I heard some of Europe never bothered with it but I don’t know if it’s true. I wouldn’t get your hopes up about us leaving the EU cos there’s too much money being made out of it. The money we pay for doing it,the fine for not doing it,the fine for leaving your card at home etc etc
There was me thinking any modules done today are valid for no more than 5 years ahead as of whenever “today” happens to fall.
January 2022 would be the next 35 hour one due to someone who had completed the entire 35 hours last week then - the way I understand it.
If you did 35 hours last week (for example), you could have a single 7 hour one roll off, and then be up to do “another 7 hours only” a year from today…
Wot’s all this 2023 stuff about then?
We’ll be having MOT certificates issued this week dated 2019 expiry next! 
Nobby_Clarke:
I heard some of Europe never bothered with it but I don’t know if it’s true. I wouldn’t get your hopes up about us leaving the EU cos there’s too much money being made out of it. The money we pay for doing it,the fine for not doing it,the fine for leaving your card at home etc etc
Plus, when (on larger companies at least) youre on a course, another driver is employed to do your job. About 300,000 LGV drivers in employment in UK. [gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... s-2014.pdf](https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/480115/domestic-road-freight-statistics-2014.pdf)) So, each has to do one day per year, (thats 5 7hr sessions over 5 years). So we need to replace them with 300,000 worker-days. Assuming a 5 day week thats 60,000 weeks. with 4 weeks hols we get 60,000/48 = 1,250. Thats one thousand two hundred and fifty jobs created for drivers.
OK. The arithmetic may work, and we know some of us do courses at weekends, slack post Xmas mondays etc etc, these figures are not totally “real”, but there is a real cost here apart from the fees we drivers/employers pay out.
Muckway is right, there is always a know it l driver on every course, who.interupts every five minutes, with his take on how it should be done .
Constantly questioning the instructor and argue with drivers , if you dare to challenge the got the tee shirt driver who has done it all.
On the dcpc and adr courses, there is the same video that is from the 1970,s with a multiple pile up carnage shocker with Scammel, Erf,Ford Transcontinental ,Iveco Turbostar and a Pegaso Troner trucks in the doom disaster movie.
This is what happens if you forget to apply the handbrake or the motorway pile up .
It sounds like I was lucky. Most of my class didn’t speak English. That’s the real joke of the dcpc
Ongoing and paid for by the company, I’m told we are the best trained drivers in Europe.
Come to work the following day after DCPC, get a run and a 66 plate unit (on the road in December 2016)
Above unit has a broken nearside step (4 mirrors a camera and a proximity sensor) to help the driver, the curtains have been torn down and the dash is covered in spilt coffee.
Say what you like you will never beat stupid.
Done until 2025.
red7jase:
Les Shoes:
red7jase:
14 in. 7 of which was about how to ride a push bike.Around London by any chance?
Rocester but yes based on London. Safe urban driving. Course by TFL.
Teaching hgv drivers how a bike should be correctly rode. All it does is clarify what we already thought about the [zb] cycle riders we contend with on the road.
Done this today and what a complete load of ■■■■■■■■. All I took from it was cyclists now have there own traffic lights in London. Joke
I’m not doing any more.
I’ve only got 10 days left to work before my early retirement! 
westermant:
I have 7 hours towards my next one.
Ditto. Did my first block of 7 towards 2019 in January.
Cost me a saturday, but I’m supposed to be getting a day off in lieu. I’d rather have the overtime, but that is a cultural luxury I left behind at RM alas. 
Completed mine in may 2015 , done, dusted ,
& in the bay till 2024 happy days 
I won’t be doing any more, found myself another (self employed) trade that just about keeps me afloat and allows a bit extra for hols etc.
Not driven a truck for a while now, I miss the good bits but not the bad. Plus fed up with reading about the pay getting down to near minimum wage levels it seems as though the job has had it’s day, shame really.
Not doing it either, my DCPC runs out in 2019, the same time as I retire.
Although i have loved this job, and have been constantly employed as a driver since 1975, I have had enough!
Evening
None, nil, zero, f-all hours to my CPC…
cheers
Paul
Can’t believe anyone spends money on it this far ahead. If the whole thing gets scrapped you’ll not see that time or money again. DVSA have been saying it’s not being scrapped but then they said fitters need it to go to test then changed their mind and no fitters who’d forked out for it saw their hard earned back again.
The irony is it’s not like haulage is a fast changing industry if you’ve been on supermarket work neither the fundamental design of the truck or the job has changed in half a century.
Done another 7 hrs today.
Who was it on here that put the video up a while back of him having a tiff with a Lycra Clad Loon? Your video featured in our course today about road rage incidents. [emoji23]
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damoq:
Done another 7 hrs today.
Who was it on here that put the video up a while back of him having a tiff with a Lycra Clad Loon? Your video featured in our course today about road rage incidents. [emoji23]Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
If you’re referring the cyclist trying to hit the trucker, that’s Honked,
Thats the one. Cheers evil.[emoji106]
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Really? Care to spill the beans on who run the course?
Honked:
damoq:
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Really? Care to spill the beans on who run the course?
The company I work for. Why? You looking for royalties from it? [emoji23]
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