ONLINE - Drivers Hours & WTD CPC course

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 and data collection
• How to use digital tachograph

Analogue Tachographs

• The recording equipment
• Tachograph Record
• Creating the record

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

Camera and microphone must be switched on throughout the course.

DVSA’s expectation is that a driver will:

• Have their camera switched on at all times
• Be situated in a suitable learning environment throughout the course
• Remain engaged for the full duration of the course

Driving Licence Check:

All attendees must have their licence on them at the beginning of the course so that licence checks can be carried out. Licence checks will start from 07:00, the course will start at 07:30 prompt, you will not be able to join the course if you arrive later than 07:30 (no refund will be given)

Price includes VAT and DVSA upload fee