Driver Training · Dublin
Forklift training in Dublin — on your site, on your trucks
Accredited counterbalance, reach truck, pallet truck and refresher courses across Dublin and Leinster, delivered from our Rathcoole base. Certificates issued on the day.
Forklift courses in Dublin
A Dublin supplier that trains, supplies and services the same trucks
Most forklift training in Dublin is sold by training companies who never see the truck again. AWE is a materials handling supplier first: we have been selling, hiring and servicing forklifts from our own premises at Greenogue Business Park in Rathcoole for over 40 years, and our instructors train operators on the same machines our engineers maintain. That matters when a course has to cover pre-use checks, defect reporting and the specific quirks of the truck in your aisle.
Courses run at novice, conversion and refresher level across every truck category. Certification is category-specific under Irish workplace legislation, so a counterbalance ticket does not cover a reach truck — tell us the trucks your team actually drives and we will scope the course to match.
Why AWE
What you get from a Dublin-based trainer
Dublin-based, not visiting
Our premises, workshop and engineers are in Rathcoole, Dublin 24 — this is our home territory, not a region we travel to.
Trained on your own trucks
Operators certify on the machines they will actually drive, in the aisles they will actually work in.
Certificate on the day
Successful candidates leave with paperwork in hand — no waiting on posted certificates.
Renewals handled
We hold digital records and remind you before the three-year expiry, so no operator runs an expired ticket.
Where we train around Dublin
- Dublin Port and the docklands 3PLs
- Dublin Airport logistics and freight handlers
- M50 industrial estates and distribution parks
- Rathcoole, Citywest, Baldonnell and the N7 corridor
- Ballycoolin, Damastown and Blanchardstown
- Pharma, medtech and data centre campuses across Dublin
Courses available
How it works
From enquiry to certificate
Tell us the group
Operators, experience level, truck categories and where in Dublin the site is.
Dates and written price
Per-group and per-head price with available dates, normally back to you within one working day.
Course on your site
Instructor travels to you with syllabus, materials and testing kit, scheduled around your shift pattern.
Certified and recorded
Certificates on the day, digital records held, reminder before the three-year expiry.
FAQ
Forklift training Dublin — common questions
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Read before you decide
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6 min readNeed Dublin operators certified this month?
Courses at your premises or ours. Call (01) 401 9919 and we'll confirm the next available dates.