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Attainment of a National Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) is a prerequisite for any individual or company who wishes to obtain a Standard National Operators (‘O’) Licence to run vehicles exceeding 3.5 tonnes gross vehicle weight (or 1525 kg unladen weight) for ‘hire and reward’ within the UK. It should also be noted that, in order to run both Road Haulage and Passenger Transport Operations, the delegate will need to obtain both CPC’s. The two are mutually exclusive.

At least one person in the organisation — usually the Transport Manager is required to be Professionally Competent. There are a number of routes accepted by the Traffic Commissioner, but the most comprehensive is by examination. The CPC is an NVQ Level 3 qualification — which is considered to be an Advanced Level qualification — administered by the OCR Examination Board. See www.ocr.org.uk for more information.

The CPC series of exams is made up of individual ’stand alone’ modules. The Road Haulage qualification requires the candidate to pass three exams.

Passing any paper will result in a credit being awarded by the OCR examinations board. There is currently no time limit for candidates to complete the qualification. It is however, necessary to pass all three papers to gain recognition as a holder of a CPC in this discipline.

Also note that it is not possible to sit the Road Haulage and Passenger Transport exams at the same sitting as the exams run concurrently.

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Attainment of a National Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) is a prerequisite for any individual or company who wishes to obtain a Standard National Operators (‘O’) Licence to run vehicles carrying passengers for ‘hire and reward’ within the UK unless the vehicle is a licenced hackney carriage or private hire vehicle (less than 9 seats). It should also be noted that, in order to run both Road Haulage and Passenger Transport Operations, the delegate will need to obtain both CPC’s. The two are mutually exclusive.

At least one person in the organisation — usually the Transport Manager is required to be Professionally Competent. There are a number of routes accepted by the Traffic Commissioner, but the most comprehensive is by examination. The CPC is an NVQ Level 3 qualification — which is considered to be an Advanced Level qualification — administered by the OCR Examination Board. See www.ocr.org.uk for more information.

The CPC series of exams is made up of individual ’stand alone’ modules. The Road Haulage qualification requires the candidate to pass three exams.

Passing any paper will result in a credit being awarded by the OCR examinations board. There is currently no time limit for candidates to complete the qualification. It is however, necessary to pass all three papers to gain recognition as a holder of a CPC in this discipline.

Also note that it is not possible to sit the Road Haulage and Passenger Transport exams at the same sitting as the exams run concurrently.

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Attainment of an International Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) is a prerequisite for any individual or company who wishes to obtain a Standard International Operators (‘O’) Licence to run vehicles exceeding 3.5 tonnes gross vehicle weight (or 1525 kg unladen weight) for ‘hire and reward’ within the European Union.

It should also be noted that, in order to run both Road Haulage and Passenger Transport Operations, the delegate will need to obtain both CPC’s. The two are mutually exclusive.

At least one person in the organisation — usually the Transport Manager is required to be Professionally Competent. There are a number of routes accepted by the Traffic Commissioner, but the most comprehensive is by examination. The CPC is an NVQ Level 3 qualification — which is considered to be an Advanced Level qualification — administered by the OCR Examination Board. See www.ocr.org.uk for more information.

In order to obtain an International CPC the candidate must first have obtained the National qualification. The CPC series of exams is made up of individual ’stand alone’ modules. The International Road Haulage qualification requires the candidate to pass an additional exam.

It is possible to sit all four exam modules (1, 2, 4 and 6) on the same day although this would be against our best advice.

Passing any paper will result in a credit being awarded by the OCR examinations board. There is currently no time limit for candidates to complete the qualification. It is however, necessary to pass all three papers to gain recognition as a holder of a CPC in this discipline.

Also note that it is not possible to sit the Road Haulage and Passenger Transport exams at the same sitting as the exams run concurrently.

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Attainment of an International Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) is a prerequisite for any individual or company who wishes to obtain a Standard International Operators (‘O’) Licence to run vehicles carrying passengers for ‘hire and reward’ within the European Union.

It should also be noted that, in order to run both Road Haulage and Passenger Transport Operations, the delegate will need to obtain both CPC’s. The two are mutually exclusive.

At least one person in the organisation — usually the Transport Manager is required to be Professionally Competent. There are a number of routes accepted by the Traffic Commissioner, but the most comprehensive is by examination. The CPC is an NVQ Level 3 qualification — which is considered to be an Advanced Level qualification — administered by the OCR Examination Board. See www.ocr.org.uk for more information.

In order to obtain an International CPC the candidate must first have obtained the National qualification. The CPC series of exams is made up of individual ’stand alone’ modules. The International Road Passenger Transport qualification requires the candidate to pass an additional exam.

It is possible to sit all four exam modules (1, 3, 5 and 7) on the same day although this would be against our best advice.

Passing any paper will result in a credit being awarded by the OCR examinations board. There is currently no time limit for candidates to complete the qualification. It is however, necessary to pass all three papers to gain recognition as a holder of a CPC in this discipline.

Also note that it is not possible to sit the Road Haulage and Passenger Transport exams at the same sitting as the exams run concurrently.

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This course is designed for existing Transport Managers and CPC Holders. It is based around the current CPC course towards the OCR examinations.

The course was devised following requests from a number of existing Transport Managers who recognised that they had had no formal refresher training since passing their CPC — in some cases obtained by ‘Grandfather Rights’. To this end the course concentrates on giving Transport Managers an overview of changes in Transport legislation with specific reference to their role and responsibilities to the Traffic Commissioner.