Quote…During the next five years, every HGV licence holder will be required by law to undergo five days of training.
This is aimed at all ages but mostly at the older drivers on grandfather rights and near retirement.
Will you pay for it yourself?
Will your employer pay for it?
Will you just decide you’ve had enough and stop driving/change career?
JISL to ESL:
near retirement.
Those who already have grandfather rights and will retire at or before 09/09/2014 will not have to do any of it.
I just going to shop around for the cheapest - I’ve already got one course lined up with the agency that gets me my occasional driving work. It’s £60 all inclusive of upload fees and VAT, and is very local to me. Whilst I’m not sure about the trainer (he is new), at that price I can’t complain.
I have to pay for it myself - well through my own limited company, so its tax deductible. 
hopefully the next job I get will be with a firm that looks after its drivers and is prepared to put them through, however at the moment my priority is finding a job after the shock news earlier in the week.
Ultimatly I can see the jobcentre funding the training for some people.
In one of our bigger depots down south that have been accredited as a training centre.
I raised this with our firm a little while ago as it only affects me (both other drivers due to retire in 5 years)
We agreed that they’d do one ,module for me per year. That way if I leave they haven’t trained me for someone else and if they go bust in 4 1/2 years I’l not be completely screwed. Of course this arrangement may or may not actually happen…
we have our own trainer, but he won’t be training anyone, just signing the forms.
it’s just a money making scam.
so i won’t be doing any courses. it would be better if we all stuck together and said a very big NO to the cpc.
ive already done 14 hrs of training with a company in elgin although i have found oud that my employer is running dcpc courses [ i work for an agencie within a farmers machinery ring that has its own training division] whilst its slightly dearer [ £105 plus vat compared to £100 plus vat] they are running the courses much closer to me and at weekends so will be doing more days over the nxt year hopefully have it all in the bag this year altough the main priority is finally gettin me class 2 licence {cat C in new money}
I asked the boss about this last month and he told me that he is going to put me and the other 2 drivers through it on a weeks course later this year, as he is retiring and selling up in 3 years I thought this was a bloody good deal 
Just remember that once you complete 35hrs of training you start a new 5 yrs cycle.
Henrys cat:
Just remember that once you complete 35hrs of training you start a new 5 yrs cycle.
Not quite right. You have to start another 5 year cycle after the first 5 years has expired not just after you complete 35 hours.
Henrys cat:
Just remember that once you complete 35hrs of training you start a new 5 yrs cycle.
not exactly true. if i did mine now, (which i won’t), then it won’t end until 2019, not 2015.
Henrys cat:
Just remember that once you complete 35hrs of training you start a new 5 yrs cycle.
Not quite correct
THE PERIODIC (ongoing) DRIVER CPC
The DQC (Driver cpc card) will be expiry dated 09/09/2019 whether the 35 hours are completed now or at any time before 10 Sept 2014.
I stand corrected 
That must have changed from the original stuff I read about it then.
Henrys cat:
That must have changed from the original stuff I read about it then.
There was a lot of speculation and rumour as well as those that mis-interpretted the regs at the start.
That was the reason why, with the help of some other Tnet members 
, the link I posted was done to try and give drivers the basic info.
apparently our company arent going to pay for it, so it will come out of our own pockets.
one question for it ref the hours though, if we do it on our day off (we work roughly a rolling 5 on 2 off- 6 on 1 off) i take it that it doesnt count towards our working week if we are paying for it ourselves? does anyone know?
Lee G:
apparently our company arent going to pay for it, so it will come out of our own pockets.one question for it ref the hours though, if we do it on our day off (we work roughly a rolling 5 on 2 off- 6 on 1 off) i take it that it doesnt count towards our working week if we are paying for it ourselves? does anyone know?
it is work related, so it counts towards your working time, your travelling time will also count towards it. but no one will know. it’s not your concern anyway. the employee dosn’t get prosecuted under the working time rules, it’s the employer who carries the can.
ROG:
Henrys cat:
That must have changed from the original stuff I read about it then.There was a lot of speculation and rumour as well as those that mis-interpretted the regs at the start.
That was the reason why, with the help of some other Tnet members
Cheers Rog, with not driving a truck for over a year now I’m pretty much out of the loop (thus not posting much lately).
I am in 2 minds weather to do mine or not, they way things are looking I may only use my licence for less than a month a year if that. I’m no where near retiring (35) just found work away from the industry. I think I will see in a couple of years time.
Lee G:
apparently our company arent going to pay for it, so it will come out of our own pockets.one question for it ref the hours though, if we do it on our day off (we work roughly a rolling 5 on 2 off- 6 on 1 off) i take it that it doesnt count towards our working week if we are paying for it ourselves? does anyone know?
limeyphil:
it is work related, so it counts towards your working time, your travelling time will also count towards it. but no one will know. it’s not your concern anyway. the employee dosn’t get prosecuted under the working time rules, it’s the employer who carries the can.
Incorrect.
If you are not being paid to do it then it does NOT count as working or travelling time.
If it comes to me having to pay for it myself, I’ll be going for the absolute cheapest signature I can buy.