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We taught the law
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Over the past six weeks CM, with the support of ATS Euromaster, has staged a series of nationwide free legal seminars. For readers who were unable to attend, here's a summary...
There's always been tension in the industry between getting the job done profitably and complying with the huge mass of road transport legislation, which seems to lie in wait to trip you up at every opportunity. It's the key role of any professional transport manager to ensure they tread this line, satisfying the needs of the business while ensuring the vehicles stay fully within the law.
The Traffic Commissioner as the regulatory authority in the sector is responsible for the latter, of course, and Deputy Traffic Commissioner Richard McFarlane at the Scottish seminar,the first in our series, reminded delegates of their obligations under the 0licensing system. Every person applying for an 0-licence signs up to a series of undertakings, he said: "The object of this is to ensure that vehicles operated by haulage and bus operators are at all times being used on our public roads in the best of condition, are not overloaded and are operated within the speed limits. They also strive to ensure that the drivers arc in good shape and the likelihood of drivers driving while tired is reduced if not eliminated.
"It is clear when I go over these undertakings with the licence holder at public inquiry that the undertakings have either not been read, not been understood, simply forgotten about or ignored — or in the worst case scenario, blatantly disregarded."
Similar themes
All the Traffic Commissioners at the seminars — four of the five events had'FCs in attendance — echoed a similar theme, and it became apparent that the regulators, and to some extent Vosa, are looking for the management side of transport to up its game considerably. Clearly there are companies already ahead of the field in this respect, but industry-wide there is a need for
David Pink, managing director at Dodd's Group
Pink says the operator currently conducts sixmonthly licence checks on drivers and he was interested to hear that perhaps this should be changed to three months. However he says he is still unclear about the driver CPC card and exactly when drivers will need the card and the training