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- The centre assesses, and Highfield Qualifications awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Highfield Qualifications.
The Highfield Level 3 Diploma in Driving Goods Vehicles (RQF) is designed to support roles in the workplace, particularly in driving articulated/drawbar vehicles, rigid vehicles, and vans. It combines knowledge and practical skills necessary for successful performance in driving operations.
These are the units Highfield Qualifications registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with Highfield Qualifications. It does the teaching and the mapping. Highfield Qualifications sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Allocate and check work in your team in logistics operations Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to allocate and check work within your own team in logistics operations
- Allocate and check work effectively within your own team in logistics operations
Apply technology in logistics operations Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Apply technology in logistics operations, considering its benefits and limitations
- Apply technology effectively in logistics operations to improve efficiency and accuracy
Arrange the transportation of goods using multiple transport modes Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the criteria for arranging the transportation of goods using multiple modes of transport
- Arrange the transportation of goods using multiple modes of transport, in accordance with relevant regulations and organisational procedures
- Identify potential problems that can occur when arranging the transportation of goods using multiple modes of transport
Build and manage teams in logistics operations Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Build and manage teams in logistics operations
- Build and manage teams in logistics operations
Contribute to the provision of customer service in logistics operations Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute to the provision of customer services in logistics operations
- Contribute to the provision of customer services in logistics operations
Couple and uncouple the articulated or draw bar vehicle Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Couple and uncouple the articulated or draw bar vehicle, following the correct procedures and safety precautions.
- Couple and uncouple the articulated or draw bar vehicle, ensuring secure connections and preventing damage.
Dealing with payment transactions in logistics operations Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Deal with payment transactions in logistics operations, adhering to security protocols and company guidelines.
- Deal with payment transactions in logistics operations, accurately processing payments and maintaining records.
Develop productive working relationships with colleagues in logistics operations Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to develop productive working relationships with colleagues in logistics operations.
- Develop productive working relationships with colleagues in logistics operations.
Drive the Rigid Vehicle on Public Roads in a Safe and Fuel Efficient Manner Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Drive the rigid vehicle on public roads in a safe and fuel efficient manner
- Drive the rigid vehicle on public roads in a safe and fuel efficient manner
Drive the Van on Public Roads in a Safe and Fuel Efficient Manner Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Drive the van on public roads in a safe and fuel efficient manner
- Drive the van on public roads in a safe and fuel efficient manner
Drive the articulated or draw bar vehicle on private roads in a safe and fuel efficient manner Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Drive the articulated or draw bar vehicle on private roads in a fuel efficient manner
- Drive the articulated or draw bar vehicle on private roads
Drive the articulated or draw bar vehicle on public roads in a safe and fuel efficient manner Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Drive the articulated or draw bar vehicle on public roads in a safe and fuel efficient manner
- Drive the articulated or draw bar vehicle on public roads
Drive the rigid vehicle on private roads in a safe and fuel efficient manner Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Drive a rigid vehicle on private roads in a fuel-efficient manner, adhering to relevant regulations and guidelines
- Drive a rigid vehicle safely and fuel-efficiently on private roads, demonstrating competence and awareness of surroundings
Drive the van on private roads in a safe and fuel efficient manner Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Drive the van on private roads in a fuel efficient manner
- Drive the van on private roads in a safe and fuel efficient manner
Ensure compliance with legal, regulatory, ethical and social requirements in logistics operations Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Ensure compliance with legal, regulatory, ethical and social requirements in logistics operations, including relevant legislation and industry standards
- Ensure compliance with legal, regulatory, ethical and social requirements in logistics operations through practical application of knowledge and skills
Ensure the articulated or draw bar vehicle is loaded correctly Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Load the articulated or draw bar vehicle correctly
- Ensure the articulated or draw bar vehicle is loaded correctly
Ensure the articulated or draw bar vehicle is unloaded correctly Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Ensure that the articulated or draw bar vehicle is unloaded correctly, following established procedures and safety protocols to prevent damage or injury.
