𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 – 𝐕𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐝

Loading Vehicles

The safe loading of vehicles is a fundamental requirement of both Traffic Commissioners requirements, as well as Road Traffic Law in general. Depending on which industry you are in, will determine what measures you will need to take to ensure compliance. From the days when Jonathan used to drive a fridge vehicle loaded with pallets,…

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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬’ 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐤𝐞𝐩𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 

This undertaking relates to the EU hours rules, the use of tachograph, domestics hours rules, written records and mixed driving rules, along with record keeping. The drivers hours rules are often an area whereby a driver thinks they know all the rules, however often attend a driver CPC course and we have some questions lined…

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𝐃𝐨 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐀𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧i𝐧𝐠? 

Truck Driver Training

WE KNOW DRIVER CPC IS HERE TO STAY!!! Is it going to change because we left the European Union? Definitely not. Our experience is that there are very few drivers who attend courses and did not benefit with them at all. Many drivers, sadly, whether they believe it or not, do not know everything about…

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𝐎𝐋𝐀𝐓 (𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠) F𝐎𝐑 𝐃𝐑𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒 

Driver Training

Our experience of Operator Licence awareness training for drivers is one of confusion! Drivers cannot understand what the benefit are to them, but our experience of the benefits is almost infinite. In 2020, we undertook a transport manager refresher course as a one day driver CPC course and early in the course our trainer posed…

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December Changes to Dangerous Goods Carriage – Are you ready? 

DGSA

Every 2 years we get new ADR Regulations.  The purpose of updating the regulations is to consolidate technical changes and recommendations from all Nations who participate in the ADR Agreement.  This ensures that the regulations keep up with the times as there are constant changes to product types, and hazards and risks that need to be taken…

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What are High Consequence Dangerous Goods?

Official definitions normally sound like this… High consequence dangerous goods are those which have the potential for misuse in a terrorist event and which may, as a result, produce serious consequences such as mass casualties, mass destruction or, particularly for Class 7, mass socio-economic disruption. Typically, from the work we have covered, this would include…

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What are the Categories of Dangerous Goods?

Dangerous Goods Categories and Signs

Do you know the categories of dangerous goods? Most people know a couple however, it is rare that people know all of them unless they work within a role that deals with the movement of dangerous goods. ADR splits dangerous goods into 9 different categories.  The categories are directly related to the products dangerous qualities.  It is…

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Here to help during the Coronavirus..

During these difficult times, referred to in various ways – Coronavirus, Covid-19, Pandemic, lockdown and so on – we are all going through the same thing however in different ways. It is like we are all in the same boat however sailing different routes! Therefore we wanted to reach out to people, particularly those in…

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