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BCT launches driver test

28th February 1991
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• A Bus & Coach Council subsidiary is devising a qualification for PSV drivers.

The BCC's wholly owned subsidiary, Bus and Coach Training, plans to introduce the scheme in May, but it has yet to be recognised by the National Council for Vocational Qualifications.

This is the first national vocational qualification for PSV drivers. It follows the BCT's initiative last summer, when it introduced the Vehicle Engineering Competence Assessment Scheme for bus and coach engineers.

It is not an academic test — it is an assesssment of how a driver does his or her job," says chief executive Maurice Jones.

As well as a section on safety and passenger care there will be an assessment of drivers in their specific markets, but drivers will be warned when they are going to be assessed, says Jones.

When the scheme is launched the Bus & Coach Council will introduce changes to its four-year-old coach drivers code of practice. "We are working with the BCT so that when the assessment is launched we will re-launch our existing coach drivers code of conduct, so that it will apply to all PSV drivers and include elements of the NVQ scheme," says the BCC's David Watson. "The overall purpose is to encourage driving staff to put themselves up for assessment."

The code of conduct covers all BCC members, who include 95% of UK bus operators and 65% of the coach fleets.

Once the driver assessment scheme is in place the BCT will consider a similiar plan for national drivers along the lines of those developed for truck drivers by the RHA and a group of parcels carriers (CM 22-28 March 1990).


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