Surely your choices are pretty simple?
1 - do the CPC courses on your rest day, at the gaffers expense, and get paid for it too.
2 - do the CPC courses on your rest day/holiday day 
DO NOT get paid for your time, and stump up the bill yourself.
3 - get a non driving job come September because you haven’t got a DQC.
We all know they can’t make you do something on a rest day. But they aren’t going to magic an 8th day of the week for you to get your hours done.
I know what I would be doing. ■■■■ it up
I used a rest day last week and i had to pay for it myself. Alternatively i would need to take a work day off which would cost me around £200 in course fees plus lost revenue. Next month i use both rest days in one week. The alternative would cost me roughly £1000 if i used work days so take it on the chin since you are only using one day and since you are on work time, it guarantees you a full weekly rest the following week
merc0447:
'… you are getting free training …
One man’s ‘free-training’ is another man’s ‘compulsory EU indoctrination’.
Proper & structured training requires a check of understanding to be carried out, eg, a little requisite test, to achieve any accreditation worth its salt: The EU’s rotten DCPC doesn’t even require me to sit in a chair or even be awake
merc0447:
‘…How about being just a wee touch more flexible and a bit less militant then maybe some pole won’t nab your job a year down the line…’
Chamberlain was flexible and many Poles suffered, mate 
Happy Keith:
merc0447:
‘…How about being just a wee touch more flexible and a bit less militant then maybe some pole won’t nab your job a year down the line…’
Chamberlain was flexible and many Poles suffered, mate
Happy Keith, nothing if not a drama queen. 
switchlogic:
Happy Keith:
merc0447:
‘…How about being just a wee touch more flexible and a bit less militant then maybe some pole won’t nab your job a year down the line…’
Chamberlain was flexible and many Poles suffered, mate
Happy Keith, nothing if not a drama queen.
not so! 
why don’t companies do it mon to fri in THEIR TIME! 
Fatboy slimslow:
switchlogic:
Happy Keith:
merc0447:
‘…How about being just a wee touch more flexible and a bit less militant then maybe some pole won’t nab your job a year down the line…’
Chamberlain was flexible and many Poles suffered, mate
Happy Keith, nothing if not a drama queen.
not so! why don’t companies do it mon to fri in THEIR TIME!
I think you need to reread what I wrote in the context in which it was meant.
No DCPC = no useable LGV licence after Sept. 10th!!!
So just do it - especially if it’s being laid on & you’re getting paid.
Alternative = loadsa rest days cometh Sept.■■?
It’s called Hobsons choice!!!
There seems to be some unsaid opinion that if we withdraw from Europe then the DCPC will disappear. I don’t think so. The UK is one of the most health & safety conscious countries in Europe. There is a feeling that anyone can sue anyone for anything in this country which scares the hell out of most employers. I wouldn’t mind betting a fully independent UK would have even more control over forcing us to increase our competence.
I’m still for independence though 
But I mean independence from Westminster.
