TTS Course
Safe Loads, Safe Roads (Lorry only)
Event Date:
14/05/2026
13/08/2026
Event Location:
Transport Training Services, 15 Dundrod Road, Crumlin, Co Antrim BT29 4SS
Course Description
Identify principles of safe loading, including load planning and documentation required.
Vehicle requirements and loading considerations and use of specialised equipment.
Review methods of restraint used to prevent load movement (restrain/contain) and overloading GVW/axle weights.
Discuss load security (theft/clandestine entrants/spillage/ rollover).
Examine specialist loads (high/wide/long) affecting load stability and tie down schemes (plant/heavy loads).
Illustrate load security compliance (offences/fines/endorsements/disqualifications).
Explain safe driving principles (forces/dimensions).
Highlight vehicle security (hijack/theft/personal items).
Identify vehicle technology (driver assistance) – proximity sensors, advanced emergency braking system, anti-roll control, brake assistance.
Discuss defensive driving – driving conditions, driver experience, interacting with and predicting other road users’ actions.
Debate vulnerable road users (cyclists, motorcyclists, horse riders, pedestrians, young/old drivers).
Review roadside vehicle checks (offences/fines/endorsements/disqualifications).
Powers of inspecting officers (DVSA/HSE/Police).
Subject Areas
- Health, Safety & Emergencies
- Legislation for Carriage of Goods
- Loading/Unloading
- Professional Driver & Company Issues
- Vehicle Systems (Safety)
- Vehicle Systems (Transmission)
- Vulnerable Road Users
Course Cancellation: No refund will be made for any candidate who fails to attend or does not complete the course. Cancellations or changes must be made within a specified timeframe before the course date, otherwise full fees will be charged and no refund will be made. The cancellation policy for this course is 5 working days prior to the course start date.
Course Date
16/01/2026 (08:45am – 05:00pm)
12/02/2026 (08:45am – 05:00pm)
14/05/2026 (08:45am – 05:00pm)
13/08/2026 (08:45am – 05:00pm)
Course Fees
Course Fee – £45.00
Course VAT – £9.00
Registration Fee – £8.75
TOTAL – £62.75
Requirements for Booking
- It is the driver’s responsibility to monitor their own total of completed hours. If you are unsure of your total, you can find out how much lorry or bus periodic training you’ve already carried out by using the Online Driver Enquiry (ODE) service at the link here. You need to register to use the service and you need to enter your driver licence number and password to sign in.
- Course participants must make sure that their Driver CPC training covers a range of subjects. Drivers are no longer permitted to complete the same driver training module more than once in any five-year period.
- Attendees should not have completed this module within the last 5 years.
- Attendees must have acquired rights (see explanation in FAQ section below) or already hold a Driver Qualification Card (DQC).
By making this booking, you confirm that the above applies to the course participant(s).
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Event FAQs
What does “Acquired Rights” Mean?
If you have never held a Driver CPC and have acquired rights or your Driver CPC expired before 1 February 2020, you can carry out 35 hours of periodic CPC training to get your Driver CPC.
“Acquired rights” (or “grandfather rights”) will apply to you if you held a full vocational licence to drive buses, coaches and lorries on the Driver CPC start date.
However, if you have a licence issued before January 1997 which has a D1 (not for hire or reward [nfhr]), D (nfhr) or 079 code, it does not qualify as acquired rights. You also do not have any provisional entitlement.
You’ll have acquired rights if you are a:
- Lorry driver and got your vocational licence (C, C1, C+E and C1+E) before 10 September 2009 - Bus or coach driver and got your vocational licence (D, D1, D+E and D1+E) before 10 September 2008 - this includes a restricted vocational licence D (079/ nfhr) issued after 1991 and D1 (nfhr/ 079) issued before 1997 - You must not have already completed this compliance course within the last 12 months.