What is the difference between Category C and C+E?

Category C covers rigid lorries over 3.5 tonnes. Category C+E also covers articulated lorries and lorries with a heavy trailer. List the one you hold.

The Driver Certificate of Professional Competence is a qualification that professional lorry drivers must hold and keep up with 35 hours of training every five years. List your card and when it expires.

How do I show that I am a safe driver?

Mention your daily checks, your drivers' hours records, an accident-free history if true and any safe driver training you have done.

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HGV driver CV example

A strong HGV driver CV states your licence category, Driver CPC status and tachograph experience clearly, along with the routes, vehicles and loads you have handled. Employers also look for a clean driving record and reliability with hours and paperwork.

Hannah Price

HGV driver

Profile

Safe and reliable HGV driver with six years of experience delivering pallets across the UK on regional and national routes. Holds a full Category C+E licence, a valid Driver CPC and a digital tachograph card, with a clean driving record. Keeps to drivers' hours rules, checks the vehicle every day and treats customers and loads with care.

Experience

HGV Driver

a pallet distribution company running nationwide routes

Drove an articulated lorry on nationwide routes, making up to six drops a day

Completed a walkaround check before every journey and reported defects to the transport office

Kept accurate tachograph records and stayed within drivers' hours rules

Secured loads and checked them at each stop, taking extra care with mixed and high-value pallets

Collected signed proof of delivery and dealt politely with customers at busy loading bays

Rigid HGV Driver

a builders' merchant

Delivered building materials to sites and homes across a 50-mile area in an 18-tonne rigid lorry

Planned the drop order with the dispatcher to keep journey times short

Loaded and unloaded by pallet truck and forklift, following site safety rules

Checked tyres, lights, oil and water every morning

Wore PPE and followed customers' site induction rules on every delivery

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Tips for a hgv driver CV

State your licence category clearly, such as Category C or C+E, and the year you passed
List your Driver CPC status and when your next periodic training is due
Mention your digital tachograph card and drivers' hours experience
Give the vehicles and loads you have handled, such as curtain-siders, boxes or bulk
Describe your routes, such as local, regional, national or nights away
Include a clean driving record, but only if it is true, since employers can check your licence with the DVLA

Applying with a cover letter? See our hgv driver cover letter example.