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National Truck & Bus Driver Trainers Conference

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Neil Rowe

Managing Director

ProDrive -The Driver Trainers Ltd

Angie Davies

Consultant

ProDrive – The Driver Trainers Ltd

The Training Implications for the Third EC Directive on Driving Licences

Driver CPC

Angie Davies, Consultant Neil Rowe, Managing Director

© Angie Davies - 2013

Driver CPC

EU Directive 2003/59/EC

Driver Certificate of Professional Competence

Became Law in the UK on:

10th September 2008 for PSV Drivers and

10th September 2009 for LGV Drivers



https://www.gov.uk/dsa

Driver CPC - requirements

New Drivers passing PSV or Goods Vehicle Driving Tests for

commercial use from are required to take a 4 part test as

follows:

Module 1 – (1a) Theory and (1b) Hazard Perception

Module 2 – Initial Driver CPC Theory (set scenarios)

Module 3 – The Driving Test

Module 4 – Initial Driver CPC Practical (Oral Examination of 30

minutes comprising of 5 questions - show me/tell me)


Driver CPC - requirements

Existing licence holders have 5 years to obtain 35 hours of training

to a set criteria culminating with a Drivers Qualifying Card (D.Q.C.)

PSV 10th September 2008 – 9th September 2013

LGV 10th September 2009 – 9th September 2014


Driver Qualification Card


Syllabus

Advanced training in rational driving based on safety regulations

Application of regulations

Health, road environmental safety, service and logistics


Are Drivers in Scope?

Licence entitlements

Employment

Activities


Driver Licence (front)


Pre January 2013 Post January 2013

Pre January 2013 Post January 2013

Driver Licence (rear)


Driver Licence Vocational (rear)


Pre January 2013 to 14/10/12 From 15/10/12 to 18/01/13

Driver Licence (counterpart)

(To be abolished 2014/2015)

Driver Numbers – UK

Data supplied by the Traffic Commissioners in 2008 suggested

the following number of vocational drivers within UK :-

368,200 LGV Drivers

88,745 PSV Drivers

These numbers exclude the holders of UK pre-1997 licences

that were granted grandfather rights of C1 and D1 and also

tested sub entitlements…..


Annual Development of Driver CPC

New Drivers 2008/09 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13

Initial

qualification

3,948

7,524

12,104

14,003

16,511

Existing

Drivers

2008/09 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13

Periodic training

hours logged

430,385

1465,725

2,830,834

3,805,109

5,013,001

Total courses

completed

9,003

32,804

63,582

84,581

103,926

Total attendees

51,834

161,195

315,824

523,520

697,386


Last Year & This Year to 31/07/2013

New Drivers 2012/13

2013/14

July

Initial

qualification

16,511

6,314

Existing

Drivers

2012/13 2013/14

July 31st

Periodic training

hours logged

5,013,001

2,233,372

Total courses

completed

103,926

45,051

Total attendees

697,386

297,791


Other Data

2008/09 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12

2012/13 2013/14

Periodic DQC’s

Issued

655 3,790 10,215 29,219 106,886

70,009

(220,774)

Centre

Approvals

271 559 233 163 203 79

(1,438)

Course

Approvals 514 1,883 2,419 2,976 3,492 1116

(3825)

Active drivers 47,686 150,135 281,629 512,687 613,496 652,667

Audits & QA 0 31 278 C 147

221

604

317

865

116

394



Good Background Reading

Within your group please consider the following and list in order of priority:-

What do you believe would be the 5 most important points emerging

from the EU consultation?

What subjects you think are of the most value to drivers of both sectors?

What would you like to see included?

Should there be a compulsory core of subjects? If so, which?

Should retention of knowledge be tested?

Workshop



Directive 2003/59/EC on the initial qualification

and periodic training of drivers of certain road

vehicles for the carriage of goods or passengers

Directive 2003/59/EC is part of this overall effort to increase the

safety on European roads.

The purpose of the Directive is to raise the standard of new

drivers and to maintain and enhance the professionalism of

existing truck and bus drivers throughout the EU through a

continuous update of their capacities.

The objective of this public consultation is to provide input to the

European Commission in order to assess how effectively the

Directive has met its objectives and what specific action and

measures may need to be adopted to improve its effectiveness.

Please also read the background document.

This Directive provides changes (from 19th January 2013) for:

Definitions of vehicle sub-categories

Progressive access to larger categories of motorbike

The rules on the duration of the administrative validity period (AVP) of a

licence

Mandatory medical checks on the renewal of a Group 2 (bus or lorry)

licence

Minimum standards for driving examiners; and

Steps to ensure no one can at any time possess more than one licence

issued by a EEA State, and

Where the licence has been cancelled or withdrawn in an EEA State where

the holder resided, that other EEA States cannot issue a licence to that

person

Third Directive, 2006/126/EC


From the DSA Consultation in November 2005 the Partial Regulatory Impact

Assessment states the overall objective of the Directive is:

To improve road safety

To improve the professionalism and quality of service offered by

professional drivers

And to facilitate the free movement of workers

The EU Commission also by proposing these measures hoped to:

Encourage more drivers into both road haulage and passenger transport

assisted by a Community wide standard for both Initial Qualification and

Periodic Training for drivers working in road freight and passenger –

carrying sectors.

Directive Objectives in the UK


The proposed new arrangements offer the prospect of major benefits to the

road freight and passenger transport sectors. In particular:

Better qualified drivers should mean savings in fuel consumption (Research

indicates the economic benefits should outweigh the costs of the Directive’s

provisions.)

Better arrangements for skilling professional drivers will enable younger

persons to take up those occupations, which has long been a request from

the 2 sectors.

2005 Consultation Summary of Benefits


If the EU Third Directive intends to up skill drivers through

continuous development, who will also need be up skilled ?

Are you ready???

Summary


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