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16/7/2023 at 9:12pm
Location: East Herts
Outfit: 1992 Elddis Wisp 450CT + X Trail
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I gave up driving Heritage buses when my CPC expired. DoT assessors?? What a farce! Just a money spinner for someone. When I did my one and only CPC training course it was just some guy standing at the front of a class reading from a book. He had obviously never driven a truck or a bus in his life, and as for his life and experience, I could well have driven his mother to and from school on my bus in my younger days, as I doubt whether he was even conceived until at least 20 years after I took my first PSV test. I had already retired from full time work when I did that CPC course anyway, so when it expired I didn't bother again as I regarded it as a total waste of money.
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17/7/2023 at 11:08am
Location: Suffolk
Outfit: Romahome Hylo
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I agree whole heartily Colin.
As an owner operator, I held/hold a 'real RSA CPC' and so being told after many years on the road that I need to listen to a snotty nosed kid telling me how to do the job or lose the licence was an insult. I decided to take the wee wee.
As I was multi licenced, the CPC covered both. and as you know, a driver only had to attend the required 35 hours in 7 hour blocks over the 5 year period. I attended two PCV passenger care modules at the beginning, and three LGV load and tachograph in the week of my deadline. There were no exams, no pass or fail, on the practical drive you could drive like a loony...nothing they could do about it, this has since changed.
Repetition of a module is no longer allowed, there are now written and practical tests that must be passed.
Also strict rules and exams are now in place to obtain a licence to become a trainer and provide the courses.
In the last few years of my active life, I was a DoT approved motorcycle instructor and as such had regular assessments from driving test examiners.
The assessors I would suggest for a senior driver check-up could easily be recruited from the driving school stables, the assessment paid for by the state.
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27/7/2023 at 4:08pm
Location: East Herts
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Yes I saw that Starcraft. If they bring in medicals for us oldies I would have no objection whatsoever, as long as it's free!
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