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FORS Silver Noise Pollution
FORS Silver and the noise pollution section known as S7, seems to confuse people and a regular question we get asked is about the ‘noise impact assessment’. Companies have been paying out for machines to measure sound that need to be calibrated. It is fine to do this if you are going to make use…
Read MoreFORS Passes First Time
With the ever increasing demand for help, we have an ever increasing number of operators passing first time on their FORS audit and becoming FORS Bronze accredited. We have been working with lots of operators from all types of industries that have passed in the last few weeks and all, first time. Even if you…
Read MoreHaving the paperwork is great but ensuring it is happening is more important!
Do you have lots of policies and procedures in place for your transport operations? These documents are great and show that you are working hard to get things in place for your operator licence in general, or for a voluntary accreditation like FORS or DVSA Earned Recognition. We know it is tempting to buy a…
Read MoreHow many Driver CPC Hours do you have to do before September?
Do you keep hearing about driver CPC like we do? As 9th September 2019 is the deadline for most, drivers and companies keep talking about because they need to get the hours completed. We know that they have to be done to keep drivers on the road, and yet why do they get left until…
Read MoreDo we mean Health when we say Health & Safety?
We attended a Women in Logistics event last week about driver health which was based around a 6 year research study. The content was very interesting and certainly got us thinking about how the health of commercial drivers could be improved. The event was held at Loughborough University and it was with Dr Veronica Verela…
Read MoreTraffic Commissioner Refuses Operator Licence
The Traffic Commission sees a large variety of applications for new licences, adjustments to current licences, as well as seeing people face to face at public inquiry. The Traffic Commissioner wants to see honesty and understand situations however sometime applicants or existing operators do not give this and it can cause more issues for them.…
Read MoreFORS Help…
All the things we hear about FORS (Fleet Operator Recognition Scheme) can make it all seem so complicated, stressful and expensive unnecessarily, and actually it is not. Now we have the new version 5 out and there seems to be a number of changes that have to be done so operators/members comply. It is important…
Read MoreThe start of the 2019…
January done and the start of the year has been fantastic! We have been really busy and still been fitting in a visit to the FTA Council and also doing some more up-skilling to become better trainer. We added Lucy to the team and we have another person starting with us next month. We had…
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