sign-on bonuses to attract new drivers and recent class 1 graduates.
www.icbc.com
BCTA
www.teamsters-canada.org
PCVO
Pro-trucker Magazine and Highway Magazine
BC Safety Council
Driving School Association of the Americas
BC Fleet Supervisors Association
Job Opportunities
Human Resources and Work Futures -
www.workopolis.com and www.monster.ca
Province and Sun - www.careerclick.com
www.loadlink.ca
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