DRIVEN Join the European network of

professional road transport instructors

“Working towards European harmonisation of professional truck

driver periodic training”

Zagreb, 9 December 2011

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Seminar Agenda

• Introduction / Industry’s challenges and needs

• Promoting a positive image of the profession

• Ensuring availability of workforce

• Establishing the necessary professional development framework

• Current situation on EU directive 2003/59/EC implementation

• STARTS/IRU Academy – CIECA reports’ findings

• Focus on harmonisation of professional skills

• Converging towards complete mutual recognition

• Situation in Croatia

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• Aim of the EU project on harmonisation of instructor professional skill• Technical knowledge / subject matter expertise• Pedagogical skills• Training methodology• Trainers’ profile

• Train the Trainer to Periodic Training of truck drivers – Knowledge Transfer

• Transferring expertise across the EU• Harmonising training

• Instructor Community – Knowledge Sharing• Exchange of best practices• Thematic webinars

Seminar Agenda

State of Play

• Road Transport accounts for nearly 75% of all delivered goods in the EU

• Transport of passengers and goods by road will remain 100% dependent on the services of skilled and motivated drivers

• Commercial road transport undertakings around the world have suffered persistently from shortages of skilled drivers; most acutely during periods of economic growth and low unemployment

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• Driver shortages are only temporarily alleviated by the financial crisis and the recession that followed

• When economic recovery will become deeper and more widespread, increased transport demand will make efficient freight distribution and mobility services provided by collective passenger transport increasingly constrained and disrupted by driver shortages, across the world’s economies

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State of Play

The vulnerability of commercial road transport to driver shortages is due to systemic, long- term problems, such as:

• a shrinking pool of available skilled labour; increasingly complex technical and regulatory requirements

• sub-optimal working conditions; the often negative and biased campaigns against road transport by certain political forces and authorities damaging its image and, hence, recruitment

• insufficient public awareness of the possibilities and benefits of road transport employment; limited cross border employment mobility and a looming demographic imbalance stemming from a large section of the driver population

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State of Play

Time for Action

In order to avert an impending driver crisis in commercial road transport, which is not only a mode of transport but an essential production tool, concerted action must be taken by governments, industry associations and road transport enterprises to lay the foundations for a more skilled and sustainable road transport workforce and in particular its drivers.

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Source: IRU Resolution on driver shortages and strategies for better recruitment and retention

Driver Shortage

• Despite the business climate, there is a shortage of drivers in Europe. In Germany alone, the authorities speak about a 30% shortfall. In Switzerland they forecast a need for 25’000 new drivers within 10 years (for a total population of 70’000)

• In Belgium, 36% of the transport operators have difficulties in hiring drivers. Drivers are ranked #4 in the “most searched for workforce”

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Source: ASTAG & MANPOWER

Driver Shortage

• In the UK, It’s predicted there could be as much as a 30 percent shortfall in the number of qualified drivers of vehicles over 3.5 tons before 2014

• In France, due to an aging driver population, it is expected that 20% of the workforce will have to be replaced within 10 years – this represents 131’000 drivers

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Source: Andy Keane, UK Motor Portfolio Manager - Brit Insurance & Bulletin Transport et Logistique

Driver Shortage – a global concern

• U.S. trucking companies may face a 30 percent surge in wage bills by 2014 as rising demand for freight shipments threatens to push the industry’s driver shortage to the longest on record

• The current shortfall will double in a year to about 300,000 full-time positions, or 10 percent of the workforce

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Source: FTR Associates in Nashville, Indiana.

Acceleration factors

• The deadline for completing the required 35 hours of training is 2014/15 which may seem like a long way off but the reality is many haulage companies and drivers are simply leaving it too late

• On current industry estimates, there’s likely to be a rush for training towards the end of the compliance period and this will have major implications for business continuity

• In the UK, the current shortfall in the number of training hours completed by those required to undertake Driver CPC is likely to exceed 5 million training hours by the end of 2011 and it’s predicted there could be as much as a 30 percent shortfall in the number of qualified drivers of vehicles over 3.5 tons before 2014

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Driver Shortage – Consequences

• The impact on economies could be devastating with a downturn in productivity coupled with loss of sales for many millions of businesses that depend on road haulage

• Operators are still reeling from the escalation in diesel and petrol costs but the underlying implications for the haulage industry through non-compliance with Driver CPC is potentially far more serious

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Challenges & opportunities

• Need to respond to the EU transport and energy policy:EU White Paper

• Road freight transport:• 24% increase from 2000 to 2008• Concern of CO2 emissions • Road Safety a key focus

• Safer, greener, smarter• Change driver behaviour• More energy efficient – technological changes• Innovative road safety technologies (ITS)

Source: Keep Europe moving: a transport policy for sustainable mobility / June 2006, EU energy and transport in Figures – 2010

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European Professional Driver Qualification Framework

• To address the above mentioned challenges, the EU implemented Directive 2003/59/EC:• CPC Driver compulsory for professional drivers

throughout Europe• Initial Qualification and Periodic Training (35 hours

training every five years)

• Focus on: • Advanced Training in Rational Driving based on Safety

Regulations• Applications of Regulations• Health, Road and Environmental Safety, Services and

Logistics

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CPC Driver in the EU: Implementation Status

EU Directive 2003/59/EC