Driver CPC Training Courses in the North East of England
Details correct as of 20th January 2020.
Looking to book your next CPC course?
We have a proven track record having ensured over 2500 drivers have obtained their Driver Qualification Cards after attending our courses over the last 6 years. Great feedback, and we have a policy of only using instructors who have experience driving LGV's ! Before you book elsewhere please ensure you check that the instructor has actually had experience out on the roads. Drivers from all over the North East are welcome on our courses whether you live in Newcastle, Durham, Stockton, or wherever! We have lots of drivers attending from Spennymoor, Bishop Auckland and Newton Aycliffe areas. Everyone is welcome!
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For LGV drivers who gained their C1 Category before 10th September 2009 you have what is called 'grandfather rights'
You need the 35 hour course.
If this doesn't apply to you, you are a 'New Driver'.
Check on the back of your drivers licence in column 10 next to C1.
If the date is after 10/09/09 (or their is no date next to C1) you need Initial Driver CPC click here for more...
Or click the PDF icon to download our guide and ensure you book on the correct course... 
Ring 0191 5561004 for more details.
Please have your drivers licence to hand when you ring.
Please Note : Price now £80.00 (inc Vat) per day on all courses (Weekday and Saturday)
Details correct as of January 2020. 
Here is a list of the Full 5 Day courses we have coming up in the next few months...
Our next Driver CPC Courses in the North East with spaces will be...see dates below...
Future Driver CPC Courses On A Saturday and Weekday Courses In The North East
We are now starting to run Saturday CPC Courses again.
Weekdays £80.00* per day. Saturdays £80.00* per day
* Price includes VAT from 1st October 2019
We will be running regular monthly courses again in 2020.. details below.
And here are the dates for our 5 day periodic courses running each month at our main training centre in Sunderland in the New Year (2020).... plus courses at our network partner in Gateshead (Team Valley).
Driver CPC Course Monday 27th to Friday 31st January 2020.
At The Industry Centre in Sunderland. SR5 3XB
Monday 27th : Drivers Hours, Working Time Directive & The Professional Driver
Tuesday 28th : Load Safety & Emergency Actions
Wednesday 29th : Safe and Economic Driving & On the Road
Thursday 30th : Mental Health and Digital Tachographs
Friday 31st : Haulage Operations (Compliance & Enforcement) & Haulage Operations (Road Freight Compliance)
Driver CPC Course Sunday 2nd February 2020
At The Cheviot Hotel in Bellingham
Sunday 2nd February - Mental Health AM and Food and Drink Logistics PM
The price is as per previous years £82.00 (inc vat)
Driver CPC Course Monday 3rd to Friday 7th February 2020.
At Our Network partner in Team Valley.
Monday 3rd : Drivers Hours, WTD & Digital Tachographs
Tuesday 4th : Safe and Economic Driving
Wednesday 5th : Safe Vehicle Loading
Thursday 6th : Company Documents & Procedures
Friday 7th : Health & Safety in Transport
Driver CPC Course Monday 10th to Friday 14th February 2020.
At The Industry Centre in Sunderland. SR5 3XB
Monday 10th : Drivers Hours, Working Time Directive & The Professional Driver
Tuesday 11th : Load Safety & Emergency Actions
Wednesday 12th : Safe and Economic Driving & On the Road
Thursday 13th : Mental Health and Digital Tachographs
Friday 14th : Haulage Operations (Compliance & Enforcement) & Haulage Operations (Road Freight Compliance)
Driver CPC Course Monday 16th to Friday 20th March 2020.
At The Industry Centre in Sunderland. SR5 3XB
Monday 16th : Drivers Hours, Working Time Directive & The Professional Driver
Tuesday 17th : Load Safety & Emergency Actions
Wednesday 18th : Safe and Economic Driving & On the Road
Thursday 19th : Mental Health and Digital Tachographs
Friday 20th : Haulage Operations (Compliance & Enforcement) & Haulage Operations (Road Freight Compliance)
Driver CPC Course Monday 20th to Friday 24th April 2020.
