Drivers Hours & Working Time Directive - Drivers CPC

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Ample parking on site (FOC)

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
  

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

QDL Training Ltd, 120 Beddington Lane, Croydon, United Kingdom