UK Truck Drivers CPC Keep It or Bin It? Do Truckers Learn Anything! In this video, I give you my opinion about the Drivers CPC Periodic training, a controversial directive that continues to lose the trucking industry valuable drivers every year.

The Drivers CPC was a directive, introduced in Britain in 2003 which requires professional drivers who are driving vehicles over 3.5 tonnes to have a certificate of professional competence. The thought process behind the directive is it would improve the knowledge and skills of drivers throughout their working careers.

The problem with the CPC introduction was that many drivers saw the directive as yet another kick in the teeth incorporating more legislation that would impact truck drivers' time and in many cases hit them hard in their pockets too.

Drivers were forced to attend the CPC courses or they could no longer drive HGV vehicles, also included in the ruling are Coach drivers and minibus drivers who drive to make a living.

The CPC course consists of 35 hours of training in a classroom which must be completed every 5 years by every professional driver in the UK driving vehicles over 3.5 tons, the training is done in chunks of 7 hours at a time so this effectively takes 5 days to complete.

Drivers who have to pay for the courses themselves could be out of pocket by as much as £1000 after paying in the region of £300 for the course, losing 5 days work and traveling expenses to the venue.

Many drivers who had years of experience driving trucks did not want to sit in a classroom listening to a tutor talking for hours on end about things that they already know.

My experience of a CPC course was you would sit there all day watching the clock tick away praying for it to go faster. I even had one examiner spend most of the day talking about his family and the history of his life, nothing to do with trucking at all.

Basically, the whole CPC periodic training is seen as a complete waste of time by drivers all over the country with the majority dreading the thought of having to sit in a classroom all day and having to listen to dribble for 7 hours.

Recently mainly due to Covid, online CPC courses have sprung up which if I had to choose between the two, sounds a better option than a classroom, but overall the CPC has lost the trucking industry many highly experienced drivers since the directive was introduced in 2003.

My personal opinion is to scrap it! If there is any additional training that a driver requires the onus should be put on individual companies to provide additional training if necessary, otherwise there will be many more drivers leaving the haulage industry unnecessarily.

The hours spent in a classroom to maybe pick up the odd couple of things you perhaps didn’t know and in most cases, the answer probably wouldn’t even affect your day-to-day jobs are simply not worth it.

Any professional driver who finds he or she is struggling with something regarding their job will use their own resources to find the answers they require to any issues they have regarding their driving jobs, any changes to a specific job should be dealt with by haulage companies informing drivers of any new regulations.

Well, that is my opinion of the CPC Periodic training which I believe has lost the trucking industry many great drivers since its introduction and continues to cause drivers to leave the industry still.

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