Can anyone recomend a dcpc supplier in east Lancs.
I’ve put it into google search & I just got flooded with companies offering the course but no feedback from anyone!
I’ve been driving for years just need the 35 hrs over 2 years! 
Derek Kelly at Bellfield Services in Preston does DCPC on Saturday mornings.
I know Preston isn’t East Lancs but Derek is a nice fella with a long career in Road Transport not as a trainer but as a Senior Manager at Roadferry.
I did my own DCPC with him and found it vaguely imformative (I’ve got nearly twenty years in and a real Int & Nat CPC) he’s quick and efficient but most importantly, cheap.
Good Luck,
W
Do you have any particular goals you wish to achieve whilst gaining DCPC credit (ADR / Moffett / other forklifts / Hiab / upgrading your licence to Class 1), or are you just looking for the cheapest way to keep your rights to drive LGVs commercially after September 2014 whilst hoping the courses are vaguely interesting?
I guess these are the two principal schools of thought amongst drivers seeking their own DCPC training - those who feel if they’re paying for DCPC, they might as well gain something that could help them secure better paid / more / more secure work, and those who see periodic DCPC as something to get over and done with.
I suspect you’re after “cheap and hopefully vaguely interesting” by the way you framed the question, but it may help to focus your enquiry if you can confirm this.
If cheap is your goal, it may pay to get as much of the training as possible done sooner rather than later, as prices will probably rise nearer the September 2014 deadline. It makes no difference when you complete the 35 hours - your Driver Qualification Card will expires five years after your existing DCPC expires (i.e. September 2019 for LGV drivers with acquired rights until September 2014).
Judging by the number of arguments on TruckNet over drivers’ hours and the significant changes in EU drivers’ hours rules over the last ten years, a well-taught drivers’ hours module is worth considering just to make sure you are secure in your understanding. Sadly, there are also cases posted on TruckNet of poorly taught DCPC drivers’ hours modules where the tutor makes fundamental mistakes.
Pete Shepherd who posts on this forum as Shep532(may have got numbers wrong) runs courses at Haslingden including Saturday courses.
I can confirm and recommend DCPC courses by Pete at haslingden. I did my ADR packages there. Diesel Dave was the trainer.
Everything was good.
He is a member on this forum. shep532
cheers,
landylad
AlexWignall:
Derek Kelly at Bellfield Services in Preston does DCPC on Saturday mornings.
What just the morning? 
7 hours in a morning 
As said - I do DCPC from my place in Haslingden and thanks for the recommendations lads 
djw:
DCPC drivers’ hours modules where the tutor makes fundamental mistakes.
I delivered DCPC today and made a fundamental mistake … I forgot to put sugar in my coffe at break time. Oh how I laughed
Just finished a DCPC course for 8 lads and 2 lasses from the same company and what a crackin day. All well received and some great interaction.
Here’s the rules as relayed to me by one particular driver
- Cannot take a break sat at the wheel
- Must drive a minimum of 2 hours before you can take a break (and it mustn’t be at the wheel)
- After 6 hours work it is definitly 30 minutes break - my book must be wrong (even though it was the GV262 I gave him)
- I can exceed my daily driving limit or duty limit as long as I am within 1 hour of the yard but only if I want to - the boss can’t make me
- If I’m out of duty time I can be collected as long as it isn’t a company car (I was obviously more than an hour from the yard)
- Can’t record a break if the vehicle is being unloaded even if I’m in the canteen
- Nobody can drive my wagon whilst I’m on my rest or when I put my card in it will put all that driving on it
- Driving time is the time spent behind the wheel whether the vehicle moves or not
- I can work a 15 hour duty period AND take an 11 hour daily rest (if within 1 hour of the yard I can do 16 hours)
There were more golden nuggets of wisdom but I’m laughing to much to remember.
it has been an interesting day and it has clearly been proven that my knowledge of the rules is out of date. has anyone got the newest GV262 with the above rules in it?
shep532:
Here’s the rules as relayed to me by one particular driver
- Cannot take a break sat at the wheel
- Must drive a minimum of 2 hours before you can take a break (and it mustn’t be at the wheel)
- After 6 hours work it is definitly 30 minutes break - my book must be wrong (even though it was the GV262 I gave him)
- I can exceed my daily driving limit or duty limit as long as I am within 1 hour of the yard but only if I want to - the boss can’t make me
- If I’m out of duty time I can be collected as long as it isn’t a company car (I was obviously more than an hour from the yard)
- Can’t record a break if the vehicle is being unloaded even if I’m in the canteen
- Nobody can drive my wagon whilst I’m on my rest or when I put my card in it will put all that driving on it
- Driving time is the time spent behind the wheel whether the vehicle moves or not
- I can work a 15 hour duty period AND take an 11 hour daily rest (if within 1 hour of the yard I can do 16 hours)
There were more golden nuggets of wisdom but I’m laughing to much to remember.
it has been an interesting day and it has clearly been proven that my knowledge of the rules is out of date. has anyone got the newest GV262 with the above rules in it?
It sounds like that driver definitely needed your course, Pete - though I have my doubts he was receptive. It’s a shame you didn’t download his driver card for further giggles (assuming he drives only digital tacho vehicles).
Your setup looks brilliant - reasonably priced courses, combinations of 3.5 hour modules to suit all needs, and a chance to learn something that will be genuinely useful to drivers.
shep532:
AlexWignall:
Derek Kelly at Bellfield Services in Preston does DCPC on Saturday mornings.What just the morning?
As said - I do DCPC from my place in Haslingden and thanks for the recommendations lads
Absolutly, Kick off at 06h, tea and biccies all day but no lunch, finish at 13h. I said he was efficient and from our Industry (used to early starts).
Personally, I would of done my ADR as part of my DCPC but I had just done my refresher with a non JAUPUT firm the year before.
The most worthwhile module was the fuel consumption bit. I’m pleased to say I got something out of that. If I owned trucks I would happily pay my drivers to do that bit once a year.
W
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