VTCT Approved Low Carbon Instructor

SP Training’s three-day Low Carbon Instructor course enables you to cut your fuel use, reduce your environmental impact and help your customers reduce their Scope 3 emissions.

It also allows you to extend the range of your vehicles, reduce vehicle incidents, improve road safety and reduce driver fatigue while improving the skills and efficiency of your drivers.

Developed initially for large vehicles, the training is applicable for all types of fleet vehicles from 44-tonne HGV to fleet cars. The qualification is recognised as CPD for existing instructors.

Implementing low-carbon training can achieve fuel savings of over five per cent. The course is for existing instructors or assessors. The
VTCT Skills for Logistics – accredited course offers candidates the tools to train drivers in safe and fuel efficient driving methods applicable to all motive energy types including conventional fuel, hybrid, battery and hydrogen.

Course Content

• Licence, eyesight & vehicle checks
• Introduction to low carbon driving
• Formative assessment & summative assessment
• Marking assessments
• Practical driving techniques
• Commentary driving
• Instructional techniques
• Dealing with negative driver skills & behaviours
• Communicating safety performance & implementing improvements
• Low carbon driver underpinning knowledge

COURSE DURATION

3 days

DRIVER CPC

The Low Carbon Instructor course can count as 1 day towards a Driver CPC