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Become a professional truck or bus driver.

From the truck licence to courses lasting several months: our further training for goods and passenger transport – with 40 teaching units per week and funding options via the employment agency (Agentur für Arbeit).

Licence & initial qualification

Truck driver training

Professional driver – class C/CE

Duration
4 weeks
Lessons
40 teaching units per week

Requirements

  • Class B driving licence
  • Minimum age 21
  • Physical & mental fitness
  • Good German, spoken & written

Contents

  • Introduction & instruction on the vehicle
  • Practical training drives
  • Special drives
  • Preparation for the theory & practical exams
  • First-aid course

Driving & manoeuvring training

  • Precision training at low speed with modern drawbar combinations
  • Driving in real traffic incl. eco-training on modern drawbar combinations

Accelerated initial qualification

under the BKrFQG

Anyone who wants to work as a professional driver in goods transport within the EU and obtained or obtains their truck licence after 10 September 2009 also needs an initial qualification. Licences obtained before that date are exempt.

Duration
4 weeks
Lessons
40 teaching units per week

Requirements

  • Age 18 for C1/C1E
  • Age 21 for C/CE
  • Class B driving licence
  • Physical & mental fitness
  • Approved licence application for C/CE
  • Good German, spoken & written

Preparation for the IHK exam under the BKrFQG

  • Technology, driving physics & kinematic chain
  • Social regulations
  • Risks & safety in road traffic
  • Load securing
  • Behaviour in emergencies
  • Health, prevention & physical condition
  • Crime & smuggling of illegal immigrants
  • Regulations & knowledge in goods transport
  • Company-related conduct
  • Economic environment & market regulation

Courses lasting several months

The Plus versions additionally include subject-specific German lessons and require German at level A2 or higher.

TQ 1

Professional truck driver

Duration
5 months
Lessons
40 teaching units per week

Requirements

  • Minimum age 21
  • Class B driving licence
  • Health & mental fitness
  • Good German, spoken & written

Contents

  • Licence training for class C/CE
  • Accelerated initial qualification & IHK exam preparation
  • ADR tank & basic
  • Load securing under VDI 2700 ff.
  • Precision training C/CE
  • Forklift training
  • Truck loading crane training
  • Skills assessment
  • Work placement

TQ 3

Professional bus driver

Duration
5 months
Lessons
40 teaching units per week

Requirements

  • Minimum age 21
  • Class B driving licence
  • Health & mental fitness
  • Good German, spoken & written
  • Reaction & performance test

Contents

  • Licence training for class D/DE
  • Accelerated initial qualification & IHK exam preparation
  • Load securing under VDI 2700a
  • Labour & social law provisions
  • Road transport law
  • Vehicle technology
  • Precision training
  • Digital tachograph training
  • Skills assessment
  • Work placement

TQ 1 Plus

Professional truck driver

Duration
5.8 months
Lessons
40 teaching units per week

Requirements

  • Minimum age 21
  • Class B driving licence
  • Health & mental fitness
  • German at least A2

Contents

  • Licence training for class C/CE
  • Subject-specific German lessons
  • Accelerated initial qualification & IHK exam preparation
  • ADR tank & basic
  • Load securing under VDI 2700 ff.
  • Precision training C/CE
  • Forklift training
  • Truck loading crane training
  • Skills assessment
  • Work placement

TQ 3 Plus

Professional bus driver

Duration
5.8 months
Lessons
40 teaching units per week

Requirements

  • Minimum age 21
  • Class B driving licence
  • Health & mental fitness
  • German at least A2
  • Reaction & performance test

Contents

  • Licence training for class D/DE
  • Subject-specific German lessons
  • Accelerated initial qualification & IHK exam preparation
  • Load securing under VDI 2700a
  • Labour & social law provisions
  • Road transport law
  • Vehicle technology
  • Precision training
  • Digital tachograph training
  • Skills assessment
  • Work placement

Funding options

Education voucher (Bildungsgutschein)

The WeGebAU programme supports the further training of low-qualified and employed workers. For this, the employment agency (Agentur für Arbeit) provides a so-called education voucher (Bildungsgutschein) under certain conditions.

Requirements may include

  • Entitlement to benefits under SGB II or III
  • Minimum age of 18 or 21, depending on the course
  • Proof of health fitness by a medical certificate
  • Ophthalmologist's report
  • No relevant entry in the driving aptitude register

For employers

Qualified staff and further training move your company forward. Gain more through qualification – we help you do it!

The Federal Employment Agency supports the further training of your employees with the WeGebAU funding programme. Funding covers further training carried out within existing employment with continued payment of wages.

We will gladly inform you about further funding options and their requirements.

Related offers

Professional Driver (BKF)

All 5 BKF modules for trucks and buses – with us in just one week.

Forklift licence

Training for safely operating forklift trucks – theory and practice.

Funding & education voucher

Get your licence funded through the Federal Employment Agency.

Truck & bus licence as a fast course

Advice on courses and funding

Which course fits and which funding is possible – we clarify that in a personal conversation.

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