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