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Originally Posted by Hugh

Seriously?

Most vans delivery delivers use can be driven with a standard drivers licence - HGVs, not so much; and a reasonable number of them just use cars for deliveries.

If you can’t tell that a parcel delivery driver isn’t the same as an HGV driver, then I don’t know what more to say - the difference in manoeuvring/reversing a 44 foot 44 ton articulated lorry and a sprinter van is considerable; that will be why it take 8-10 weeks to get an HGV licence, and the course can cost up to £5,000.

That's your credibility shot again. JR didn't say in Andrew's quote that the van drivers should become HGV drivers; he suggested that companies needing HGV drivers should learn how the van driver employers were successful.