At The Industry Centre in Sunderland. SR5 3XB
Monday 20th : Drivers Hours, Working Time Directive & The Professional Driver
Tuesday 21st: Load Safety & Emergency Actions
Wednesday 22nd : Safe and Economic Driving & On the Road
Thursday 23rd : Mental Health and Digital Tachographs
Friday 24th: Haulage Operations (Compliance & Enforcement) & Haulage Operations (Road Freight Compliance)
Driver CPC Course Monday 11th to Friday 15th May 2020.
At The Industry Centre in Sunderland. SR5 3XB
Monday 11th : Drivers Hours, Working Time Directive & The Professional Driver
Tuesday 12th : Load Safety & Emergency Actions
Wednesday 13th : Safe and Economic Driving & On the Road
Thursday 14th : Mental Health and Digital Tachographs
Friday 15th : Haulage Operations (Compliance & Enforcement) & Haulage Operations (Road Freight Compliance)
Driver CPC Course Monday 15th to Friday 19th June 2020.
At The Industry Centre in Sunderland. SR5 3XB
Monday 15th : Drivers Hours, Working Time Directive & The Professional Driver
Tuesday 16th : Load Safety & Emergency Actions
Wednesday 17th : Safe and Economic Driving & On the Road
Thursday 18th : Mental Health and Digital Tachographs
Friday 19th : Haulage Operations (Compliance & Enforcement) & Haulage Operations (Road Freight Compliance)
Driver CPC Course Monday 6th to Friday 10th July 2020.
At Our Network partner in Team Valley.
Monday 6th : Drivers Hours, WTD & Digital Tachographs
Tuesday 7th : Safe and Economic Driving
Wednesday 8th : Safe Vehicle Loading
Thursday 9th : Company Documents & Procedures
Friday 10th : Health & Safety in Transport
Driver CPC Course Monday 13th to Friday 17th July 2020.
At The Industry Centre in Sunderland. SR5 3XB
Monday 13th : Drivers Hours, Working Time Directive & The Professional Driver
Tuesday 14th : Load Safety & Emergency Actions
Wednesday 15th : Safe and Economic Driving & On the Road
Thursday 16th : Mental Health and Digital Tachographs
Friday 17th : Haulage Operations (Compliance & Enforcement) & Haulage Operations (Road Freight Compliance)
Driver CPC Course Monday 3rd to Friday 7th August 2020.
At Our Network partner in Team Valley.
Monday 3rd : Drivers Hours, WTD & Digital Tachographs
Tuesday 4th : Safe and Economic Driving
Wednesday 5th : Safe Vehicle Loading
Thursday 6th : Company Documents & Procedures
Friday 7th : Health & Safety in Transport
Driver CPC Course Monday 10th to Friday 14th August 2020.
At The Industry Centre in Sunderland. SR5 3XB
Monday 10th : Drivers Hours, Working Time Directive & The Professional Driver
Tuesday 11th : Load Safety & Emergency Actions
Wednesday 12th : Safe and Economic Driving & On the Road
Thursday 13th : Mental Health and Digital Tachographs
Friday 14th : Haulage Operations (Compliance & Enforcement) & Haulage Operations (Road Freight Compliance)
Driver CPC Course Monday 14th to Friday 18th September 2020.
At The Industry Centre in Sunderland. SR5 3XB
Monday 14th : Drivers Hours, Working Time Directive & The Professional Driver
Tuesday 15th : Load Safety & Emergency Actions
Wednesday 16th : Safe and Economic Driving & On the Road
Thursday 17th : Mental Health and Digital Tachographs
Friday 18th : Haulage Operations (Compliance & Enforcement) & Haulage Operations (Road Freight Compliance)
Driver CPC Course Monday 5th to Friday 9th October 2020.
At Our Network partner in Team Valley.
