Another year has come and gone in the lives of professional lorry and bus drivers. With 2016 now upon us, we want to offer our readers a friendly reminder about CPC qualification requirements. Drivers required to renew their qualification cards in 2016 will have 12 months to do so; those who needed to renew in […]

The main impetus for implementing the Driver CPC requirements was the desire to make European roads safer by ensuring HGV and PCV drivers are routinely trained about safety and workplace issues. If road safety is not improved as a result, implementation of the programme will have been in vain. This leads us to ask the […]

Earlier this year, the Transport Select Committee was entertaining the possibility of partnering with the haulage and transport industries to address the ongoing driver shortage. The Committee asked for input from industry groups who believed they might have common sense solutions that could be applied with government support. Of course, groups like the Freight Transport […]

The news is routinely filled with all kinds of stories about how HGV drivers are dangerous and reckless. Rarely do we see news items to the opposite. So it should be understandable how happy we are to be able to report on an HGV driver whose heroism may have prevented a serious accident and saved […]

What is CPC and how do I find a training provider? This is a question we frequently hear at the HGV Training Centre. Fortunately, we can provide both the answer and the training drivers need. We are approved under the Driver CPC scheme here in the UK.

At this time last year, we were talking about the recent passing of the CPC deadline and the fact that HGV drivers who had not yet completed CPC courses needed to do so or risk fines or potential job loss. We are now happy to report that recent DVSA numbers prove the nation’s drivers are […]

It has been a year since the deadline passed for HGV drivers to be CPC trained. Statistics indicate that the vast majority of UK drivers are now in compliance. Yet some industry representatives are saying now is not the time to put the issue on the back burner and ignore it. The best way to […]

A Milton Keynes HGV driver and company owner is calling for a unique kind of training after reading news coverage of a tragic accident that took the life of a 35-year-old driver in late July (2015). He says it is time to start requiring drivers to pass a motorway test in order to use the […]

The CPC training requirements first introduced for discussion in Europe more than a decade ago are now the law of the land. Here in the UK, both HGV and PCV drivers had deadlines of 2014 and 2013 respectively to earn their certificates under the regulations. From this point forward, professional drivers must undergo at least […]

The UK joined other European countries in 2013 when the CPC qualification requirements for bus and coach drivers went into effect. The same CPC rules became official for HGV drivers in September 2014. The implementation of the qualifications now means it is impossible to be a professional PCV or HGV driver without meeting CPC requirements.