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RED-DOT

Member Since: 29 Jun 2009
Location: stirling
Posts: 2363

Driver CPC what was that all about?

As did most i done my time on this cash cow and never been asked for it or heard of anyone else being asked for or convicted for non compliance. All other EEC countries have droppoed it so should the UK too? Our lecturer fell asleep during the modules and put a DVD on showing truck crashes and went for a coffee/smoke break. Aimed at new drivers i learnt nothing. 2008 RS4 gone, 123d M Sport, and a Puma 90 XS..

21st Mar 2016 10:22pm

spudfan

Member Since: 10 Sep 2007
Location: Co Donegal
Posts: 4695

Still mandatory over here. 1982 88" 2.25 diesel
1992 110 200tdi csw -Zikali
2008 110 2.4 tdci csw-Zulu
2011 110 2.4 tdci csw-Masai

21st Mar 2016 10:27pm

jimbob7

Member Since: 06 Jul 2013
Location: uk
Posts: 2055

Not aware other countries abandoning it,but nearly all other countries were exempt for a good few years after the uk imposed it.
FWIW,it's an "attendance only" course,so you only have to attend,not answer any questions to pass,Which kinda makes a mockery of it all.TBH,I enjoy it,coz the company pay and i get to do nowt for a week (spread over 5 years)

.Shud also add,in the uk not carrying your cpc card is an offence,these days all offences are arrestable offences. Pov.spec,ftw. 2006, 110,TD5.

24th Mar 2016 11:57am

Cupboard

Member Since: 21 Mar 2014
Location: Suffolk
Posts: 2971

2011 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 HT Corris Grey

We tie it in with stuff that's useful for our driver to have, so first aid, forklift, telehandler...

24th Mar 2016 1:32pm

Fatboy Slim

Member Since: 04 Feb 2008
Location: Bridgend
Posts: 1006

35 unproductive hours of my life that I will never get back.

24th Mar 2016 10:12pm

dlks151

Member Since: 30 Jun 2014
Location: Auchinloch
Posts: 67

We were just discussing this today, and, after the initial CPC, the continuing need for our drivers to have the additional modules in place before 2019.

So is there a possibility of this being withdrawn then?

24th Mar 2016 10:22pm

Swac3

Member Since: 21 Feb 2015
Location: Aberdeen
Posts: 363

Like most of these things, My Crane op cert just ran out so god forbid I use one now at work, Good thing too as I instantly forgot the last 5 years experience the day after it expired.

On the upside some training center will get to make some cash 'Qualifying me' for another 5 years. 3 Landrovers

24th Mar 2016 10:26pm

spudfan

Member Since: 10 Sep 2007
Location: Co Donegal
Posts: 4695

dlks151 wrote:
We were just discussing this today, and, after the initial CPC, the continuing need for our drivers to have the additional modules in place before 2019.

So is there a possibility of this being withdrawn then?

It will probably be replaced by a newer more complicated version....just in time to coincide with the newer more complicated Defender. Nothing in this life seems to get simpler.

1982 88" 2.25 diesel
1992 110 200tdi csw -Zikali
2008 110 2.4 tdci csw-Zulu
2011 110 2.4 tdci csw-Masai

24th Mar 2016 10:33pm

22900013A

Member Since: 23 Dec 2010
Location: Oxfordshire
Posts: 3150

2011 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 USW Keswick Green

My company put me through the CPC as I occasionally drive the HIAB trucks for them, however we are technically exempt from the CPC anyway. I actually found it useful as I didn't go in with the attitude that I already knew everything so I actually learned some things. I have done them in the past with blokes who will not pay attention because they think they know it, they came down to earth with a bump once they realised just how out of touch they were, some didn't even know current drivers hours regs for example, which do seem to change every ten minutes...the courses are intended to keep drivers up to date on new laws and rules, most of which if you break them will see you arrested and fined or worse. For example, they are now fining drivers for having their ratchet straps loose and flapping in the wind, £100 per foot of loose strap apparently...! 2011 110 USW
1973 Series III 1-Ton
1972 Series III 1-Ton Cherrypicker
1969 IIA 1-Ton
1966 IIA 88"

25th Mar 2016 9:25am

spudfan

Member Since: 10 Sep 2007
Location: Co Donegal
Posts: 4695

I was talking to one truck driver who had attended one of these courses. He said that during the teabreak they got into conversation with the "young" man who was presenting the course. During the conversation it came out the the person who was giving the lecture to the room full of truck drivers had NEVER driven a lorry. This to my mind is wrong. 1982 88" 2.25 diesel
1992 110 200tdi csw -Zikali
2008 110 2.4 tdci csw-Zulu
2011 110 2.4 tdci csw-Masai

25th Mar 2016 11:04am

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