FTA calls for greater adherence to CPC training

The Freight Transport Association has called on its members to embrace the Driver CPC so as to avoid a backlog of mandatory training requirements towards the end of the first five year term.

With 14,000 members the FTA’s General Manager of Training, Nic Allen said: “FTA members have identified Driver CPC training as their greatest concern, along with fuel duty and transport costs. In order to alleviate anxiety, companies should act now to ensure that they do not miss out on the highest quality courses available. Indeed if companies fail to plan now, there is a real risk that by 2014 demand for Driver CPC training will outstrip the capability for quality training providers to give the measured service that the industry should expect. To that end, many operators also find that working to a five year contract with FTA gives them peace of mind in the planning of their resources, budgets and driver availability.”

Allen continued: “Companies should embrace Driver CPC as a way to improve performance in terms of more fuel efficient driving, safer loading, drivers’ hours compliance, better driver walk-around checks and improved customer service. Compulsory training should be about more than just a box ticking exercise; quality courses will bring with them many long-term commercial benefits, enabling real value for money to be achieved.”

The FTA has said that a technical assessment should be applied at the end of each module so as to ensure that drivers’ have a greater understanding of what is required of them.

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