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We have this week been invited to quote for a delivery contract for a third party. It should be a great opportunity to expand our operations. Not so, it seems. We have now run up against the problem of not having an Operator's Licence and have been told it will take a course costing 1:350 (ex-VAT), an examination to get a CPC and a nine-week wait until we are told whether or not WC qualify We have a chap who worked for the company who used to deliver the same items, only using a non-HGV truck. Now, however, we cannot use him until we have been through the above pro
cedure—by which time the contract will have been given to someone else.
We have been told that there are CPC holders who will act for us as consultants to enable us to comply with the 0-licence rules. It is frustrating as we have no intention of running a "cowboy" operation and just want to get on with the business as quickly as possible.
Of course we could do the CPC course and then find that we have missed the opportunity Have any other readers found themselves in this position—and how did they resolve it?
A Davies, Dee Sales, Holyweg Flintshire