Road freight runs on people. We develop the people who run road freight.

Green Freight Academy is South Africa’s specialist capability platform for the road freight sector — providing professional training, certification, and continuous development built by transport experts who understand trucks, drivers, and trucking. We help road freight businesses reduce risk and improve profits through scalable people development.

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Our programmes

Training pathways across the business

Programmes covering driver capability and enterprise management, built for practical freight transformation.

Tier 1 — Workforce capability

The Professional Truck Driver Programme

R35 per driver per month

A comprehensive development programme that builds professional driving capability, safety discipline, and operational professionalism.

Drivers12-month programme with quarterly CPD
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Eco-Driver Training

R35 per driver per month

Practical eco-driving skills that reduce fuel consumption, lower emissions, and improve vehicle longevity.

Drivers12-month programme with quarterly CPD
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Tier 2 — Enterprise capability

Introduction to Green Freight

R1,000 per person

A foundational programme that builds shared understanding of green freight principles across the business.

All staffSelf-paced, approximately 4–6 hours
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Green Road Freight Management

R1,000 per person

Builds management capability for emissions reduction, profit improvement, and operational discipline in road freight.

ManagersStructured programme — duration confirmed on enrolment
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Driver risk management

Closing the Loop on Driver Risk

Most driver risk interventions stop at training. GFA closes the loop by connecting certification, ongoing CPD, and real-time driver bulletins into a single, trackable system.

When a risk event happens on your fleet, you can push an urgent bulletin directly to your drivers within hours — not weeks. Drivers acknowledge it, you see who has read it, and the incident is documented. That’s a closed loop.

Urgent driver bulletins
Push a risk alert to your entire fleet within hours. Drivers acknowledge on their phones.
Acknowledgement tracking
See exactly who has read and acknowledged each bulletin. Full audit trail for compliance.
Quarterly CPD integration
Field lessons and risk patterns feed into the quarterly CPD bulletin for all certified drivers.
Documented risk closure
Every bulletin creates a timestamped record of your risk response — valuable for audits and insurance.
Continuous professional development

Training starts with certification. Capability is sustained through CPD.

This turns training from a once-off event into a live learning and risk-reduction system.

Urgent intervention

Address a risk now

When a current operational risk, incident pattern, or critical theme needs to be addressed immediately — request a priority CPD intervention pushed to your drivers within the month. A small additional fee applies.

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CPD library contribution

Contribute to the knowledge base

Share field lessons, recurring risks, incident patterns, or mitigation themes with the wider CPD library. Contributions can be shared anonymously or kept confidential — both strengthen the relevance of quarterly CPD content for all participants.

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Get Started — Build capability across your freight business

Whether you are strengthening driver professionalism, improving management capability, or building greener freight understanding, GFA provides a practical platform for scalable progress.

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