Hey everybody welcome to my channel my name is Luke thank you very much for watching I do appreciate it how you doing you alright now five years ago I made a video it was entitled how much is it cost to get a HDD license and how do you go about getting one it was a video where I broke down bit by bit each module that you do and explained just roughly how much it costs to actually you know do it well now five years later I've decided to revisit the subject go through the information with you one more time give you more up-to-date information and let you know exactly how much it costs to get your HDD license in the year 2021 and how you go about doing it this is the Luke C in a HDD 2021 edition how much does it cost to get your HDD license and how do you get one stay tuned okay so straight out of the back I just want to say that the information I'm giving you today has come directly from the dot gov.uk website so the information I'm giving you is a hundred percent correct if you want to go check out for yourself a link will be in the description down below but if you want to listen to me talk about it and carry on watching this video before you even apply for your provisional HDD license you need to be 18 years old or over and you must already hold a category B license as a car license long as you got both those things then you can apply for a provisional HDD license applying for provisional HDD license okay so what you need to do now is you need to go to the dot gov.uk website you need to request that the DVLA sends you both D2 and D4 forms the D2 forms are form that you fill in yourself with you know you know your personal information you drive in license you know all of that good stuff the D4 form is the what I would call the important form is the form that needs to be filled in by a medical expert now this can either be your own personal GP via the NHS or you can go privately and pay someone to actually do it for you in my experience it costs less to go privately as weird as that sounds I've been looking around on different websites and different companies around me in the swindon area and they vary between 48 pounds and sort of 55 pounds and you know that's not too bad compared to one I asked my GP it was well over a hundred so personally I would recommend you do that privately just type in driver's medical and Google and they come up with people around you nearby they can do it but it's around about the 50 pound mark I would say once both forms are filled in correctly you need to send it off to the DVLA in Swansea it takes about three weeks for you to get your license back and then you can go and do your theory driver CBC part one test the theory the test is made of two parts multiple choice and hazard perception you have to book both parts separately but you can take them both on the same day it doesn't matter which one you take first but you do need to both pass within two years of each other okay so how do the tests work so as I've said there's two tests you got multiple choice and the hazard perception I'm gonna call them part one a and part one b part one a is the multiple choice the multiple choice questions part lasts for about one hour 55 minutes and the pass mark is 85 out of 100 questions it will cost you 26 pounds to book that test part one b is the hazard perception test and it costs only 11 pounds you're watching 19 videos and there are 20 developing hazards to spot the pass mark is 67 out of 100 and you'll be given a letter at the end of the test with the results for the theory you've just taken when you have passed both tests your HTV theories difficult will be posted to you driver CBC part two tests case studies and this one costs 23 pounds how does it work well the test is made up of seven case studies you work through on a computer the case studies are short stories based on situations that you're likely to come across in your work in life you'll be asked between six and eight multiple choice questions on each case study the test lasts for one hour 15 minutes and the pass mark is 40 out of 50 driver CBC part three driving ability now this is where the fun starts this is where you actually go and start driving a truck now obviously prices range depending on who you go with and what they charge I'm always going to give a shout out to the people that I trained with myself and Swindon which is truck school Swindon a link again link is in the description down below now on their website they're advertising a four day course with the test being on the fifth day so there's no gap between I realized I did that wrong then four day a four day training course with the test on the fifth day so there's no gap between training and test it's nine hundred pounds plus VAT which have done the calculation is one thousand and eighty pounds and then you pay the hundred and fifteen pound tests fee on top of that as well so comes to a total of one thousand one hundred and ninety five pounds that is for the four day course of training with your test on the fifth day so how does the driving ability test actually work your practical test will last for about one hour and thirty minutes you'll have vehicle safety questions practical road driving off road exercises and vehicle safety questions you will pass your test if you have fifteen or fewer miners and if you have zero majors after you've taken your practical exam the examiner will let you know if you pass and give you feedback on how you did driver CPC part four practical demonstration now this is also known as mod four which is shortened for module four if you go via swindon truck school which the company I use they are currently charging two hundred and fifty seven pounds now that is for the training itself they will teach you on all the processes that you need to learn to know to pass a test and then the test as well as included in that price two hundred and fifty seven pounds to pass you must achieve at least a score of fifteen hour twenty in each topic and have an overall score of eighty out of a hundred and that's it you passed all four of the tests you are now a qualified h3 driver you will be sent your driver CPC card in the post it can take up to twenty days for that to arrive to just bear that in mind the only other thing you need to do now is get your driver a taco card across nineteen pounds to purchase one of them a link is in the description down below and how to apply for one of them that's it your HCV driver welcome to the world of HCV driven one thing to bear in mind though is that this was assuming that you got your car license and you were applying for your category C license which is your class two as it's known in the industry if you've already got your class two license you want to go for your class one license you don't have to do your theories all over again all you've got to do is the part three practical demonstration again truck school swinging if you go to their website you can see that they can do the course for you over there so there we have it thanks for watching this video I do appreciate it hopefully you've had a good time watching and you've learned something today it's five years ago like I said since I did the last video so I thought I would revisit it and hopefully you've been doing it thanks for watching until next time drive safe stay safe and I will see you soon bye bye