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Driver’s Hours & Legal Obligations

Our Driver CPC – Drivers’ Hours and Legal Obligations course equips professional drivers with the essential knowledge and understanding required to comply with current legislation in the UK and EU, manage working hours effectively, and maintain high safety standards. This vocational module counts as 7 hours towards Driver CPC Training and is ideal for drivers seeking to strengthen their legal compliance, improve professional competence, and ensure they operate within the rules governing road transport and driver welfare.

Welcome and Introduction (30 mins)

30 mins

  • Ice breaking, introduction and objectives of the course, fair processing notice, day’s activities including course timetable, topics to be covered and ground rules.
  • Explain and carry out a pre-course prior knowledge review.
  • PowerPoint Presentation

Relevant updates as provided by DVSA, Traffic Commissioners and Highways England

30 mins

  • Showing content appropriate videos as provided by DVSA, Highways England Vulnerable Road Users and FORS safety video
  • PowerPoint Presentation & Video

Recording Systems including mode selection and record keeping

75 mins

  • Show videos, covering digital tachographs. Importance of correct mode selection and record keeping.
  • How to make manual records on both digital and analogue platforms.
  • Discuss tacho calibration and keeping sufficient supplies.
  • PowerPoint Presentation & Video

Legal Obligations of driver and operator. Drivers hours, rest periods and the causes of enforcement notices.

90 mins

  • Covering all aspects in relation to conduct and mitigating the risks of inadvertently assisting in people smuggling and its serious implications.
  • Implications of different driver hours regimes and how they affect day to day work. Impact of the Working Time Regulations in relation to EU driver hours.
  • Discuss impact on drivers and operators of rule breaking.
  • How the Traffic Commissioners view the conduct of professional drivers in respect of breaking the law on mobile hand-held units etc.
  • The effects that diet and alcohol can have on driver performance.
  • PowePoint Presentation 

Walkround Check Video

30 mins

  • PCV DRIVERS ONLY – LGV Drivers have Lunch Break
  • PowerPoint Presentation & Video

Walkround Check Video

30 mins

  • LGV DRIVERS ONLY – PCV Drivers have Lunch Break
  • Powerpoint Presentation & Video

Efficient Driving

60 mins

  • Satellite navigation technology and its use in geo-tunnelling.
  • Discuss how efficient driving is beneficial to vehicle, driver and operator.
  • Examples or poor satellite navigation use.
  • Powerpoint Presentation & Video

Traffic Signs

60 mins

  • Understanding and interpreting traffic signs and restrictions, plus its uniqueness to PCV and LGV drivers.
  • Discussing the meanings of different types of signs.
  • ​Importance of adhering to different types of signs i.e. Height restrictions, weight restrictions and width restrictions.
  • Powerpoint Presentation & Pictorial Examples

End of Day Routine

15 mins

  • Correct end of day routine, to cover final walkround checks and correct mode selections on tachograph.
  • Discussion

Review

30 mins

  • Discuss prior knowledge reviews against aims, objectives and feedback
  • Individual quiz answers if required

Total Duration

7 hours

The course is classroom based and taught via Powerpoint Presentation and discussion. It will count as 7 hours towards Driver CPC Training.

For more information or to book call 07769 920050 or send us an email​.

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