You’ve more or less answered your own question. No DCPC= No work. I can see the advantage of having it when some companies may be a little desperate. Then I think you would have a bargaining tool. We’ll see.
Take a look at other jobs and industries around the UK and I think you’ll find the answer. If there’s a void in the employment of drivers as people are predicting here then it would just be filled with foreigners quite happy to do the work for low wages.
I am on a “zero hours” contract with the agency. That is, I don’t guarantee to do definitely any hours. I tell them if and when I am available. I have told them that my rate will increase by one pound per hour in September (time and a half after eight), no more unpaid statutory breaks and a ceiling of twelve hours per shift. They didn’t argue.
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They didn’t argue.
They wont ,but I would still not believe what an agency CONsultant says
Sure we have all heard of this driver shortage for years and up until now its never really materilised.
However the dCPC is the biggest obsticle for some time to part time/ hobby /retiring drivers keeping their LGV entitlement.
Won’t really make any difference to full time drivers who will have the course paid for anyway.
It will affect seasonal demand notably this Christmas when the pool of agency drivers may reduce due to drivers in other professions who see Christmas time as a chance to earn a bit extra may not bother to take their CPC and leave a gap in the market.
Sure the influx of our EU cousins will take up some of the strain but with little to attract new drivers into the industry with low wages and the cost of obtaining a license in the first place I (perhaps over-optimisticaly) see the old supply vs demand mantra coming into play.
But due to the drop off in work January - March there will still be those who don’t have work.
Different areas will be affected in different ways with some seeing a massive drop in the pool of available drivers.
Also companies will have to plan farther ahead when drivers are retiring and may even (dare I say it) offer more beneficial financial incentives to not only hire drivers but also keep them.
Don’t devalue yourselves guys and girls I belive a LGV driver fluent in the local lingo will become a very valuable commodity.
Made a big decision yesterday to book my CPC and it wasn’t easy, found one local company with one place left on a weeks course in August (£290.00) my own fault for leaving it a bitto late.
I don’t think there will be much difference in wages, although I may get the opportunity to get more higher paid/easier work as i know quite a few drivers in these jobs not doing the dcpc or retiring.
As for foreigners taking the work i know a few companies that won’t employ them whether that will change come september i don’t know but i can see being able to speak english fluently will be an advantage.
jobseeker:
I don’t think there will be much difference in wages, although I may get the opportunity to get more higher paid/easier work as i know quite a few drivers in these jobs not doing the dcpc or retiring.
As for foreigners taking the work i know a few companies that won’t employ them whether that will change come september i don’t know but i can see being able to speak english fluently will be an advantage.
…yeh. The people you’ll be dealing with to get the work may well not speak it fluently to you! 