- Ensure that the articulated or draw bar vehicle is unloaded correctly, verifying load stability and security throughout the process.
Ensure the rigid vehicle is loaded correctly Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Load the rigid vehicle correctly
- Ensure the rigid vehicle is loaded correctly
Ensure the rigid vehicle is unloaded correctly Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Ensure that the rigid vehicle is unloaded correctly
- Ensure that the rigid vehicle is unloaded correctly
Ensure the van is loaded correctly Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know the correct procedures for loading a van.
- Ensure that a van is loaded correctly, following health and safety guidelines.
Ensure the van is unloaded correctly Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Ensure that the van is unloaded correctly
- Ensure that the van is unloaded correctly
Help team members address problems affecting their performance in logistics operations Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to help team members address problems affecting their performance in logistics operations.
- Help team members address problems affecting their performance in logistics operations.
Improve performance in logistics operations Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to improve performance in logistics operations, identifying areas for improvement and implementing appropriate strategies
- Improve performance in logistics operations, monitoring key performance indicators and implementing corrective actions as necessary
Inducting new colleagues into a logistics operation Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Induct new colleagues into a logistics operation, including relevant policies and procedures
- Induct new colleagues into logistics operations, ensuring they understand their roles and responsibilities
Manage the traffic office Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to manage the traffic office effectively, including resource allocation and workflow management
- Manage the traffic office, ensuring efficient operations and adherence to organisational procedures
Manage your own professional development in logistics operations Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Manage own professional development in logistics operations.
- Manage own professional development in logistics operations.
Minimise the environmental impact of logistics operations Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Minimise the environmental impact of logistics operations, including relevant legislation and best practices
- Minimise the environmental impact of logistics operations through practical application of knowledge and skills
Monitor vehicle movements Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to monitor vehicle movements effectively
- Monitor vehicle movements in a logistics environment
Optimise the use of logistics resources Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to optimise the use of logistics resources
- Optimise the use of logistics resources in a practical context
Organise the preparation of documentation for the transportation of goods Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the required documentation for the transportation of goods, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and organisational policies
- Organise the preparation of documentation for the transportation of goods, ensuring accuracy and completeness
- Identify potential problems that can occur when organising the preparation of documentation for transporting goods
Prepare the articulated or draw bar vehicle for driving Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare the articulated or draw bar vehicle for driving
- Prepare the articulated or draw bar vehicle for driving
Prepare the rigid vehicle for driving Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare the rigid vehicle for driving, including pre-use checks and necessary adjustments.
- Prepare the rigid vehicle for driving, ensuring it is safe and roadworthy.
Prepare the van for driving Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare the van for driving
- Prepare the van for driving
Principles of food safety supervision in logistics Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how supervisors can ensure compliance with food safety legislation and regulations
- Understand how to apply procedures to maintain the safety of food throughout the logistics process
- Understand how to monitor procedures to maintain the safety of food, identifying and addressing potential hazards
- Understand the role of the supervisor in staff training related to food safety, ensuring competence and awareness
Protect the articulated or draw bar vehicle and the load Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Protect the articulated or draw bar vehicle and the load
- Protect the articulated or draw bar vehicle and the load
Protect the rigid vehicle and the load Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Protect the rigid vehicle and the load
- Protect the rigid vehicle and the load
Protect the van and the load Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Protect the van and the load
- Protect the van and the load
Provide leadership for your team in logistics operations Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Provide leadership for own team in logistics operations
- Provide leadership in own team in logistics operations
Recruit, select and keep colleagues in logistics operations Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to recruit, select, and retain colleagues in logistics operations
- Recruit, select, and retain colleagues effectively in logistics operations
Respond to problems in logistics operations Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Respond to problems in logistics operations
- Respond to problems in logistics operations
Routing and scheduling of loads Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Route and schedule loads effectively.
- Route and schedule loads in a practical context.
