RECENT CASE – PUBLIC INQUIRY: COMPANY LET DOWN BY ‘REMOTE TRANSPORT MANAGER’
With only around two weeks before a recent Public Inquiry, A S Miles Consulting were engaged by a Midlands based company to assist them, as they had reached a point of despair and lack of action with their current transport manager. On attending the clients Operating Centre we found no systems of any worth being […]
WHEN DOING NOTHING IS SIMPLY FATAL
A S Miles Consulting recently had a call to provide consultancy support to a client with a Public Inquiry which immediately caused us some concerns. Once our Managing Director started to work with the client and their legal team it became apparent that the client had originally had a poor DVSA visit some 18 months […]
WOULD YOU LET YOUR TRANSPORT MANAGER DO YOUR VAT RETURN?
If not, then Why not? The answer is probably along the lines of “He’s not qualified to do accountancy, or she has no previous experience of doing VAT returns”. And all of those would probably be true. So why do people let their Accountant give them advice on Operator Licence Compliance? Have you ever asked […]
THE USED OR RENTAL TRUCKS THAT COULD COST YOU YOUR O LICENCE AND REPUTE
There is a Ticking Time Bomb in the used Truck Market and no one seems to want to do anything to inspire confidence back into the market. I am talking about Adblu traps, Diversions, emulators, software and any other such ’emissions cheat devices’ that have been fitted to trucks by previous owners that are then […]
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 […]
OCRS – A LACK OF TEAM WORK INCREASES THE CHANCES OF BEING STOPPED BY THE DVSA AND POLICE
An operator who sent his fleet of 11 LGV’s in for their schedules PMI on time and filed the paperwork when the vehicles returned from PMI and MOT was shocked when we checked his OCRS score to find out that he was in the red. This Red OCRS score will greatly increase the chances of […]