Jobs in training industry?

mucksavaga:

Chas:

Coffeeholic:
Plus it would involve far more face to face interaction with truck drivers than I would like or currently have. :wink:

22,184 posts on a ‘Truck Drivers’ forum :open_mouth: :open_mouth: :open_mouth:

Classic…
yep,just another wheel jockey wishing he wasn’t.

I am very happy being a wheel jockey thank you, easiest job ever, but I don’t want to spend time and interact with other drivers in the real world.

I am currently sharing a cab with another driver and since our shift started 4 hour 45 minutes ago I think our total conversation is less than 50 words. Three hours 10 minutes to go and about half a dozen words. :smiley:

mucksavaga:
Like most of us on here, myself included…
I have spent a small fortune renewing my cpcs tickets and i’m not paying 350+ on dcpc. I have a source who should be up and running at easter who will do it over two days afraid it will be 200 still. Thats the best yet. If your a grab. Hotbox and mobile crane driver your in the clear, no artics tho.

I don’t quite understand your post. What will your mate do over 2 days?

Are you saying someone has CPCS registered as DCPC? - which is something I have been thinking about looking at.

As far as i know CPCS is a voluntary scheme - it isn’t legislation just insisted on by companies and sites - or am I wrong? Whereas obviously, like it or not, DCPC is legislation and across all areas of the industry - not just construction.

I guess it would be handy if CPCS fulfilled the DCPC requirement?

Back to the OP.

As already quoted setup fees are £1500 centre approval which lasts for 5 years subject to passing audits and £250 per 7 hour course which lasts 12 months. You must have certain levles of insurance cover, a certain standard of facility and plenty of policies and paperwork in place ready for the auditor.

Trainers only have to prove experience in the subject and in delivering training. This can be as simple as a form signed by a company to say they have used your services and reckon you can do the job. So easily fiddled.

Each 7 hours that is uploaded to CSA after a course is £8.75. So run a course for 10 and it’ll cost £87.50 on your credit card.

I currently charge £40 for a 7 hour course (standing by to be slagged off). By the time I have paid the £8.75, deducted the VAT, paid for electric, other overheads for the facility (rent, insurances, printing handouts etc), tea & coffee etc it doesn’t leave a lot. I limit my session to 10 people (room will take take more) but i prefer the ‘interaction’ ratio with a smaller group. Do the maths - I aint gonna be rich. I’d rather be charging £100 a head but it just aint on is it? :wink:

Sometimes I have to bring in other trainers for subjects I don’t know. ADR for example - more cost.

I have been trading all of 2 months and have been visited by an auditor already. he had a few stories to tell about catching trainers who are selling the DCPC without delivering it. All approved centers are now being asked to pre advise JAUPT of scheduled courses 12 weeks in advance. if a course is completed and uploaded that wasn’t pre-advised - a disciplinary process is started. Might be mild to start with but they will be watching. These people selling but not training will get caught I am sure.

I will maintain that the DCPC has its place if done properly.(standing by to be slagged off). Unfortunately many haven’t done it properly - but some have. I’ve never been punched after a course (yet) but have had my hand shaken and been thanked (standing by to be slagged off).

There have been some good comments on this thread. it is hard work to stand there day after day and deliver what ultimately becomes the same thing. Each different group brings with it a different day - but there are only so many subjects. it was only last week I was informed by a “I’ve been driving for twenty years” driver that it’s OK to work a 16 hour day but only twice a week (fixed week that is). obviously i added that to my course hand outs - must be right his TM told him so. I learn something everyday :smiley:

I also provide non DCPC training such as FLT, manual handling, first aid, crane, hiab etc etc so some times its not quite so ‘same old’ each day.

(standing by to be slagged off). :smiley:

Why am I scared everytime I post on here? :laughing:

Pete

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