Bogdan Todor

Started my own Driver CPC Centre to conduct CPC training

After so many years in the transport industry, I decided to apply for Transport Manager CPC.

I have managed externally 7 transport companies looking after the compliance, Drivers, inspections, Audits and desk based assessments.

Due to buying a house in Aylesbury, I choose to leave the full time job at Waitrose and start again as an agency driver.

In the past years, I have worked only as a HGV Class 1 Driver for:

Arla/Muller with milk deliveries to stores or depots - Fridge Trailers

Superdrug delivering for main street stores Superdrug and Savers - Box Trailers, one, two or three axles and some rear steer axles, depot to depot double decker box trailers.

Gist delivering to M&S stores - fridge trailers all sizes again plus rigid with draw bar trailer.

After a few years working for the agency, a night shift became available, and I applied for the full time job as a HGV Class 1 Driver for Waitrose from Bracknell. I did the same job as when I was an agency driver. In the summer of 2019, I had Shunter training and I started doing shifts on nights moving trailers around the yard. On a 8 hours shift I was moving around 100-150 trailers.

I have work for companies like Cormar Carpets delivering carpets to carpets stores in London. I drove a 18 tonnes lorry in London for almost a year for them on the week days and every other weekend worked for Morrisons/Sainsburys delivering to the stores. After that, I worked for Serco, the bin collection service in High Wycombe area for 6-9 months.

On 2016, I decided to get the C+E. I started working for an agency doing curtain side work for GEODIS single and double decker trailers. after some experience gained, I moved to another agency that offered me a job on Waitrose, in Bracknell, delivering to Waitrose stores around south and southwest of England all the way to Truro. I used single and double decker fridge trailers. Single decker trailers with one, two, and three axles and some of them with rear steer axles.