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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]