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that Bedfords has attended as a member of the Freight Operator Recognition Scheme (FORS).
This encourages operators to adopt best practice rather than simply comply with the law. You get high-level people, such as Philip Brown [the Senior Traffic Commissioner], stood in front of you," says Lockwood. "FORS has given us lots of advice, such as offering a CPC driver training pilot. We are using information like that to ease ourselves in slowly to the Driver CPC rather than spending tens of thousands of pounds when you might find that that's not necessary.
"The mistake I think a lot of people made with the Working Time Directive a couple of years ago was to overreact, When it came in and we understood the legislation, we found we did not have to do anything because we were working within the legislation anyway."
Lockwood adds that other good sources of information about new road transport legislation include the Road Haulage Association, the Freight Transport Association and the Association of Industrial Road Safety Officers.