Road Haulage CPC
Deadline for the Friday 10th June 2022 CPC exams, and their payments, is Tueday 17th May 2022, after this date exam entries can not be guaranteed.
Student course manuals will be available to collect, from the training venue by arrangement. Or they can be posted to your home or another address, there will, however, be a P&P charge for this.
Freight Operations CPC update:
The exam structure will comprise 1 x 2 hour multi-choice examination and 1 x 2 hour 15 minutes case study examination.
It has been confirmed that there will be no "weighting" of the marks for each of the two examinations. Skills & Education Awards Group has decided to go with a 60 question multiple choice examination and a 60 mark case study paper. Keeping the current nominal pass marks of 70% and 50% respectively will allow the 60% overall pass mark required by the Regulation to be achieved most simply.
The case study structure is confirmed as 5 to 8 questions on the paper with a maximum of 12 marks for any one question and a minimum of 7 marks. The case study exam is now 'open book'. There will allways be a Costings, 'O' Licence and Driver's Hours question in each paper.
With regard to mark allocation, most case study marks were historically awarded to candidates for writing down simple facts. In future, examinations will require candidates to outline courses of action and to provide reasoning to justify those courses of action.
Given the significant reduction in the number of questions to be answered, the pre-release senario has been abandoned and candidates will have to use some of the two hours and 15 minutes of exam time for reading and analysing the material. It is now definite, that in the case study examination only, students will be able to take any paper based material into the examination for reference.
The exams will take place in March, June, September and December each year.
Certificate of Professional Competence (Road Haulage)
The requirement for a Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) is contained in the Goods Vehicle (Licensing of Operators) Act 1995.
DfT that requires somebody who wants to be an owner driver, to run a transport company for hire and reward or to named on the 'O' licence be:-
- Professionally competent i.e. A CPC Holder
- Of good repute
- Of appropriate financial standing
The qualification is in two parts with the course presented to allow students to confidently sit the Skills & Education Group Awards examination that, which once passed, proves competence.
There are two parts to these exams
- Unit R1 - Core, 60 multiple choice questions in 2 hours with 70% pass mark
- Unit R2 - Case Study, 5 to 8 questions answered long hand in 2 hour 15 minutes - pass 50% pass mark (exam open book).
Our 8 day Freight Operation courses, the recommended format, are run 4 times per year, with the final day to coincide with the nationaly held OCR board examinations. All examinations are taken quarterly in March, June, September and December with a closing date of four weeks prior to exam date and an approximate wait of 8 weeks for the published result.
Our prices include all tuition, manuals and examination fees. These are subject to VAT as applicable.
CPC Homestudy
We can also supply materials etc for homestudy in:
- Freight Operations
- Passenger Operations
You can then join us on the CPC examination day at our training centre in Totton, Nr Southampton.
Course cost:
International Freight Operations £1480.00 inc VAT and exam entries.
CPC Online Modules
We can help with your study at home, office or workspace with online, via Zoom, various modules 'face to face'.
Please phone for other prices: e.g. Home Study, correspondence study, Online modules, Exam entries or Refresher days.
All examinations are VAT exempt and, once booked, are non-refundable.