I was wondering with this driver CPC Do you need a CPC card to drive a private HGV ?
No.
Only need it to drive commercially.
no you don’t, but judging by your user name, get an automatic. 
The phrasing is ‘hire or reward’, so if you drive it to a show, or use it as a wedding vehicle (for example) and get any sort of income from it then you do need a CPC, otherwise, no.
Tallyman.
The new buzz-word seems to be ‘Burden’. If you carry this stuff, you can’t class it as private HGV in the first place. Going to be some upset stock-car lads any day now…
Burden has nothing to do with it - a horse is a burden in a private LGV horsebox
A private LGV is generally (but not exclusively) one which is not being used commercially to make, or with the intent to make, profit
ROG:
Burden has nothing to do with it - a horse is a burden in a private LGV horseboxA private LGV is generally (but not exclusively) one which is not being used commercially to make, or with the intent to make, profit
MMMM that would mean about 70% of drivers would not need a dcpc since their trucks would struggle to make a profit, unless you count the mars bar as profit, lol.
You also don’t need DCPC if you use your truck to transport your materials to and from a job your working on. I imagine this to be quite a grey area to enforce.
transportsfriend.org/cpc/exemptions.html - that might help
Rog, the last 2 vehicles that I applied to have the taxation class altered to Private HGV, the main thing the DVLA kept asking me was ‘Does it carry Burden’. I had to take the camper to an local office (cant remember if it was Leics or Notts) and show them it had no area left for carriage and was all living accommodation. Only then would they change the taxation class to private HGV. How they do it with coaches carrying stock-cars I just don’t understand.
DoYouMeanMe?:
Rog, the last 2 vehicles that I applied to have the taxation class altered to Private HGV, the main thing the DVLA kept asking me was ‘Does it carry Burden’. I had to take the camper to an local office (cant remember if it was Leics or Notts) and show them it had no area left for carriage and was all living accommodation. Only then would they change the taxation class to private HGV. How they do it with coaches carrying stock-cars I just don’t understand.
DVLA are dumb - carrying burden is not a legal definition
Ask them what they would do if it was a commercial lorry and is now to be used as a private horsebox which carries burden/horse ?
Always Email DVLA and ask for a legal answer
DoYouMeanMe?:
Rog, the last 2 vehicles that I applied to have the taxation class altered to Private HGV, the main thing the DVLA kept asking me was ‘Does it carry Burden’. I had to take the camper to an local office (cant remember if it was Leics or Notts) and show them it had no area left for carriage and was all living accommodation. Only then would they change the taxation class to private HGV. How they do it with coaches carrying stock-cars I just don’t understand.
Hiya…local office you say!!! i was told yesterday(putting my reg on retention)that all the local offices are closing next
year. all the taxation (problems and all) will go through Swansea.That sounds like one big headache to me.
John