The answer from Tachograph is very helpful to me too. I have had so much forked tongue advice about replacing my licence. I am post HGV for about 10 years and never did any classroom training. I gave up before the deadline, because of it. I was considering doing it, just to hold it and to try to renew my D4.
It is the order of which to do it in that has caused confusion. A trainer told me I need the Digital Card and D4 before I can do DCPC. Seems very strange.
At least the government advice to get an HGV licence seems well thought out.
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