Check your driver CPC training hours

Check the progress of your driver CPC training

Official DVSA website that enables a driver to check their driver CPC periodic training hours.

Free at the point of use, as a DVSA upload fee of £1.25 for each hour of driver CPC training, has been paid for each course that was attended.

£1.25 per hour for a seven hour international driver CPC training course is an upload fee of £8.75

A driver must register to use this service, registration only being possible after an approved training centre has recorded the driver having attended their first driver CPC training course.

Registration is easy, you'll need your driving licence number and your home postcode, unfortunately the passport you then require to access the system is not sent in a few short minutes via email, it is sent by post, so will take several days to arrive.

Once you've received your password (which can be changed during first log in) you can log into your personal account and check the progress of your training during your current training window and the historic record of your training in previous training windows.

Find out when your next DQC will be issued

You can also check when your next DQC will be issued if you've completed your training more than one year before your expiry date, create a temporary password you pass to your employer to enable them to check your training record, or 'opt out' of (UK) National Driver CPC Periodic Training.

National Driver CPC

The (UK) national driver CPC qualification requires a driver to attend the same 35 hours of approved training that international CPC does, however, instead of attending five courses, each of seven hours duration, a driver attends ten courses of three and a half hours duration.

The National Driver Qualification Card (DQC) that is issued only permits the driver to operate within the UK, they cannot do any international work, including the Republic of Ireland.

The 'opt out' is essential for a driver requiring an international CPC, who perhaps inadvertently attends a 3½ hour national CPC training course. When the 3½ hours DVSA accreditation for that attendance is added to the official database, that driver has now by default set themselves up to qualify for, and in due course be issued with, a national DQC. Opting out of national CPC prevents this occurring.