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Mercedes 'takes the lead' on CPC training
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M-B is to offer training for the driver CPC and warns demand for courses will be high. Dylan Gray reports.
MERCEDES-BENZ is establishing itself as a training provider for the driver CPC.
M-B managing director Ian Jones says: "There is a need to create adequate training capacity. M-B wants to take an industry lead in this we've been working on it for over 12 months."
The manufacturer will be using EU-approved 5-7-seat vehicles at 20 or more sites within the M-B network. It also plans to have a pool of rental vehicles for fleet customers that want to provide training at their own premises.
The training is modular and can be tailored to customers' requirements, although certain exercises will be compulsory. M-B also aims to provide the training in different languages.
The training vehicles, which can include secondhand retrofitted models, will come with manual. semiauto or PowerShift transmissions. Jones points out: -The CPC training can be done with any gearbox there is no set requirement."
Existing drivers will not need their CPCs until 2014, but Jones says the training should not be left to the last minute if 500.000 drivers take it, 2.5 million training days will be required.
The CPC remains controversial because existing, trained drivers will have to bear the cost of earning another qualification.