Monday 5th : Drivers Hours, WTD & Digital Tachographs
Tuesday 6th : Safe and Economic Driving
Wednesday 7th : Safe Vehicle Loading
Thursday 8th : Company Documents & Procedures
Friday 9th : Health & Safety in Transport
Driver CPC Course Monday 12th to Friday 16th October 2020.
At The Industry Centre in Sunderland. SR5 3XB
Monday 12th : Drivers Hours, Working Time Directive & The Professional Driver
Tuesday 13th : Load Safety & Emergency Actions
Wednesday 14th : Safe and Economic Driving & On the Road
Thursday 15th : Mental Health and Digital Tachographs
Friday 16th : Haulage Operations (Compliance & Enforcement) & Haulage Operations (Road Freight Compliance)
Driver CPC Course Monday 2nd to Friday 6th November 2020.
At Our Network partner in Team Valley.
Monday 2nd : Drivers Hours, WTD & Digital Tachographs
Tuesday 3rd : Safe and Economic Driving
Wednesday 4th : Safe Vehicle Loading
Thursday 5th : Company Documents & Procedures
Friday 6th : Health & Safety in Transport
Driver CPC Course Monday 16th to Friday 20th November 2020.
At The Industry Centre in Sunderland. SR5 3XB
Monday 16th : Drivers Hours, Working Time Directive & The Professional Driver
Tuesday 17th : Load Safety & Emergency Actions
Wednesday 18th : Safe and Economic Driving & On the Road
Thursday 19th : Mental Health and Digital Tachographs
Friday 20th : Haulage Operations (Compliance & Enforcement) & Haulage Operations (Road Freight Compliance)
Driver CPC Course Monday 7th to Friday 11th December 2020.
At Our Network partner in Team Valley.
Monday 7th : Drivers Hours, WTD & Digital Tachographs
Tuesday 8th : Safe and Economic Driving
Wednesday 9th : Safe Vehicle Loading
Thursday 10th : Company Documents & Procedures
Friday 11th : Health & Safety in Transport
Driver CPC Course Monday 14th to Friday 18th December 2020.
At The Industry Centre in Sunderland. SR5 3XB
Monday 14th : Drivers Hours, Working Time Directive & The Professional Driver
Tuesday 15th : Load Safety & Emergency Actions
Wednesday 16th : Safe and Economic Driving & On the Road
Thursday 17th : Mental Health and Digital Tachographs
Friday 18th : Haulage Operations (Compliance & Enforcement) & Haulage Operations (Road Freight Compliance)
Call Gary or Judith to book your CPC over the phone on 0191 5561004.
Click here for our other course dates.
We have got a simple 3 Step process on our website to allow you to book.
Or call us on 0191 5561004 Please have your drivers licence to hand when you ring.
...and we will guide you through it over the phone. Courses are filling up now on a daily basis and availability is changing on a hourly basis
DEADLINE FOR DRIVERS WAS MIDNIGHT SEPTEMBER 9th 2014 - THE NEXT DEADLINE IS SEPTEMBER 9th 2019 (LGV) - OR 5 YEARS FROM WHEN YOU FIRST GOT YOUR D.Q.C. We are now into the final year before the next big deadline and as yet there is no big rush of drivers booking DCPC renewals, so that points towards an even bigger #brexitbottleneck !
Before You Come On The (35 Hour Periodic Training) Course. Please Note Our Eligibility / Identification Check -
DVSA guidelines on the Gov.uk website states:
"Please be advised that the training provider should be checking before uploading your training on whether you are eligible. This means that they may ask for proof of acquired rights or driver cpc entitlement in the form of a licence and/or DQC. Every training provider has their own processes so they may ask you to provide this proof on the day of the course."
