The clear and highly effective 6 module online course consists of 66 x 10-minute sessions which cover industry terminology, dimensions, weights and forces, heavy transport, heavy lifting, jacking, skidding and loadouts. When completed, the user will understand the practical, operational, and engineering aspects of heavy transport and lifting projects. For a full schedule of modules and sessions, please click here.

Due to the difficulties caused by the global pandemic and this being an ideal time for online training, we are offering a special price of £250 per user throughout 2023. See our online brochure and enrol here.

Besides the benefit of not having to travel to workshops and seminars, you can stop and start the training at your convenience with no deadlines. Upon completion, an e-Certificate is sent via email which can be downloaded, shared, and printed immediately so that you can verify your training to clients and officials quickly and easily.

Each user receives a personal log-in so they can train at their own pace and track their advancement through each module via a progress bar.

Freightbook Founder, Rachel Crawford says “Our training is not only affordable but also available to anyone who has access to the internet. This has resulted in our training being used by companies in over 50 countries from Denmark to Djibouti, Tunisia to Trinidad, Namibia to New Zealand, Slovenia to Sierra Leone, Ireland to Ivory Coast, Hungary to Honduras, China to Colombia."

The training is comprehensive and senior level professionals will benefit from the practical, scenario and video based course as it will encourage reflection on current practices. However, the training is also ideal for staff who are at the beginning of their career, offering employers a time saving and low cost alternative to workshops and seminars.

Kuehne+Nagel, Bertling Logistics, DB Schenker, DSV Panalpina and DHL have all recently signed up several of their staff and industry experts HLPFI say “The training platform is affordable and delivers information that is excellent value for money. The information is presented in a clear and concise manner.” Paul Lucas, HLPFI

The training is delivered by industry expert, Marco J. van Daal who has over 20 years’ experience and is author of the heavy transport textbook The Art of Heavy Transport in addition to being a contributing member of the European Association of Abnormal Road Transport and Mobile Crane.

Marco J. van Daal says “It gives me tremendous joy when experienced project and heavy lift forwarders approach me after training and say, “I have been doing this for 30 years and now I know why”.”

Freightbook was launched in July 2009 as an online business directory dedicated to the transportation industry. Since then 1600+ companies in 130+ countries have registered and are promoting their services on a global scale whilst at the same time driving traffic to their own websites. In 2016, Freightbook was re-launched with a fabulous new feature inspired by the fact that ratings are now an essential element to any online directory. View website.