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Are You Doing Driver Licence Checks and Why Are They Important?
It is a legal requirement for companies to check the driving licences of their drivers, to ensure that they hold the correct licence to drive the vehicles they will be driving! This includes company cars, vans, lorries, buses and coaches. It also gives management the opportunity to monitor their drivers’ continued rights to drive their…
Read MoreGeneral Driver CPC Training…relating training to the operator licence undertakings
𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐏𝐂 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠…𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬
Read More𝐎𝐋𝐀𝐓 (𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠) F𝐎𝐑 𝐃𝐑𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒
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…
Read MoreMOT Certificates Replaced for FREE!
New changes with all the online services from the government sites means less expensive and easier for us. DVSA has launched a new free service to allow motorists to replace a lost, stolen or damaged MOT certificate. The service can be used to get MOT certificate copies for cars, vans and motorcycles. Copies for lorries,…
Read MoreOperators who show complacency towards licensing
There are no circumstances when a company should put their commercial interests above that of compliance or health and safety. Time and time again we hear from operators that say they cannot do things that are essential because they need vehicles on the road, customer expectations and so on. It is not until something happens…
Read MoreWhat is a Smart Tachograph?
What ia a Smart Tachograph? A question we have been asked about a number of times recently from drivers to operators to transport managers. From 25th June 2019 smart tachographs must be fitted to all new large Goods Vehicles sold in the UK. Tachographs are fitted to some six million trucks and buses throughout the EU.…
Read MoreDriver Banned Until 2020 by Traffic Commissioner
Another case has been published showing how the Traffic Commissioner is taking action against drivers that are abusive or aggressive towards DVSA staff to make a point that this will not be tolerated. We published a similar story last week and found another one to share with you where a driver had shown their volatile…
Read MoreOperator Licence Changes Online
We are Transport Managers in our core as that is where Total Compliance developed from. Today we have more companies that we are CPC Transport Managers for, and help companies get External Transport Managers, amongst many other things. Therefore the move into the digital age for Operator Licencing comes as a relief and overall great…
Read MoreTraffic commissioners take action on abusive drivers
The information coming from the Traffic Commissioner is now very much to show that they are not tolerating any aggressive or rude behaviour towards DVSA staff, which is totally understandable. No one should have to be subject to behaviour like this when they are doing their job. Below there is a case that has been…
Read MorePaperwork for UK hauliers driving to the EU…
With the increasing confusion over what is and what is not required, we thought a summary would be useful. Commercial drivers from the UK that operate in the EU will need new paperwork in addition to the documents already being carried. This has been stated if the UK leaves the EU without a deal, however,…
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