4WD Training
Key Information
Duration:2 Days
Maximum Attendees: 10
Training available at your own workplace
This course teaches 4WD operators the knowledge, skills, and attributes for all essential areas of the units of competency covered under the full “best practice” guidelines for 4WD operation in the workplace.
Overview
This course includes being able to drive a 4WD over varied terrain safely, effectively and responsibly to reduce driver risk. Driving techniques that minimise negative impact upon the environment are encouraged.
The course can be customised to incorporate company policies and procedures, (e.g. site entry). It can also be customised to suit the driving conditions, environment and skills required by the driver. These course options are shown in the unit standards below.
Please bring along your ID on training day - We need to verify the identity of students in attendance, please bring ID with you on the day of training.
Cost
This course is run at your worksite and is tailored to your organisational needs. Please contact us for pricing and booking enquiries.
Course Content
- Vehicle designs and operating systems
- Vehicle familiarisation
- Pre-drive preparation
- Hazard identification and safety margin assessment specific to terrain
- Terrain contour and composition recognition
- Hill ascents, descents, traverse driving, and associated problems
- Understand vehicle movement utilising traction, momentum, gravity and centrifugal force combinations
- Introduction to trailer towing (on and off road)
- Introduction to four-wheel drive recovery techniques and equipment
- Understand new technology
Additional content can be added to your training in order to customise the course to your workplace requirements.
Prerequisites:
- A current full class 1 licence.
Entry Criteria:
All students are required to have a level of written and oral English equivalent to NCEA level 1 (year 11) or IELTS 5.5 or higher, to be eligible to attend our courses. The person responsible for making bookings or authorising attendance on the course must agree to these Terms and Conditions prior to acceptance of their student(s) onto the course. Where a student does not meet our English language requirement a reader/writer must be supplied by the student or the person responsible for authorising the student’s attendance. The reader/writer cannot be another student attending the same course.
4WD Off-Road Training Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about 4WD Off-Road Training in New Zealand.
- Vehicle designs and operating systems
- Vehicle familiarisation
- Pre-drive preparation
- Hazard identification and safety margin assessment specific to terrain
- Terrain contour and composition recognition
- Hill ascents, descents and traverse driving
- Vehicle movement using traction, momentum, gravity and centrifugal force
- Introduction to trailer towing on and off road
- Introduction to four-wheel drive recovery techniques and equipment
- New vehicle technology
- Unit Standard 17976 – Demonstrate knowledge of operating a light 4WD vehicle in an offroad environment (Level 3, 4 Credits)
- Unit Standard 17978 – Operate a light 4WD vehicle in an off-road environment (Level 3, 4 Credits)
