Winseer:
Let’s try putting it another way here:
There are those aged 67 and above who say they are ‘not doing their DCPC’.
There are those UNDER age 67 like yourself, who also might say the same.
Come September, the person about to retire because they MUST will obviously stick to their guns, and not do it.
Those under 67? - You can carry on working. Suddenly, there’s the need to get the DCPC done in all urgency, regardless of what one thinks of it.
So… “Come September, the only ones who have not done it, will be those actually over 67” - because you, and everyone else under 67 talking of not doing it right now, will have knuckled under by then.
Perhaps you’re an optimist who thinks there will be a nice local convenient place to do their 35 hours credit all on the first week of September?
I suggest even if such a course IS available, it will cost an absolute bomb to anyone not in full time employment, who are therefore responsible for getting it done themselves.
The trainers will have wound down their little training sideline for another five years, whereas those doing it on a rolling basis, will have long since done it via their full time employers. Who’s going to do the training for those who’ve hung it out? Only the spivs who know they can charge the earth from those about to lose their licence to drive for a living effectively.
I didn’t like being forced to do it either, but it looks like you’ve already knuckled under if you’re booked in for July - right?
I don’t know what you’re reading into my posts but I haven’t " knuckled under" & I didn’t talk about not doing it, in fact I don’t have a problem doing it at all. The company have been putting everyone through it & it’s going to be my turn in July. If they had put me in earlier I would gave done it then.
Nope! am 55 and will not be doing these “courses”
Driver-Once-More:
Nope! am 55 and will not be doing these “courses”
I am 58 in a while and am not doing it - I am more than qualified to drive for a living without this, I like many many others have learned and earned my DCPC on the road and not stuck in some classroom with some geezer who wouldn’t know the real life of a trucker even if you hit him round the head with a chain stretcher … I think this was just one step too far for some of us.
So… “Come September, the only ones who have not done it, will be those actually over 67” - because you, and everyone else under 67 talking of not doing it right now, will have knuckled under by then.
Wrong, I won’t be doing it, I’m 64.
Tell you what does annoy me is I believe some European drivers don’t have to do theres till 2019 or something like that so all us brits will have it but them mupets who thought of it don’t even have to do it till then what a joke.
Did one last december. Trainer seems knowing whats he talking and even by ruff Questions answered Professionally. So did another 3 Day. May do one middn of May and a sixt in September or October on a Track
Mines been bought forward to July, I’m going for the whole 5 days in one hit. Looking forward to the whole 7 hour module on ‘vehicle checks’ already.
I don’t anticipate learing any more than I have on this forum in the last 6 months but may do a thread with a running diary of my experience for anybody interested in the online eqivalent of watching paint dry.
del949:
So… “Come September, the only ones who have not done it, will be those actually over 67” - because you, and everyone else under 67 talking of not doing it right now, will have knuckled under by then.
Wrong, I won’t be doing it, I’m 64.
So are you about to retire then?
…Or is there a job waiting for you at B&Q? 
I retired at 59 but kept the licence and medical on ‘just in case’.
Can’t see that ‘just in case’ justifies all the further rigmarole, so will leave it for those that do
I had the best time of the transport industry,early enough to be part of the ‘camaradie’ and the job was fun, and late enough to have decent trucks rather than just fast ones…
The truckers I see on the road today don’t seem to be as happy as I was.
I would be no good as a ‘greeter’ at B&Q 
Winseer:
hitch:
ask not what the Dcpc can do for you BUT what you can do for it.
The cpc isn’t about what you know but what you’ve forgotton
It shouldn’t be. Something useful would have been far better, like a defensive driving course, ADR, Operator’s Office Techniques, & even All about the transport industry as a whole.
You can do your ADR and get 21hrs for packages only or28hrs for tanks as well,renewed mine earlier this year so only had to sit 1 module and all done for 5yrs and company even paid me to attend courses!
I’m not doing it.
I’ve let my HGV licence lapse by not taking my last medical. My digicard was also due for renewal but I haven’t bothered.
I’m going to be 60 this year.
I drive a Fiat Scudo van now (complete with sign-written maple leaves as part of my business logo).
So much less hassle and the pay is great. Not for driving the van, for servicing the equipment at the premises I’ve driven the van to. 
2 of my sons drive class 1 trucks in Canada. The youngest of them drives B trains (Kenworth unit with 2 flat semitrailers) hauling crane weights and booms. The eldest drives Freightliner box trucks for FedEx. The middle son is a heavy duty crane mechanic repairing things like those huge Leibherr cranes with about 8 or 9 axles towing a 4 axle dolly to reduce the axle loading.
i wasn’t doing it, but only because i don’t drive trucks at the moment and haven’t for over 3 years, but we’re getting a truck at work in the not too distant. so they’ve bought me a new digi card and booked me onto a weeks dcpc in june, i’ve no idea what the topics are, or even if they’ll be different!
i’m not anti training, quite the opposite, just wish it was proper and tested
Silver_Surfer:
A whole week of sucking eggs Chavers, yous ll love that!
You could pay a double to sit it for you.
theres not 2 good lookin fellas like me in Middlesbrough 
theres 3 of my lot doing it together so we should be able to make our own entertainment 
on a more serious note, its not quite as expensive as i imagined it would be, £35 a day dont seem too harsh