Schedule logistics operations to meet customers requirements Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to schedule logistics operations to meet customer requirements, considering factors such as delivery times and resource availability
- Schedule logistics operations to meet customer requirements, optimising efficiency and minimising disruptions
Supervise the receipt, storage or dispatch of goods Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Supervise the receipt, storage or dispatch of goods in logistics operations, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation and organisational procedures.
- Supervise the receipt, storage or dispatch of goods in logistics operations, monitoring staff performance and addressing any issues that arise.
Take responsibility for health, safety and security in your team Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand health safety and security requirements
- Work safely
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
- Standard
Check and load the tanker
- Standard
Confirm the goods vehicle is loaded correctly for multi-drop deliveries
- Standard
Confirm the goods vehicle is unloaded correctly for multi-drop deliveries
- Standard
Develop a compliance reference guide for your freight transport operation to support the requirements of the operator’s licence
- Standard
Devise and Implement Food Safety Management Procedures in a Logistics Environment
- Standard
Drive the tanker on public roads in a fuel efficient manner
- Standard
Implement schedules in road passenger transport operations
- Standard
LSfL10 Couple and uncouple the vehicle Legacy
- Standard
LSfL5 Drive the vehicle on public roads in a fuel efficient manner Legacy
- Standard
LSfL7 Ensure the vehicle is loaded correctly Legacy
- Standard
LSfL8 Ensure the vehicle is unloaded correctly Legacy
- Standard
Maintain Food Safety during Delivery
- Standard
Maintain Food Safety during Transport
- Standard
Manage a Goods Vehicle Fleet Legacy
- Standard
Manage the preparation of documentation for the transportation of goods
- Standard
Monitor Vehicle Movements Legacy
- Standard
Optimise the Use of Logistic Resources
- Standard
Organise and transport goods and other items
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The jobs these credits are mapped to
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Where this can lead
Transport Compliance Coordinator
This role can lead to work as a lead transport regulatory specialist, a transport regulatory affairs manager, or a director of transport compliance and safety.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Highfield Qualifications rather than by Zavmo. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Allocate and check work in your team in logistics operationsApply technology in logistics operationsArrange the transportation of goods using multiple transport modesBuild and manage teams in logistics operationsContribute to the provision of customer service in logistics operationsCouple and uncouple the articulated or draw bar vehicleDealing with payment transactions in logistics operationsDevelop productive working relationships with colleagues in logistics operations
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
- Draft the real one Create
You do “Organise the preparation of documentation for the transportation of goods” on a real document of your own. Zavmo works on the draft you have to send anyway, so the coursework and the job are the same piece of work.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Monitor vehicle movements” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
- Lead it Apply
“Allocate and check work in your team in logistics operations” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
- Check and load the tanker
- Confirm the goods vehicle is loaded correctly for multi-drop deliveries
- Confirm the goods vehicle is unloaded correctly for multi-drop deliveries
- Develop a compliance reference guide for your freight transport operation to support the requirements of the operator’s licence
- Devise and Implement Food Safety Management Procedures in a Logistics Environment
- Drive the tanker on public roads in a fuel efficient manner
- Implement schedules in road passenger transport operations
- LSfL10 Couple and uncouple the vehicle Legacy
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Allocate and check work in your team in logistics operations, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will develop skills to allocate and check work within a logistics team effectively. The unit covers factors influencing task allocation, quality checking methods, and the importance of clear instructions to ensure team productivity and work completion.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for Highfield Level 3 Diploma In Driving Goods Vehicles (RQF)
44 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Highfield Qualifications.
- Allocate and check work in your team in logistics operations
- Apply technology in logistics operations
- Arrange the transportation of goods using multiple transport modes
- Build and manage teams in logistics operations
- Contribute to the provision of customer service in logistics operations
- Couple and uncouple the articulated or draw bar vehicle
and 38 more in the full unit list below.
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