Don't forget to refresh!
If you hold Transport Manager CPC qualification In Road Haulage but need a refresher, this is the perfect way to bring you up to speed on any developments in compliance.
If you are actively using your Transport Manager CPC qualification named on an Operator’s Licence, it is essential to keep your knowledge up to date.
Attending our 2-day Transport Manager CPC Refresher Course within 5 years of gaining your initial qualification or since your last refresher will evidence your Continued Professional Development, which is specifically referred to in the Statutory Guidance issued by the Senior Traffic Commissioner. The DVSA also now consider this when assessing an operator’s compliance.
All Directors and senior managers are expected to exercise effective oversight of compliance with their Operator’s Licence undertakings – regardless of whether the operation of large vehicles is your main business activity or an ancillary part of your business.
Course Content
Day One
- Introduction to the course, aims and objectives
- Traffic Commissioners, their role, responsibilities, and powers
- Licence types, the application process and management of an “O” licence
- Transport Manager and Operator Declarations
- The criteria for holding an “O” licence
- The role of the Transport Manager
- Driver licencing
- Traffic Accident Procedures
- Safe Loading including Hazardous Goods Awareness
- Drivers Hours / Application of Regulation 561/2006
- Working Time Regulations
- Tachograph Features
- Manual Entries / Lost Stolen or Malfunctioning Cards
- Tachograph Analysis
- Course Summary, Review, Evaluation and Feedback
Day Two
- Overloading
- Speed Limits and Traffic Regulations
- Environmental controls
- Vehicle Maintenance / Responsibilities
- Daily workaround checks and Defect Reporting
- Regulators, DVSA enforcement and Concessions
- Operator Compliance Risk Score
- Health and Safety
- Driver employment
- Conditions of Carriage and CMR
- International aspects of transport
- Prevention of Clandestine Entrants
- Course Summary, Review, Evaluation and Feedback