1. The Directive within the collective bargaining and social dialogue in the UK Stephen Smith Operations Director Confederation of Passenger Transport UK

2. Pre-implementation Stakeholder group Pre-Directive post licence acquisition Driver Training – Unstructured September 08 – 43 Operators and 92 specialist training providers approved to deliver period training PCV courses September 09 – 70 Operators and 230 specialist training providers approved

3. Sept 08 –Sept 09 12,089 PCV training courses were delivered with an average of 8-10 Drivers on each 11,086 by the Bus & Coach Operators and only 1003 by specialist training providers

4. Operators with a tradition of facilitating and paying Drivers to attend training Operators who facilitate training but expect Driver to do it in own time Operators who expect Driver to find and fund their own training

5. Major Operators have developed courses which benefit the business Smaller Operators delivered training to their Drivers for the First Time Drivers better equipped to deliver a safer quality service for passengers and to other road users

6. Challenges ahead All 160,000 PCV Drivers achieving CPC by Sept 13 All Operators to embrace CPC