Go one up with our CPC offer
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STUDENTS can enrol now for the CMSpecial Offer course for the Certificate of Professional Competence in Road Haulage (Nation in ample time to complete their home studies for the December examination.
Students should remember that after they have passed the CPC exam, Licensing Authorities will require around nine weeks' notice of an operator's licence application in order to process it. Therefore don't delay.
If students are in scope to the Road Transport Industry Training Board the full amount of the course can be claimed back as a training grant.
This present home-study course is for the domestic (national) CPC, But an International pack will be ready in August for the October exam at £69 including VAT, or two instalments of £36. An international course application form will appear in CMat a later date.
The payment rates for the CPC National course are as they appear in the application form at the foot of this page.
Examinations are held five times a year — but not at equal intervals.
This CM Special Offer is made in conjunction with Road Transport Correspondence Courses of Chertsey, Surrey. Each student comes under one of two tutors — Eddie Pargeter and Frank Livesey (Witney 3481) A 'phone call can be made if there are any problems. The course is sent out in sections plus a mock exam which simulates the Royal Society c Arts actual test. It is recommended that students take the mock exam halfway through their course and retu their results to RTCC for marking.
For those not yet employed transport, remember that gaining a CPC is a good first qualification. Around 90 per cE of goods in the United Kingdo are moved by road, either by own-account operators or hir€ or reward hauliers.
The CPC is vital — but a Iota people are failing the RSAexa In 1979 the exam was taken te 12,865 persons — 5,460 were unsuccessful. Ensure that you don't add to this number: join the CM/RTCC home study course, which could mean staying in business. The CPC puts you one up. The followin, is a summary of the home stui course:
First section: Statutory controls; Drivers' hours of work and record: Vehicles taxation; Drivers' licence Traffic procedures.
Second section: Mechanical conditions; Structure of law; Company law; Other services; Mock examinations.
Third section: Social legislation; Traffic accident procedure; Insurance; Weights and dimensiot Vehicle selection; Safe loading am goods in transit.
Fourth section: Meaning of business; Financial management; Commercial conduct; Castings; Licensing.