"they may ask for proof of acquired rights" which means to be eligible you need to check you have either:
C1 date on your drivers licence before 09/09/2009. (Column 10 reverse of card)
or
"or driver cpc entitlement in the form of a licence and/or DQC" If your C1 date is after 09/09/2009 you will need both your drivers licence and DQC, or even just the DQC on it's own. We as a company would only accept an in date DQC on it's own however.
Either way, if this is your second cycle of DCPC please bring your DQC as well as your licence.
"Every training provider has their own processes so they may ask you to provide this proof on the day of the course."
The key point there being "proof on the day of the course." We do this every day for this reason.
We are subject to unannounced audits from DVSA, JAUPT, and RTITB. We have had several. All successful, whereby we have applied the above procedure to their satisfaction. This also allows for a speedy turnaround of your new DQC and allows smooth and efficient upload of hours.
We also re-affirmed this during contact with their (DVSA) Accreditation & Compliance Specialist in December 2017.
Click here to view videos of one of our recent courses.
Our drivers on previous courses received their Driver Qualification cards the week after they came on the course! We always ask drivers who are completing their 35 hours periodic training to let us know when their DQC's arrive in the post (to them direct from the DVSA). And tieing in with previous courses the average turnaround was once again 4-5 working days.
So what happens after the course? Click on the icons below to find out more...
After you attend our course your certificates are sent out electronically via email as PDF's. But before that you will receive your Driver Qualification Card aprox 4-5 working days after completing your fifth day.
(This come to you direct from the DVSA after we have uploaded your hours). On the hundreds of previous courses we have ran the average turnaround is 4-5 working days. You can check your hours have been uploaded by us online at the Gov.uk website, but first you much log on (click on 'Your Hours' icon) and create an online account with DVSA who will then send you your log in passord.
We can take your booking over the phone. Or you can complete the 3 step process yourself online.
The process takes 10 - 12 minutes. We can take your registration form details from your photocard part of your drivers license.
Ring Gary or Judith on 0191 5561004 or call Gary on 07544 467347.
We are UK DRIVER CPC NETWORK Ltd. We concentrate solely on the 35 hours of Periodic Training that drivers who already have either PCV or LGV entitlement are required to do every 5 year. We are here to find the best training solution for your business or organisation. Our trainers have been approved to deliver approved training courses for periodic training. Our aim whether it be an enquiry from an individual or a large logistics organisation is to provide the very best solution to meet your requirements.
The 3 main benefits to you in taking your Driver CPC sooner rather than later are:-
1. You will beat the undoubted 'bottleneck' of drivers and companies that are leaving it till the last minute!
2. You will beat any increase in prices when demand outstrips supply!
3. You will be more competitive in the marketplace for work as your competitors drivers will be tied up in the classroom!
What is Driver CPC?
1. 35 Hour Periodic Training. The 35 hours are classroom based theory. Complete the 35 hours satisfactorily and you gain your certificates, then you get your Driver Qualification Card sent to you direct from Driving & Vehicle Standards Agency and...
2. Initial Driver CPC. The Initial Qualification must be achieved by new LGV and PCV drivers along with their vocational licence to enable them to use their licence professionally.
Periodic Training; 35 hours of training every 5 years must be attended by all professional drivers.
Existing Drivers who held a vocational licence prior to the 10th September 2008 (PCV) or the 10th September 2009 (LGV) are exempt from the Initial Qualification.
This is known as "acquired rights".
All professional drivers (new and exisiting drivers) MUST complete a total of 35 hours Periodic Training every 5 years following their "acquired rights" or Initial Qualification to keep their Driver CPC valid.
DRIVERS MUST HAVE COMPLETED THEIR PERIODIC TRAINING BY: SEPTEMBER 2013 (PCV) OR SEPTEMBER 2019 (2nd CYCLE)
SEPTEMBER 2014 (LGV) OR SEPTEMBER 2019 (2nd CYCLE)
So whether you drive up and down the A690, across the M62, or down the A1(M) or around the M25 contact us today.
"What do I need to do to get started?" - click here and enter your details in our enquiry form.
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