Driver CPC

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What is a Driver Certificate of Professional Competence?

If you are looking to drive larger vehicles professionally, from truck, minibus, bus to lorry. It is important that you acquire Driver CPC. The Driver Certificate of Professional competence allows you the legal ability to professionally drive heavy duty vehicles. If you do not hold this certificate you cannot commercially drive and it is important to know that the vehicles under 45km/h speed limit do not need Driver CPC.

Driver CPC is a test divided into two parts, the Theoretical and the Practical. The first part of the Theoretical part and the first part of the Practical part create the regular driving exam, however if the second parts are not finished within the first 2 years of the first parts of these two exams, you will have to redo everything to get a Driver CPC from the first test.

Theoretical Test

Theoretical exam in general comes in two parts, the Theory Questions and the Case study, it is important to understand that the first part is included in the normal licence, the theory questions are mandatory for anyone taking a driving exam, for professional or private purposes to pass.  

·         Theory

¾     Multiple Choice Questions

Multiple choice questions regarding the vehicle, laws and driving. It can also include the questions regarding your action in a situation, such as what you would do in an accident.

¾     Hazard Perception

Hazard perception is a simulation or a video of multiple hazards, there are total 1-2 hazards in each video and you can get 5 marks per video as the highest.

·         Case Study

Case study provides you with multiple choices with detailed cases on a truck or lorry drive with different scenarios and you may need to choose one or more choices in each questions, there are a minimum of 6 choices each question. You need to score a total of 85% to pass this test.

Practical Test

·         Practical

The Practical exam is basically the driving skills of the participant on the actual track. This is not only revolving around your driving skills but also how you handle the inside of the car, the mirrors, the gears, the seatbelt, etc. Everything is being noted and you need to be careful in your exam.  

¾     Driving on road

Driving on a road can be difficult, you need to navigate your way through the heavy traffic demonstrate that you are capable of not crashing, burning and dying, or worse, killing.

¾     Driving off road

Driving off roads for Driver CPC is important, you may not be able to safely demonstrate your driving on the road so the course allows you to show things like parallel parking and the such.

¾     Regular Questions.

Regular questions will be asked and some of them can be confusing, such as “Why you did that”, it may not be a critique but you need to remain calm to gauge the sense of question.

·         Demonstration of safety protocol

Demonstration of how you start the vehicle, how you check if the product is locked in place, if you do a walk around. According to Driver Hire Uxbridge, it is much more than that but you can ask them about it. This is just the highlight of everything.

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What is Driver CPC Training and who needs it?

Diver CPC is known as the Driver Certificate for Professional Competence. This qualification is aimed for the drivers who are looking to gain professional driving qualification to drive large vehicles like bus, coach, truck, HGV, and lorry buses. All the drivers who are driving a vehicle with more than 9 seats of passengers or a vehicles over 3.5 tonnes must obtain professional CPC driver qualification to drive. In order to maintain the road safety and standard for driving, CPC Driving qualification was first introduced by European Union and then it as widely accepted by other countries to order to maintain high standards of road safety.

Whether you are a novice in CPC driving or have professional CPC course, you need to get the training of CPC driver for the period of 35 hours. The training must be conducted in your own country where you are working as a professional driver. Which means if you have obtained CPC drover training from a country and if you are moving to some other country with same career of professional driver, you must renew your CPC training and need to clear the examination once again. However, if you did not qualified CPC Driver training that is required for professional driving, you may be alleged to the fine of £1,000, if you caught red handed driving large vehicles without any proof of required qualification. Therefore, it is mandatory to attain the professional qualification of CPC Driving if you want to drive large vehicles. And this it is crucial for you and or your business to have required qualification before driving large and professional vehicles.

There are two types of Driver CPC. For novice drivers, CPC is calculated from 4 parts in attaining you HGV License.

Part 1 include Theory Test,

Part 2 Case study: in this part, the driver is give a number of different situations where they find themselves outside the road and need to clear the case study to meet the target required,

Part 3 include Practical Driving Test,

Part 4 include: Driver CPC Practical test. This include demonstration for interactive vehicles safety and the driver is given a number of tasks and in order to qualify for this driving test, the driver must need to clear all the demonstrations operations within the required time.

And in order to qualify for professional CPC Driving, the driver must be qualify all fours parts of the test to attain the full professional Driver CPC qualification.

However, if you have made your plan to attain the professional qualification and looking for a a reliable and well reputed driving institute or instructor to gain CPC Driver training, you must get in touch with Driver Hire Uxbridge.