Highlights and Features
- The modular format of this course allows you to choose the topics for the training.
- Five varied modules to choose from all designed in conjunction with National Highways.
Driver CPC – National Highways Modular Course 2023
The following modules have been developed for industry in partnership with National Highways.
- National Highways – Safer People
- National Highways – Safer Vehicles
- National Highways – Health & Wellbeing
- National Highways – Bridge Strikes
- National Highways – Smart Motorways
Please select two half-day modular topics to form one 7-hour DCPC course for completion.
Price On Application
Logistics UK Member Price: £112
- Each half day module lasts 3.5 hours (equivalent to 0.5 days).
- Classroom (max 20 people)
Pricing
Public
Non members: £129 (ex. VAT)
Members: £112 (ex. VAT)
In-company
Additional information
| course_length | Each half day module lasts 3.5 hours (equivalent to 0.5 days). |
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| max_classroom_delegates | 20 |
Who Should Attend?
For vocational drivers wishing to take 35 hours of periodic training to keep their Driver Certificate of Professional Competence.
Modules
- Safer People
- Safer Vehicles
- Health and Wellbeing
- Bridge Strikes
- Smart Motorways
Safer People
Safer People
This modular course has been designed in partnership with National Highways, to support the logistics industry and to engage with drivers in understanding the importance of the safe use of a commercial vehicle plays on the country’s strategic road network
Benefits
- Reduce the risk of your vehicles being involved in an incident on a high-speed road.
- Increase awareness of the consequences of unsafe vehicles and careless attitudes when driving at higher speeds.
- Reduce vehicle incidents and delays on strategic road network.
- Promote understanding of the roles and responsibilities of drivers on roads managed by National Highways.
- Help to ensure that all ‘high speed road’ users travel safely.
Content
Courses are delivered through a mixture of Instructor led sessions, group discussions, team competitions, games and quizzes. Both the design and content of the courses promote, support and encourage delegate engagement throughout.
- The contribution that a positive attitude to driving on a ‘highspeed road’ can make to safety and security.
- The moral, legal and social responsibilities of driving on highspeed roads.
- Diesel spillage – the real cost.
- Distracted drivers – cause and effect
- Smart motorways and their users.
Duration
3.5 hours in duration and will be combined with another half day
module.
Delivery
Remote online virtual or face-to-face classroom – Instructor led.
Safer Vehicles
Safer Vehicles
This modular course has been designed in partnership with National Highways, to support the logistics industry and to engage with drivers in understanding the importance of the safe use of a commercial vehicle plays on the country’s strategic road network.
Benefits
- Reduce the risk of your vehicles being involved in an incident on a high-speed road.
- Increase awareness of the consequences of unsafe vehicles and careless attitudes when driving at higher speeds.
- Reduce vehicle incidents and delays on strategic road network.
- Promote understanding of the roles and responsibilities of drivers on roads managed by National Highways.
- Help to ensure that all ‘high speed road’ users travel safely.
Content
- The impact that the unsafe use of goods vehicle can have on users of ‘high speed roads’.
- Tyre safety and management of tyres.
- Factors that affect vehicle loads and loading.
- Blind spots, including an overview of the National Highways Blind Spot VR App.
Duration
3.5 hours in duration and will be combined with another half day module.
Delivery
Remote online virtual or face-to-face classroom – Instructor led.
Health and Wellbeing
Health and Wellbeing
This modular course has been designed in partnership with National Highways, to support the logistics industry and considers the similarities between a professional driver and a professional athlete – both must consider the importance of their health and wellbeing in their job role.
Benefits
- Understanding the part that hydration and nutrition play in staying focused behind the wheel.
- How a positive mindset can aid in identifying the triggers of stress and how easy to adopt techniques can reduce its impact.
- Appreciate the impact that distractions and impairment can have on a professional drivers performance whilst driving.
Content
- Highlight the importance of wellbeing for the professional driver.
- Fatigue and sleep routines
- Diet and nutrition – You are what you eat
- Mental Health and manging emotions
- Distractions in the cab and attitudes to impairment
- Viewing strategies and visual performance
Duration
3.5 hours in duration and will be combined with another half day module.
Delivery
Remote online virtual or face-to-face classroom – Instructor led.
Bridge Strikes
Bridge Strikes
This modular course has been designed in partnership with National Highways, to support the logistics industry and highlight the risk that collisions with bridges poses to all users of high-speed roads.
Benefits
- Remind professional drivers of the importance of road safety and help safeguard vocational licences.
- Improved understanding of road signage relating to bridges and diversion routes.
- Understand the correct actions to take should a bridge strike occur.
- Highlight the costs and consequences of bridge strikes to all road users and vehicle operators.
Content
- To share past operator experience with bridge strikes and learn from these experiences.
- Checks before driving.
- The importance of route planning.
- Bridge Strikes – dealing with it.
- Consequences and costs
- The Traffic Commissioner’s view
- Education is better than litigation - Prevention measures.
Duration
3.5 hours in duration and will be combined with another half day module.
Delivery
Remote online virtual or face-to-face classroom – Instructor led.
Smart Motorways
Smart Motorways
Developed in partnership with National Highways, this half day course provides guidance to drivers on variant types of Smart motorway systems in use on our road network. It aims to improve driving behaviour by imparting knowledge and understanding of motorway sign compliance, speed limits, red X markings, use of the hard shoulder and defensive driving principles to reduce the risk of road traffic collisions.
Benefits
- Increased driver awareness of UK Smart motorway systems and how they operate.
- Engage with drivers to increase compliance in the use of Smart motorways.
- Reduce the number of vehicle incidents and road delays.
- Promote safer driving behaviour.
- Improve road safety and driver knowledge.
- Reduce vehicle incidents and delays.
Content
- Types of Smart motorway.
- Design features of Smart motorways.
- The technology and different signs and signals used on Smart motorways.
- Driving behaviour.
- Rating driving standards and evaluating road risk.
- Personal factors affecting driver behaviour.
- Road risks and how Smart motorways can improve safety.
Duration
3.5 hours in duration and will be combined with another half day module.
Delivery
Remote online virtual or face-to-face classroom – Instructor led.
Make an enquiry
Logistics UK can help you choose a course or develop a unique training programme that is right for you, we will be delighted to answer any questions you may have. You can also call us on 03717 11 22 22.
Join our Consortium
For organisations that have in-house trainers and training facilities, the Consortium gives members the opportunity to deliver Driver CPC courses without having to apply for accreditation through the Driver Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA).
Talk to a member of the Logistics team now
Logistics UK can help you choose a course or develop a unique training programme that is right for you, we will be delighted to answer any questions you may have. Call us on 03717 11 22 22
