CPC is the Certificate of Professional Competence, this is the essential qualification for people involved in Transport Management and a requirement for operators who run vehicles for hire and reward who need to hold an operators licence.

The course is also suitable for anyone who may not need an operators licence but who need to know the industry best practice procedures to keep in line with VOSA and other regulatory bodies.

We offer courses in National Road Haulage leading up to CPC examinations, the exams are held four times yearly in March, June, September, and December. The exams are open to everyone and we can advise people regarding self study courses.

We are an OCR approved examination centre for:

- National and International Road Haulage
- National and International Passenger Transport

CPC training can be integrated with our other training courses such as LGV and ADR.

For self-study candidates we offer a full range of examinations.

All courses and examinations are held in our main training centre at Kingston Park, Newcastle.

The next available CPC Course starts Monday 20th February and runs until Friday 2nd March 2012.

CPC Qualification Update

The department for Transport (DfT) have recently instigated changes in the Transport Managers CPC Qualification that anyone with an existing qualification or people who will be taking the qualification will need to consider.

The exams on the 9th September and 2nd December 2011 will be the final exams under the current system and the new changes will then take immediate effect. The main changes are identified below:

International and National awards will be incorporated into the same award but there will still be separate haulage and passenger qualifications.

The current 4 exam system will be replaced by two 2-hour exams, 1 exam being a mixture of multi-choice and single sentence response questions, the second being a written case study exam.

For those people who have completed Units 1,2 & 4 or 1,3, & 5, they will still be able to add the international unit to their qualification in 2012 but not beyond the last exams in 2012.

Anyone who has not completed all three units of the national award will have to sit the entire new qualification after 2nd December 2011.

As before, anyone who passed under the pre 1999 A & B system will still have to sit the new exams if they wish to add International qualification to their existing qualification

This summarises the main changes to the CPC Qualification, but there are still some details to be clarified by the DfT and the awarding bodies and we will keep you up to date when more information is available.

For futher information, advice and guidance please contact Tracey Forshaw or Nicola Wilkie