Gritter driver & winter service vehicle training (7hrs DCPC compliant)
Our gritter driver training serves as a comprehensive winter service vehicle course and DCPC winter maintenance course, delivering a full-day program that combines:
Winter service vehicle training modules
Skid avoidance winter exercises, including loss-of-control drills
Speed and spatial awareness workshops
On-road assessment
Each element is designed to complement your company’s safety rationale and provide a true understanding of real-life conditions that could lead to vehicle damage, serious injury, or worse.
WINTER MAINTENANCE CREW DCPC (GRITTER DRIVERS)
The course can also be made available for other specific large work vehicles, for example, refuse collection vehicles, skip transport etc.
Venue: Thruxton (Andover) skidpan and workshop suite
Vehicles: Client supplied gritters and one 3.5t work vehicle (options available)
Duration: 1 day. 18 drivers maximum per day
Qualification: 7hrs DCPC
Certificate of attendance
Personal assessment sheet with Low/Medium/High risk score
Some key points include:
- Plenary (1) Introduction / knowledge quiz
Low grip surface skid avoidance drive
- Plough removal/refit
- On-road in-vehicle
- The driver and the law (Static walkaround)
Safety & vehicle dynamics workshop
- Plenary (2) / Q&A
- Recap quiz
Feedback
Any driver whose workplace will be a gritter or particular type of vehicle being used for the training.
R³ do not teach skid control. R³ preach skid avoidance.
Using the skid activity on the low grip surface as a hook/very memorable activity we quickly and clearly show that any driver can get-it-wrong and lose control of any vehicle. From this position of clarity drivers engage much more with the safety messages and the advanced driving skills R³ teach throughout the rest of the course.
Driving is the most dangerous activity that most of us do almost every day
5 people die
and 66 seriously injured (average) every DAY on the UK roads
More drivers
are killed at work than deep sea fishermen