The Directive within the collective bargaining and social dialogue in the UK
Stephen Smith Operations Director
Confederation of Passenger Transport UK
• Pre-implementation Stakeholder group• Pre-Directive post licence acquisition
Driver Training – Unstructured • September 08 – 43 Operators and 92
specialist training providers approved to deliver period training PCV courses
• September 09 – 70 Operators and 230 specialist training providers approved
• Sept 08 –Sept 09 12,089 PCV training courses were delivered with an average of 8-10 Drivers on each
• 11,086 by the Bus & Coach Operators and only 1003 by specialist training providers
• Operators with a tradition of facilitating and paying Drivers to attend training
• Operators who facilitate training but expect Driver to do it in own time
• Operators who expect Driver to find and fund their own training
• Major Operators have developed courses which benefit the business
• Smaller Operators delivered training to their Drivers for the First Time
• Drivers better equipped to deliver a safer quality service for passengers and to other road users
• Challenges ahead
• All 160,000 PCV Drivers achieving CPC by Sept 13
• All Operators to embrace CPC