
QDL Truck Smart CPC Course
QDL Truck Smart driver training is an accredited CPC course. Equipping drivers with the knowledge and skills to operate and manage safe and roadworthy vehicles.
This course focuses on the importance of driving roadworthy LGVs and the role of the driver in ensuring that vehicles and loads are safe and legal at all times.
QDL Truck Smart CPC Course Content:
- Load Safety – Plan and position your load safely, secure your load correctly
- Vehicle Checks – before, during and after journeys – recording and reporting
Two practical sessions involved for both Safe & Secure Loading and Vehicle Checks!
Topics covered in the course:
- Moral, Economic & Legal Responsibilities
- Walkaround checks
- Defect Reporting
- Wheel and Tyre conditions
- Vehicle Check Walkaround – Practical Session
- Review practical session findings
- Inspections & LGV Safety Systems
- Risk, Consequences & Penalties
- Enforcement Bodies – roles & responsibilities
- Safe Loading – principles of safe loading
- Driver responsibilities
- Load securing system
- Types of Load Transported, including potential risks
- Overloading
- Safe Loading – Practical Session
- ALPHA Checks
- Review practical session findings
- Effects of Load Security & Stability
- Mitigating Loads