500 YEARS YOUNG AND GOING STRONG
It was great to have a whole day with the team down in London last week to celebrate the 500th year anniversary of the Worshipful Company of Carmen (@Carmen_Company). A fantastic parade of transport through the ages from handcarts to the latest low entry, low emission high visibility trucks. Then a very nice lunch in the […]
CAN A PUBLIC INQUIRY PUT OTHER BUSINESS ACCREDITATIONS AND A MAJOR CLIENT AT RISK?
When an Operator finds themselves being called before the Traffic Commissioner to a Public Inquiry they are probably not loooking much further ahead than the Public Inquiry and how they are going to deal with it. However if you have accreditations such as ISO 9001 (2008 or 2015 versions), BAR accreditations to mention but a […]
HOW TO KEEP YOUR OPERATOR LICENCE AT A PUBLIC INQUIRY
How to keep your Operator Licence at a Public Inquiry or Why finger pointing and blame don’t work. So far in 2017 alone we have been to numerous Public Inquiries across the country. Some have been with companies in the passenger carrying sector and some in the freight carrying sector but all have one thing […]
WHY HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY BEFORE YOU GO TO A PUBLIC INQUIRY
When an Operator receives either a DVSA visit or calling in papers they are usually worried and that is normal. Now do you want to make this easy or hard? That is the question. Our aim is to take you through this process as smoothly as possible, to cause you as little embarrassment as possible […]
ISO 9001:2015 ACCREDITATION ACHIEVED
ISO 9001:2015 Accreditation achieved (view certificate) Today as a resut of consistent work in the background by all of the team, we are pleased to announce that AS Miles Consulting Ltd has been approved by ISO Quality Services Ltd to have a Quality Management System that meets the Standards and Guidelines of ISO 9001:2015 as […]
WHEN ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS
Have you been stopped by the DVSA? Have they asked you or your drivers questions and told you that they will be back in touch? Do you then do nothing and hope it will go away or do you not know what to do? Help is at hand. We have come across all of the […]
NEW TRANSPORT CONSULTANT JOINS THE TEAM
We are really pleased to announce that Chris Faulkner has joined AS Miles Consulting Ltd as a Transport Consultant. Chris has a fantastic background within the transport industry latterly having 15 years experience within a major British PLC within their Transport operation. After his induction phase Chris will be working along with the other consultants […]
PAPERWORK OLD AND OUT OF DATE? IT COULD CALL YOU TO A PUBLIC INQUIRY.
In a recent case that resulted in a Public Inquiry in Eastbourne we were asked to carry out an audit on the companies transport operation and then. as we always do, provide our recommendations to improve it. As the result of a very long day we produced our detailed report. Within that we found that […]
HOW TO HAVE A HAPPY PUBLIC INQUIRY!
One of our clients who only came to us when the Traffic Commissioner called them to a Public Inquiry and they had read an article that our MD had written in the Scaffolding Associations Magazine (also see https://asmilesconsulting.com/news/2017-08-08-access-all-area-and-you-still-need-to-do-it-right). They had some issues surrounding their application. So the Traffic Commissioner had decided to call them in for […]
PUBLIC INQUIRY? GETTING ADVICE & TAKING ACTION WILL HELP
At a recent Public Inquiry, an Operator who had fallen below the standards required for maintenance, drivers’ hours infringements and Drivers Daily Inspection had his authorisation reduced permanently by 3 vehicles. The operator had not correctly trained the drivers in the correct procedures for carrying out DDI’s, he had no system for analysing tachographs correctly […]