I was looking for the dcpc website to check on my completed training hours as 7 appear to have gone missing!!! and I came across the government e-petitions website which shows three current petitions and 1 closed petition for dcpc.
1 has 456 votes for a review of the dcpc
1 has 147 votes for an exemption for drivers served over 5 years
1 has 9 votes to get the DFT to produce advertising to show that the dcpc is not going away
There was also a closed one which had 82 votes for the scrapping of the dcpc which finished last August.
Now all of these current e-petitions are a mile away from the 100,000 needed to even consider being mentioned in the house of commons so is it likely that we the transport industry will suffer through dcpc, and does anybody know if the feelings about dcpc are common across the whole of Europe??
A recent post by a driver from spain said all the 35 hours he did was a waste and money
takemehome:
… and does anybody know if the feelings about dcpc are common across the whole of Europe??
The DCPC is different in Europe.
Many countries have had a system similar (but IMHO far better) to DCPC for quite a few years.
As with many other things, the UK is playing catch-up with DCPC because we’ve been forced to take it up in order to comply with a European Directive or face being fined by the EU. Due to this, we now have an ill conceived and hurriedly rolled out system that’s quite arguably not fit for purpose.
At least UK PLC (us taxpayers) didn’t get fined for failure to implement it. 
For an agency driver with a wife and two kids and a mortgage, the cost could be prohibitive. He may well think the DCPC is a wonderful thing but cant get the hundreds of £s to do it, its difficult even finding £50-80 for a days training. Quite a lot of agency drivers only get 2 or 3 days a week. I, thankfully, have a little sideline and I can afford to do it even on my 3 days a week, but therell be plenty out there who with the best will in the world just cannot afford it, and the rights and wrongs of it are irrelevent.
Each country has been given a mandate by the European Union, to implement a system to comply with the DCPC. How they do it, is down to the individual member state. Whether they ask the driver to recognise a number plate at 20 feet, or ask him to complete a complex manoeuvre, it doesn’t matter, they have complied with the regs. The driver then gets his completed DCPC. and we are all ■■■■■■, cause Bulgari and Romanis will steal our jobs anyway and the spineless ■■■■■■■■ in the British Government don’t give a ■■■■, they have had years to charge Boris and the Taliban for running on our roads, but have chosen not to do it, the driving game is well ■■■■■■ here and we have successive governments to thank. "Come to Britain, get everything for ■■■■ all, and we will bend over and take it up the ■■■, because we are too scared to do what the French do, and bring the country to it’s knees’
I thank you
Sapper