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This course is designed to highlight drivers’ responsibilities under drivers’ hours legislation and provide practical experience of working with digital equipment. We only work with the best trainers that have a wealth of knowledge. This helps any professional driver to gain a better understanding when out on the road. Topics covered include:

Operator Licensing

Understanding of operator licensing commitments and undertakings and how this impacts the driver and operator

Drivers’ Hours Introduction

Drivers’ hours, Driving breaks, Daily driving and extension, Weekly driving.
Fixed week, Fortnightly driving, daily rest periods and reductions.
Drivers Hours & Working Time Regulations
EU drivers hours rules and working time regulations
Use of recording equipment
Domestic regulations and record keeping requirements
Duty time & rest reductions
Compensation & Unforeseen Circumstances
Regulations & average working week
Inclusions + exclusions – periods of availability, night work

Tachograph Regulations

Failure & Misuse
Producing records
Procedures for driving without driver card
Tachograph Rules
Tachograph record keeping
Tachograph compliance and penalties

Digital Tachographs

Driver card and data storage
Introduction to digital tachograph
Digital Tachograph developments and changes
Print outs + type of print outs
Manual entries with simulator exercises
Data collection
How to use digital tachograph

Powers of enforcement

Offences & Penalties
Graduated Penalties
Enforcement Action

What is OCR

Operator Compliance Score
How does it work
Results of poor OCR score

VU Technical Development

Future changes/enhancements to the VUs

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Drivers Hours & Working Time Directive - Drivers CPC