CPC Training Modules

LGV Approved:  Module B - Daily walk round checks, Defect reporting & Safe Loading of Vehicles (7 hrs)

• Introduction to module including aims and objectives
• Maintaining Roadworthiness, Operator’s Licence commitment including OCRS
• Powers of DVSA and Traffic Commissioner
• Drivers Responsibility. How to carry out a Check and equipment required
• Recording of checks and defects, Completing a `Nil Defect’ and Defect Report
• Legislation and Guides governing safe loading of goods Vehicles
• Approved codes of Practice (Department for Transport - Safety of Loads on Vehicles)
• An Operators responsibility & Consequences of unsafe loads
• Drivers Responsibility & Principles of Safe Loading, Securing equipment & forces acting on loads
• Weights and load distribution
• Height restrictions, Maximum Weights, Axle weights, Load distribution, Overloading, WIMS