trubster:
The fact that people still don’t understand daily and weekly rest periods shows that the CPC is clearly not working…
Not a dig at the OP… Just a general opinion
To some degree I agree. Some DCPC is lacking but I believe these below average places are slowly going out of business. But I also believe there is an element of drivers that are the problem. Just as every school has pupils with special needs that need to be educated in different ways we have the same in DCPC but the system fails to acknowledge this.
The current system does not allow a trainer to deviate from the approved course timetable. If I have someone in the class that simply cannot ‘get it’ I am limited in what I can do. If I concentrate on him - the rest are ignored. The system does not cater for different levels of ability. If I ‘design’ the course content for the special needs kind of pupil I bore other drivers to death. I suppose I could advertise different courses - one for normal people and one for retards 
I delivered a course yesterday with just 3 drivers specially arranged by their employer. It wasn’t DCPC - it was a remedial Training session for reasons I’ll cover later. We spent over 2 hours on just this topic - that 24 hour period.
I went through it and gave some examples all in slow time step by step - then gave them a set of simple times for a drivers week so they could identify how must rest was taken. There were 2 days with over 13h duty but more than 11h between shifts. Two of them got it wrong.
We did it all again, different approach this time. Different way of looking at it, different delivery method by me. Same again. One driver insisted as long as he worked less than 15 hours it was OK etc etc. when I explained why it wasn’t OK his answer was “■■■■■■■■”.
I ‘think’ we got there in the end but I came to the conclusion some either have learning difficulties, are simply stupid, don’t listen, don’t care or I am actually crap at my job.
These three drivers are from a company currently facing a public inquiry and 3 of the drivers are being prosecuted for this particular offence (and others) that was found at the roadside for one driver and a company visit followed. The particular driver had reduced his rest a fifth time since his last weekly rest. (He also drove a full day without inserting his card!!! 600k’s and didn’t realise). DVSA went back 3 months for each driver.
All drivers at this company have their DCPC and all were ‘trained’ by me. I KNOW what training they had and on each course I go around the room and ask each individual if they have any questions. I cover the daily rest and weekly rest areas in detail. A drivers hours course with me is a full day - most are only half day then some other topic.
I am quite sure I couldn’t do more to try and make sure they get it. The problem is some of the drivers and yes in places the DCPC system isn’t working.
As for the OP. Maybe he just forgot about the 24h rule. Maybe he hadn’t been told due to crap training. But why didn’t his employer pick it up and explain it? His post clearly highlights an operator who doesn’t know his own job.
