Ricekrispies:
I should have one more done by now but the problem I have is conjuring up the will to go and sit in that room for another 7 hours on my day off and have to pay for the joy of it too. I wouldn’t mind if it was something different but it’s just the exact same thing all over again. And to be honest I’m not really bothered if I lose my job over it.
Ha ha ha ha. I did all 5 of mine on days off. 4 were boring. 1 was a first aid course which was informative.
Oh yes I nearly forgot, paid Saturday rates for 10 hours each day and coffee and lunch or breakfast included. Oh and no administration costs either.
So while you sit greeting about the hardship I’ve been paid a weeks wages over last couple of years for sitting in a corner dribbling.
Now the tutor on my last day of my course which I did back in February told us that once your card has been issued and you don’t have it on you then your licence will in effect be invalid and those that didn’t do the course will also have an invalid licence. now he might of been talking out his arse but who knows. me for 1 has a card and it’s with me licence at all times as I like my money in me wallet and not someone else’s.
lizard:
Now the tutor on my last day of my course which I did back in February told us that once your card has been issued and you don’t have it on you then your licence will in effect be invalid and those that didn’t do the course will also have an invalid licence. now he might of been talking out his arse but who knows. me for 1 has a card and it’s with me licence at all times as I like my money in me wallet and not someone else’s.
He was talking nonsense, if your licence was invalided by not having a DQC there would be no point in having DCPC exemptions.
lizard:
Now the tutor on my last day of my course which I did back in February told us that once your card has been issued and you don’t have it on you then your licence will in effect be invalid and those that didn’t do the course will also have an invalid licence. now he might of been talking out his arse but who knows. me for 1 has a card and it’s with me licence at all times as I like my money in me wallet and not someone else’s.
Your tutor was talking out his arse.
If you are driving a HGV for your own purpose then you don’t need the dcpc, for an example, if you hired a 18T truck to move house, as it is not for hire or reward and for your own use you don’t need to have it.
Thats what I was told by my tutor and by reading the exceptions.
This is taken from the gov.uk website
Vehicle uses where you don’t need Driver CPC
You don’t need Driver CPC if the vehicle you drive is:
used for non-commercial carriage of passengers or goods for personal use
used to carry material or equipment you use for your job - but driving the vehicle can’t be the main part of your job
used for driving lessons for anyone who wants to get a driving licence or a Driver CPC
used by, or is under the control of, the armed forces, civil defence, the fire service and forces responsible for maintaining public order
used in states of emergency or for rescue missions
driven to or from pre-booked appointments at official testing centres
driven within 50 km of your base, is not carrying passengers or goods, and driving a lorry, bus or coach is not your main job
lizard:
Now the tutor on my last day of my course which I did back in February told us that once your card has been issued and you don’t have it on you then your licence will in effect be invalid and those that didn’t do the course will also have an invalid licence. now he might of been talking out his arse but who knows. me for 1 has a card and it’s with me licence at all times as I like my money in me wallet and not someone else’s.
I don’t have a DQC having not completed all the required 35 hours but my C+E is still valid until 27/05/2019 and will remain so. It could even be valid for longer if I choose to take a medical in 2019. The DQC/DCPC does not affect the validity of the licence only how you can use it.
I did the dcpc in June, week long course, £300 of my own money and if I’m brutally honest I have forgotten most of it. When I read the list of all the things VOSA can bust you for, as well as all the crud of vehicle tracking, driver monitoring and other ‘why would anyone in their right mind endure this’ I kinda went off the idea of returning to driving.
I view the dcpc as akin to being on a foreign holiday, trekking two hours to see some ruins, just so you can return and say you did it.
desypete:
so good to see so many drivers who have now paid out and attented these courses can now all agree on drivers hours and the like ?
i think it speaks for itself that its just the same as its always been even after training drivers still have different ideas and opinions on how it all works lol
I think there should be a DCPC module on how to operate the truck’s OBC. I think it would be quite popular with the “I’ve been driving 40 [zb] years, there’s nothing you can tell me about this job!” brigade.
maybe to help you guys out there should be modules on changing fuses when you blow the lights out coupling up ? or do the automatic drivers ring for help ? lol, how about a changing a wheel module ? that should be popular. more so if its ■■■■■■■ down : )
so am I still the only one on here still driving with no dcpc then? there have to be some other cowboys in here somewhere,.or is it still only me again??
happysack:
So while you sit greeting about the hardship I’ve been paid a weeks wages over last couple of years for sitting in a corner dribbling.
That sort of behaviour sounds like you ain’t that far of being sectioned
Standard Stobart driver behaviour.
With hi viz on
You laugh…
I delivered into Stobart/Tesco widnes the other month, a poster on the wall said “You need to turn up with FULL uniform, Driving Licence, Digi Card” and zb knows what else for the CPC or you can’t take it
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