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CPC Road Passenger Exam study plan

CPC Road Passenger Exam · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 6 hours per week

Week 1

Civil and commercial law relevant to road passenger transport & Road transport business management and financial administration

  • Define the core contract, liability and consumer-protection concepts that govern passenger carriage and explain them in your own words

  • Distinguish the legal duties a carrier owes to passengers versus third parties in three written scenarios

  • Outline the cost structure of a passenger transport business, separating fixed and variable costs

  • Compute fare, break-even load factor and margin for two worked examples

  • Draft a one-page summary mapping which legal concept applies to which business decision

Your checkpoint

A two-page reference sheet with a legal-concepts glossary and a worked break-even calculation, self-tested against five practice questions.

Week 2

Road transport business management and financial administration & Civil and commercial law relevant to road passenger transport

  • Build a simple profit-and-loss and cash-flow template for a small passenger operator

  • Calculate driver wage costs including overtime, holiday accrual and social contributions

  • Identify which records a transport business must retain and for how long under commercial and labour rules

  • Apply contract-formation rules to a sample carriage agreement and flag unfair terms

  • Reconcile a sample month of revenue and expenses to a closing cash balance

Your checkpoint

A completed spreadsheet model of one operating month plus a written list of compliance records and retention periods.

Week 3

Social legislation and labour rules for drivers & Road transport business management and financial administration

  • Summarise statutory limits on driving time, daily and weekly rest, and breaks for passenger drivers

  • Explain how tachograph or equivalent recording obligations work in principle and what constitutes a violation

  • Compute a compliant weekly roster for a driver from a set of trip demands

  • Describe the employer's duties on working time, night work and health surveillance

  • Link labour-rule breaches to their financial and licensing consequences for the operator

Your checkpoint

A one-week compliant driver roster with a written justification showing every rest and break rule satisfied.

Week 4

Technical standards and operation of road passenger vehicles & Road safety, accident prevention and traffic regulations

  • Describe the safety-critical systems of a passenger vehicle: brakes, steering, tyres and lighting, and their inspection points

  • List pre-departure and periodic vehicle checks and explain the consequence of each failure

  • Explain load distribution, centre of gravity and their effect on stability in a passenger vehicle

  • Interpret the priority rules and speed limits that most often appear in passenger-transport incidents

  • Classify five accident scenarios by primary cause and the regulation breached

Your checkpoint

A pre-departure checklist and a 20-question self-quiz on vehicle systems and traffic rules, scored with notes on every miss.

Week 5

Road safety, accident prevention and traffic regulations & Passenger safety, accessibility and customer service

  • Analyse accident causation using a structured model (human, vehicle, environment) on three case descriptions

  • Explain defensive-driving principles and apply them to following distance, overtaking and junction decisions

  • Describe accessibility obligations for passengers with reduced mobility, including boarding assistance and space allocation

  • Draft a customer-service script for handling a complaint about a delay or a denied boarding

  • Explain how to secure passengers and luggage and manage behaviour that threatens safety

Your checkpoint

A written incident analysis of one scenario plus a customer-service and accessibility protocol one-pager.

Week 6

Passenger safety, accessibility and customer service & Health, safety and emergency procedures

  • Produce an emergency action sequence for fire, collision, medical emergency and evacuation

  • Explain the driver's duties after an accident: securing the scene, first aid, reporting and preserving evidence

  • Describe first-aid priorities and when to move an injured passenger

  • Identify personal protective and fire-suppression equipment carried on a passenger vehicle and how to use it

  • Explain how to communicate with emergency services and account for all passengers

Your checkpoint

A laminated-style emergency procedure card covering four scenarios, plus a timed walkthrough of one evacuation drill.

Week 7

Environmental protection, energy efficiency and sustainable operations & Health, safety and emergency procedures

  • Explain the main emissions and their health effects relevant to road transport

  • Describe eco-driving techniques and estimate their fuel-saving effect on a sample route

  • Compare energy sources and drivetrains for passenger fleets on cost and emissions

  • Outline waste, fluid and noise management obligations for an operator

  • Link occupational health risks (fatigue, noise, vibration, stress) to preventive measures

Your checkpoint

An eco-driving and environmental management plan for one route with quantified fuel and emissions estimates.

Week 8

Civil and commercial law relevant to road passenger transport & Social legislation and labour rules for drivers & Road transport business management and financial administration & Technical standards and operation of road passenger vehicles & Road safety, accident prevention and traffic regulations & Passenger safety, accessibility and customer service & Environmental protection, energy efficiency and sustainable operations & Health, safety and emergency procedures

  • Complete two full-length timed mock exams under exam conditions

  • Score each mock by domain and rank your three weakest domains

  • Re-study only the weakest domains using your own notes and reference sheets

  • Recite the key figures (rest limits, speed limits, retention periods) from memory without notes

  • Write a final one-page cheat sheet condensing each domain to its five most testable facts

Your checkpoint

Two scored mock exams with a domain-by-domain error log and a final one-page cheat sheet.

Milestones

Week 2: Can compute break-even load factor and explain three carrier legal duties without notes.

Week 4: Scores at least 75% on the vehicle-systems and traffic-rules self-quiz and produces a compliant weekly roster.

Week 6: Can recite the emergency sequence for fire and collision and complete the evacuation walkthrough in under target time.

Week 8: Scores at least 80% on both mock exams with no domain below 65%.