MOBILITY AND TRANSPORT (All drivers affected by EU Directive 2003/57 Drivers CPC)

EU Land Transport Policy

Is to promote a mobility that is efficient, safe, secure and environmentally friendly.

Subject: Social provisions

Framework of social rules for goods and passenger road transport operators

Aim

1. Communicate policy objectives,
2. Overview of common rules,
3. Improve knowledge of CPC regulations and occupational standard,
4. Provide proof of compliance with role and responsibility

Introduction.

Road transport is an essential mode of transport with a very important contribution to the GDP and which employs almost 5 million people in the EU. Making transport safer and more secure is essential in improving working conditions in the sector. Better working conditions in turn contribute to a safer transport environment.

The opening of transport markets in Europe significantly increased the competitive pressure on operators and their mobile workers. In this context social standards with an influence on the cost structure needed to be harmonised to guarantee good working conditions, and to protect the health and safety of workers.

Good working conditions can also contribute to attract young people to enter the profession in a time characterised by an increasing shortage of qualified staff.

The EU has thus established over the years a framework of social rules for goods and passenger road transport operators with three complementary goals:

1. to ensure the adequate social protection of road transport workers;
2. to guarantee a fair competition between the undertakings; and
3. to improve road safety by averting road fatigue.

Overview of rules

This section provides an overview of the different rules developed at an EU level, including those which govern: driving time and rest periods, working time, enforcement, and the recording device Tachograph.

UK Regulation

The Vehicle Drivers (Certificate of Professional Competence) Regulation 2007

Roles and responsibilities

Traffic Commissionaires

Vehicle operators

Operators Compliance Risk Score (OCRS)

Graduated fixed penalty system

HMRC

Moving Goods by Road

Training interventions

List of subjects

Joint Approvals Unit for Periodic  Training

Driver responsibilities

Vocational driver conduct

Roadside checks

Time & Tax records

Mobile worker case study

Understanding  your payslip

Working time training cost

Road Haulage Association (RHA)

Non member (inc VAT)

100.80

Freight Transport Association (FTA)

Non member (inc VAT)

100.50

Scania driver training

(inc VAT)

74.75

Average cost of training  (working time & Tachographs)

92.01

Lost income

110.48

Travel cost

Average cost of working time training to the end user, including  lost income excluding travel cost

202.49