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Changes to OCRS system get industry thumbs up

27th January 2011
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roger.brown@rbi.co.uk CHANGES TO THE OCRS system, which will mean hauliers are judged on the seriousness of any prohibition they pick up, have been welcomed by industry trade associations.

From this spring, the OCRS scoring will relect the tiered prohibition levels used within the graduated ixed penalties system.

James Firth, Freight Transport Association head of road freight enforcement, believes the new system will be a “step forward for enforcement”, with OCRS providing a more robust indication of an operator’s compliance risk. “Although VOSA sees OCRS as a targeting tool rather than a penalty in itself, operators whose vehicles get pulled over as a result of high scores would disagree,” he says.

“In helping to graduate between a lagrant abuse of the system that could relect a systematic failure on the operator’s part, rather than an isolated minor driver infringement, it will help build a more accurate and fair system.” Ray Engley, head of technical services at the Road Haulage Association, believes the changes will highlight the serious offenders who should be targeted.

“This is a fair way of doing it as it will ensure that VOSA concentrates its resources on the real offenders rather than the occasional wrongdoer,” he says.

“The person who commits the occasional lapse will not be hounded as much.” VOSA says discussions about the introduction of the changes are ongoing and the organisation expects to be able to inalise dates for their introduction shortly.

A spokesman for the agency says: “The introduction of the graduated element of ixed penalties into OCRS will better deine more serious levels of offending, which will be relected in an operator’s OCRS.”


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