Novadata’s CPC National Freight & Passenger can now count as a full 35 hours* of Driver CPC!
We have now gained JAUPT approval for our Certificate of Professional Competence National Freight & Passenger course to count as the full 35 hours of Driver CPC periodic training. This complies with the legal requirement for drivers to receive their Driver Qualification Card (DQC) by completing their 35 hours of periodic training before September 9th 2013 for passenger and September 9th 2014 for freight.
National and International
The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act 1995 was designed to implement EC Directives 96/26EC and subordinate legislation with regard to the occupation of road haulage operations.
Please Note:
In future, from a specified date, all new candidates taking the Transport Manager CPC exams will be required to also pass the international element. However, those who held a National CPC on the date specified will continue to be authorised to manage domestic operations and will be permitted to sit the international element to ‘upgrade’ to the full CPC qualification if they wish to be named on an international operator licence.
The regulations state that an operator who seeks a standard National or International Licence MUST satisfy the Licensing Authority that he/she is either professionally competent or employs someone as a transport manager who is professionally competent and is of good repute.
In this context, only an INDIVIDUAL PERSON can be professionally competent and to become this, the person must pass the CPC examinations set by the Oxford, Cambridge and Royal Society of Arts, Examinations Board (OCR). The examination for a National CPC consists of three modules (with a further module to cover International Operations). All three (or four if also taking the International exam) are set on the same day.
To attain a CPC, ALL candidates must pass or have passed the core module 1. Freight National is achieved after additionally passing modules 2 and 4, or passing modules 1, 2 and 4 together. Freight International is achieved by holding passes in modules 1, 2 and 4 and additionally passing module 6; or, passing modules 1, 2, 4 and 6 together. Passenger National is achieved by holding module 1 and passing modules 3 and 5; or, passing modules 1, 3 and 5 together. Passenger International is achieved by holding modules 1, 3 and 5 and passing module 7; or, passing modules 1, 3, 5 and 7 together.
The examinations take place four times a year in March, June, September and December. (Twice a year for International Passenger)
A separate examination is required in order to obtain a passenger (bus and coach) operators licence. Courses for these are arranged according to demand.
Updating from pre-October 1999 National to International certificates
Candidates who achieved their National Certificate prior to October 1999 can no longer upgrade to an International Certificate by simply sitting Module 6 or 7 alone. This means that candidates who wish to obtain the International CPC from September 2004 must take the full international examinations.
This decision was made a number of years ago, when the format of the qualification significantly changed to include case study papers. The decision to make this change was taken by the Transport Qualification Committee, made up, in part by representatives from industry and professional bodies including the Road Haulage Association and the Department of Transport.
