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P LETTER OF THE WEEK
Page 22
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Tighten up the rules on registering
I READ WITH interest your comments 'Sorting out a muddle' (Comment ; CM 25 March). They couldn't be more true.
As a JAUPT-accredited provider of Driver CPC courses, we're discovering that more and more scams are occurring.
We've had drivers who have attended our courses and are amazed that they last eight hours (seven hours mandatory training plus breaks); they have signed up for and passed accredited seven-hour courses with other providers that didn't even last half a day.
The most obvious scam that concerns us, however, is the number of transport firms that have suddenly become training providers.
With more than 650 providers on JAUFT's books, and less than a handful of people administering the process. what chance of a proper audit?
The average cost of achieving the 35 hours necessary to gain your driver qualification card with a quality-assured accredited centre is about £400. Therefore, it follows that if you have 20 drivers, it will cost a company £8,000 for their drivers to have a Driver CPC that'll last until September 2019.
If you register your company with JAUPT as a training provider, the cost equals £1,500.
Register five courses (or one course every year) and the cost equals £1,260; upload your driver licence details to the Driving Standards Agency at a cost of 5x20x£8.75. which equals 1875 — a total of £3,635.
In other words, a Driver CPC complete for £181.75 per driver plus the added benefits of no driver downtime, no vehicle downtime, no driver wages for the day they're supposed to be training, no agency driver requirements, no need for weekend training and, no training, because their drivers know it all anyway.
By the time any audit comes around — if it ever does — it won't matter, because you did all your 'training' in the first month that you received accreditation. You won't be doing any more Driver CPC training that you never did anyway, until 2019. That's the next time in 10 years you'll be in touch with JAUPT when you'll start doing your re-registering all over again.
It'll get worse before it gets better.
Robert M Thompson European sales director
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