Hi! Finally I have passed my CE!!! I have a titre pro diploma (french) this apparently it gives me 2 years worth of experience !!! 
lol i still can’t reverse!!!
so it has not been easy and has taken a long time to achieve. i started the first course beginning of February and finished the last course end of July. I have redone my class C done the FIMO ( French CPC-a lot easier than i thought!) got my ADR base and now my CE!!
So just a quick recap of my experience and thoughts on doing it in france…I wish i hadn’t!!! Its been full of drama! the courses did not go how they should have 
in their defence it was the first time they had done it from where we did it ( more countryside than a big town) and I think their last!! it started going bad at the end of the first course. We where just waiting for our diplomas to come through, I knew id passed the drive and the fimo I was pretty sure went well, you were given a case study and it was all about the drivers hours and routes and lettre de voiture etc, had to dock and take pallets off etc…it really wasnt very difficult, and then we were told, well 2 of us, the 2 of us that had already got our C licence that we had to do everything again!!! it wasn’t that we hadn’t passed , it was that we had not done it in the correct order■■? I didn’t understand!!! I was fuming!! given less than 12 hours notice to do the tests again 
I did with much annoyance.
So the second course (CE and ADR)…what didn’t go wrong!!! in short we had 10 different instructors, 7 different trucks, first 5 weeks was in a road train and we didn’t start the reverse until the last 2 weeks and then when we did it was very badly organised!! the day of the test was the first time I had put the truck together and apart again, still not sure what this is called in english?! attelage and detelage. So the reverse…what a nightmare!!! I had 4 different instructors, only 1 of them was decent…and i only had him for 2 days, the last one I had, I had a huge fight with as he was not good atall, just shouted all the time or ignored you totally…So…I need more practise!!! hopefully i will do ok, that it is the lack of training not my ability, but im not sure, not confident at all!!! I will find out soon… I am signing a contact on friday and start work on monday morning early got a 2 month trial, fingers crossed it goes ok, if not, can anyone recommend jobs that don’t involve much reversing??
Congratulations! Sounds like an ordeal, but good to hear you’re straight into work. The reversing will come with practice (At least that’s what I’m hoping [emoji1787])
Littlejo:
?! attelage and detelage.
Coupling and decoupling.
stu675:
Congratulations! Sounds like an ordeal, but good to hear you’re straight into work. The reversing will come with practice (At least that’s what I’m hoping [emoji1787])
I’m hoping the reversing will come with practice too. Although at this point it won’t matter too much, I retire in 18 months 
Well done on getting through and finding a job too.
Well done Jo, you did great. You drive a car with the skill, confidence and control of a rally car driver so I’m sure you’ll conquer trucks in no time!
Littlejo:
Finally I have passed my CE!!!
A belated ‘bravo’ for passing your test over here, not an easy task in a foreign country.
How’s it going with the new job, and who are you working for?
~ Craig
Apart from FIMO does France still do FCOS, I had both before I retired when I worked for Norbert.
kerbut:
Apart from FIMO does France still do FCOS, I had both before I retired when I worked for Norbert.
Yes FIMO is the initiale and FCOS is the continuale (I think) every 5 years same as here (UK).