… How is everyone getting on with the 35 hour periodic driver cpc so far?
Hours done?
Useful 0% - 100%?
Cost to self?
I ‘attended’ a 7 hour course on drivers hours and tachographs just to see what it was like
Did not learn anything new
Trainer (from LGV training school) was engaging and accurate with info (apart from the very old VOSA video on RT(WT)R which gave wrong break info which trainer had to correct)
Hours done = 0
Useful = 0
Cost = 0
Done it all ages ago.
ADR = 21hrs
Tacho and WTD = 7hrs
Load Security =7hrs
Waste of Money = YES
Got a full time job because of it = NO
Better Driver because of it = errrr what do you think.
Cost = Can’t remember but it wasn’t cheap. MY Credit Card paid, hehehehe
Hours done = 14
Useful % = 33% first 7 hours was a load of pish but the second session was quite informative very technical about engines and torque to power ratios, history of brakes and gear boxes. Stuff I’ll most likely never use but it was stuff i didn’t really know a lot about which was good.
Cost = the company’s driver trainers do it in-house
pete-b:
Hours done = 0
Useful = 0
Cost = 0
same
Hours done=7 (7 to do wednesday 
)
Useful=Not really
Cost=0 (but did get paid for it,so it aint all bad)
Hello Rog, good to see you back on TNUK and hope things are OK for you at the moment 
Anyway to answer your questions:-
Hours Done :- 14
Useful :- Nothing I didn’t already know or wasn’t aware of 
Cost to self :- Nothing 
Boss is paying for it 
I think I would have called it a day in 2014 if i would have had to pay for this myself But I’m now with a company that I hope will see me through to retirement and maybe beyond So the bosses’ investment now will be recouped in the long term
Regards
Dave Penn;
I done my first 7 hours today, I would say I’m up to scratch with the the rules and regs but I was surprised in some if the older drivers didnt know or forgot what we would call the basics of driver hours, WTD and rests. Money making scheme, I think so but from what I herd and saw today from some of our drivers it seems a good idea to be honest.
Also I had disagreement with the instructor (I don’t know why as he obviously knows more than me) but I just thought it was bollox.
He said if there is an accident on say the M25 and the police close it and your sitting there stationary for an hour and the digi display records “other work” you should make a manual recording of “driving” as your still in control of the vehicle on a public highway. If the police open it again and VOSA take your reg as your passing through and you continue your day in the manner that you spent that hour under “other work” instead of “driving time” then they turn up at your base they will do you for falsification.
I’ve done all of mine & got the card in the wallet. I did mine with QTT & I found them very good at the job, lots of the course was boring but I guess I did brush up on a few points which I’d long forgtten. It’s not a course I’d have chosen to take but as we have no option I’m pleased to have got it out of the way.
I don’t see how the modules can be left as they are at the moment, something will have to be changed to update the whole course if we’re going to see any positive opinions posted about the courses though.
BB
Only just re-applied for my class 1 after being off the road for 8 years and turning 45 
Didn’t realise it was going to cost me so much money just to try and get off the dole… £60 for medical, £38 for a digicard, and God knows how much for a CPC that is going to teach me what I already know! At this rate I’ll be working my first 3 months in a job to pay off my mortgage arrears, and the next 3 months to pay for the privilege of being ALLOWED to work! And the Govt wonder why there are so many on the dole…
Hours done? 21
Useful 0% - 50%
Cost to self?
£50 for the first one ( Digi Tacho & a little bit of hours stuff)
£85 for the 2nd two , Drivers Hours & Daily Checks (different provider than the first one )
First Aid
(less some funding from a defra scheme aimed at helping businesses on Exmoor which IIRC should be 70-75%)
got a telehandler course planned for sometime in the next month and than possibly Elf & Safety/Manual handling
The Drivers Hours & Daily Checks one was fun , it involved role play due to his interpretation of the Rules he took the part of Rog while I took the part of Coffeeholic , which went well even when he called in backup from a VOSA person who checks tacho’s on the road 
FarnboroughBoy11:
Also I had disagreement with the instructor (I don’t know why as he obviously knows more than me) but I just thought it was bollox.He said if there is an accident on say the M25 and the police close it and your sitting there stationary for an hour and the digi display records “other work” you should make a manual recording of “driving” as your still in control of the vehicle on a public highway. If the police open it again and VOSA take your reg as your passing through and you continue your day in the manner that you spent that hour under “other work” instead of “driving time” then they turn up at your base they will do you for falsification.
It was bollox - you were right
Was the dcpc trainer ever a driver in this industry or just an approved dcpc trainer from Fred Bloggs college?
Denis F:
The Drivers Hours & Daily Checks one was fun , it involved role play
Hours done = 7 so far, done last Monday. We’re playing catch up so apparently we’ll do at least 2 this year then one a year for as long as we’re with the company forever more.
Useful = Nah. Spent most of the 7 hours being “taught” why we’re doing the DCPC, and a small chunk at the end on hours, at the start of which he established that all those present already knew them. Oh, and he got stuff wrong.
Cost = Nothing to the driver. The company’s paying for it, and paying us to show up. We’re lucky for this area, apparently.
Hours done - 0
Bit worried cos 6 of the day drivers who only drive 7.5t half the time have been put through it, but I seem to have been overlooked and I drive class II 3 days a week and 7.5 two days a week.
They’re going to sack me aren’t they
7 ADR refresher would of needed it anyway
7 Tacho one utter rubbish didnt learn anything
Company pays
Did 7 hours on Tuesday, a MAN driving course, showed me how I could improve my fuel economy, yeah right,first I drive in the real world and second, my outfit will not give me even 1% of any amount saved on fuel.
im still trying to find someone i can pay a lump sum like £300 and get passed off with out attending anything. 
jessicas dad:
im still trying to find someone i can pay a lump sum like £300 and get passed off with out attending anything.
Well you would have paid £299.99 too much!
7 hours done,well,more like 6,fell asleep after dinner (wasn’t the only one!)total crock o [zb],lost a days work but scottish government paying for course,they could be spending the money on something useful