Just been googling the cpc in transport management looking at previous exam papers. Just wondered how common this is when you start a job. I know it is only a question on the case study paper but I would imagine some employers can be strict on this.
5. Drivers are not permitted to take breaks until they are legally required to do so. 6. Drivers on numbered delivery routes may only take one break each day. 7. Driver breaks must be for the shortest possible time.
Here I was thinking that I could take a break whenever I fancied one
Law is that a driver must take a break to comply to the regulations
Safety at work act entitles the driver to take a break whenever they feel there is a health or safety need
Any employer who goes against those is really asking for a legal bomb shell to be dropped on them
Are they actually regulations or just part of a scenario? Any employer trying to enforce those rules on me wouldn’t be my employer for long. My breaks are taken at my convenience.
JS8576:
Just been googling the cpc in transport management looking at previous exam papers. Just wondered how common this is when you start a job. I know it is only a question on the case study paper but I would imagine some employers can be strict on this.
5. Drivers are not permitted to take breaks until they are legally required to do so. 6. Drivers on numbered delivery routes may only take one break each day. 7. Driver breaks must be for the shortest possible time.
Here I was thinking that I could take a break whenever I fancied one
These look more like how NOT to do things.
Without seeing rest of question/scenario your asking for comments that will probably be out of context given the little snippet you’ve posted
The details you have given are just part of the scenario for an exam question.
They aren’t rules in real life. They aren’t meant to even represent real life. They are just to make the person taking the exam work a bit harder and to limit their possible answers and make them think about the actual regulations more.
There have been times where I’ve done a drop, been really tired so I pulled over and had an hours kip. Works wonders. It is a plus point to this industry, I don’t need permission to take a break!
Was an exam question scenario but I assumed that they would only ask realistic questions which would happen in the workplace else it defeats the point of the exam.
Like you say it may be worded in such a way to force the candidate to answer the question without letting other factors influence the answer.
I didn’t look through all of paper. Still unsure if it’s worth bothering with. I don’t mind the technical stuff but it looks like 80% business/law/management/accounts.
JS8576:
Was an exam question scenario but I assumed that they would only ask realistic questions which would happen in the workplace else it defeats the point of the exam.
Like you say it may be worded in such a way to force the candidate to answer the question without letting other factors influence the answer.
I didn’t look through all of paper. Still unsure if it’s worth bothering with. I don’t mind the technical stuff but it looks like 80% business/law/management/accounts.
I know the Management CPC has changed since I took mine, but not much. I wouldn’t say it is 80% business law etc, I think maybe 60% as those topics add up to a lot of running a business and DVSA compliance is the rest but it is worth doing as it can open the doors to different employment.
I know my compliance stuff inside out and thought the exam would be a piece of cake. I got in the exam room, opened the paper and almost died. Most of it was accounting and financial stuff (well a lot of it) - my worst subject. So I just cracked on, did a great job of the transport related stuff and the best I could on the accounts and other stuff. I passed but I think it was a scrape through. If I remember correctly the transport related stuff was weighted in the scoring so that it was more important and got you higher scores. So I guess I mean the accounts questions were small but plentiful. The compliance/transport questions were biggies but not as many questions.
The questions in the case study part of the exam are nowhere near realistic - never have been! it is as you say, it forces the person taking the exam to work in a certain way and restricts their method of answering.
