Driver CPC, A way to raise standards or a blatant cash cow?

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hitch:
below is why we need it
3 drivers on a night part taking of a few
there all different ages
a newbie an experienced driver and an old boy

and as happens in these situations
eventually
the old boy says to the newbie
I was in Baghdad etc
and I’ve “forgotten” more than you have learned.

and thats the point to remind us what we have forgotten

Nobody is denying some people need to be refreshed - you only have to see some of the Q+A’s on here or listen to drivers in RDC’s to know that.

BUT, most drivers don’t need it. I know all the rules that affect my work and stay legal and infringement free (mostly).
I did the dCPC, and was given incorrect information which I challenged, there was also lots of other info which may have been correct or incorrect but didn’t matter, I don’t remember any of it as it was completely irrelevant to me.

If my circumstances changed, where I’d need to know these other rules, I’d learn them - I learnt to read at primary school.

What they should have done, if you have so many recorded infringements or get pulled doing something wrong and show a lack of knowledge, then you should have to sit a refresher course, but not this 1 size fits all sledge hammer to crack a nut method.

Also, I learnt nothing on my dCPC course, which was taken 13yrs after I learnt the basics, and 6yrs after I learnt the changes. So, even though the rules had changed between me 1st learning the rules and my sitting a dCPC course, I was upto date, what am I going to learn during the next 5yrs?? NOTHING is the answer. But I’ll still have to pay for the crap :imp:

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I have been speaking to some drivers who have completed the 35hr course and quite a few say that they did the same module more than once,twice or three times during the 35hrs. is this legal/possible?
I recently did my fourth module, it was taken by an ex fireman & at the end of the day it provided nothing towards my job, but I certainly know how to put a chip pan fire out.

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trashman2013:
I have been speaking to some drivers who have completed the 35hr course and quite a few say that they did the same module more than once,twice or three times during the 35hrs. is this legal/possible?
I recently did my fourth module, it was taken by an ex fireman & at the end of the day it provided nothing towards my job, but I certainly know how to put a chip pan fire out.

Yes,I believe you can take the same module 5 times over and gain the CPC.

Nothing but a blatant cash cow and we ( those like me who have to pay for it themselves ) get the pleasure of being shafted every 5 years with this nonsense.In the meantime,rest assured the great unelected biffs in Brussels will dream up more ways of getting us to part with our hard earned,in these pretty dire economic times. :imp:

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Nice one Ramon, given the fact that goods will always require delivering the unelected scroungers in Brussels and the clowns at Westminster seem hell bent on making it as difficult as possible constantly throwing obstacles in the way.