After much soul searching i have decided not to do the DCPC 
22 years on the road it,s time to give up, but just one question if you don,t sit the DCPC before Sept 14, your licence is then revoked, but! do you then have to resit a full LGV Driving test if you need to get your licence back?
tarmactipper:
After much soul searching i have decided not to do the DCPC
Your licence is not revoked, its just that you will not be able to drive commercially I.E for a living if you what to drive later just do 35 hours DCPC and your ok to go.
As above but there will be some kind of time limit as to how long you can hold licence without doing C PC
I’m not being patronising Tarmac but why not just do it ? There’s not to worry about ,no pass or fail, just sit through a few hours of bull you already know.
I don’t agree with the law anymore than you but hey let’s get on with it.
Jim
Thats it just pay up matey for what you know allready…its the biggest con ever…i know a lot of people love there job as a truck driver but why be taxed to do it ■■?..im not paying up either on principal…bollox to it…nearly 30 yrs driving trucks and they try and f…k you over with some dreamt up crap… 
JFC999:
As above but there will be some kind of time limit as to how long you can hold licence without doing C PC
I’m not being patronising Tarmac but why not just do it ? There’s not to worry about ,no pass or fail, just sit through a few hours of bull you already know.
I don’t agree with the law anymore than you but hey let’s get on with it.
Jim
There’s no time limit. You can go as long as you like with no DCPC, just don’t get found driving commercially.
tarmactipper:
After much soul searching i have decided not to do the DCPC
I wholeheartedly applaud your stance Tarmactipper and wish I was in the fortunate position to do like wise. In fact I suspect a huge percentage of current drivers too wish they were in such a position.
Unfortunately I’m qualified for naff all else so I’ll just have to soak up this crap and any more stealth taxes they throw my way until I finally get my six numbers up or discover the secret of cold fusion (probably more chance of the DCPC being scrapped tbh).
Hey ho, I sincerely wish you all the best with whatever the future holds for you.
The LGV categories on the licence are governed by the medical to remain valid
The right to drive LGVs commercially (not privately such as own horsebox) is now governed by having a valid dcpc dqc card or a ghost one if under aquired/grandfather rights
No retests are required if either the medical or the dcpc are left to expire and there is no timeframe to get them back
I stand corrected as theman said inthe surgical shoes !
I naturally assumed there would be a cut off point
I’ll justget me coat …
Ime trying to avoid doing it because this industry is a government funding machine this is just another idea to take the pee out of us drivers who more than most other manual working envoirements have actualy got off our arses to actualy get qualified to do our job
I’m lucky that my work does the training and pays for it. Had my cpc card since april last year
Agreed that it’s a bit of a waste of money but no point giving it all up over this
JFC999:
As above but there will be some kind of time limit as to how long you can hold licence without doing C PCJim
No there won’t other than the limit placed on it by when you next need a medical.
A DCPC is for commercial drivers. If someone wants to drive a 17t horsebox they’ll need a HGV license but won’t need a DCPC.
A l c:
Ime trying to avoid doing it because this industry is a government funding machine this is just another idea to take the pee out of us drivers who more than most other manual working envoirements have actualy got off our arses to actualy get qualified to do our job
Perhaps if drivers knew things like basic drivers hours laws the DCPC wouldn’t.
There are plenty of examples on this very forum of why the DCPC is sorely needed. Want someone to complain to about it? Complain to the halfwit dumbasses who don’t even understand even the most basic of drivers hours regs such as how many 15s you can do in a week and the fact you have to have a full weekly rest every other week. Its people like them and the morons who dump their loads on the road because they don’t know what a ratchet strap is who are to blame for its introduction.
It is employers who refused to train drivers who are to blame so now they’re being forced to pay for it through the DCPC. Hell even shelf stackers at Tesco get more training than many haulage companies give drivers when they start with them.
JFC999:
As above but there will be some kind of time limit as to how long you can hold licence without doing C PC
I’m not being patronising Tarmac but why not just do it ? There’s not to worry about ,no pass or fail, just sit through a few hours of bull you already know.
I don’t agree with the law anymore than you but hey let’s get on with it.
No offence taken but like i say 22 years driving Why? I could drive a â– â– â– â– â– â– van 24Hrs straight and nowt would get said.
Sitting for 5 x 7 hours when you have no interest in doing so seems a waste of time especially if not being paid to do it or even worse, paying to do it
Being paid to do it = ok, boring but ok
The one thing that the dcpc could do but does not is to have the initial theory module 2 made into a test on drivers hours etc instead of the dumb senario test it currently is
So it takes 35 hours to teach me what I am doing wrong Conor I shouldn’t really be allowed out on my own it’s like giving a monkey a loaded machine gun and saying off you go ,like I say it is just another rip off for our industry if it wasn’t this they would think of something else
Conor:
Perhaps if drivers knew things like basic drivers hours laws the DCPC wouldn’t.
There are plenty of examples on this very forum of why the DCPC is sorely needed. Want someone to complain to about it? Complain to the halfwit dumbasses who don’t even understand even the most basic of drivers hours regs such as how many 15s you can do in a week and the fact you have to have a full weekly rest every other week. Its people like them and the morons who dump their loads on the road because they don’t know what a ratchet strap is who are to blame for its introduction.
It is employers who refused to train drivers who are to blame so now they’re being forced to pay for it through the DCPC. Hell even shelf stackers at Tesco get more training than many haulage companies give drivers when they start with them.
I agree with most of what you say Conor, and there are a lot of knobs who daily pass themselves off as drivers today. I have said before on here that over the years the calibre of a lot of drivers has been dumbed down, so surely the fault lies in initial driver training, you can’t teach idiots common sense so make the testing process a bit harder and sort out the drivers from the d.heads, teach them how to actually DRIVE a truck rather than how to memorise a test route, teach them you do not drive a truck as you do a car, then go through the dcpc process with them and test them on it. A cut off point of say one years experience should make you exempt from doing it, otherwise it just shows it up as what it is in reality… a stealth tax and revenue raiser under the guise of safety and professionalism.
Teaching test routes is not that common these days but showing the tricky bits on them is
LGV trainers need the trainees to be able to deal with virtually anything that occurs in normal driving conditions because anything could happen on test