With strict legislation surrounding HGV drivers' hours, compliance is paramount to any haulage business.
In the UK, there is strict legislation surrounding the hours of driving a HGV such as lorries, buses and coaches. It is incredibly important to research the relevant laws for the type of vehicle that you are driving or instructing your employees to handle. The drivers’ hours requirements are in place for a reason and should be carefully followed to reduce compromising the safety of yourself and other road users. If you are a haulage employer, there are extra precautions that you need to take and additional legislations to follow under your operator licence.
As a transportation company, you must keep a clear record of your drivers’ hours which can be achieved with a tachograph. This useful device is fitted to the heavy goods vehicle and will automatically track that vehicles journey data such as distance and hours. Tachographs are specifically designed to monitor drivers’ hours and present a clear record to fulfil the complete compliance of your haulage business.
Tramaco, a transportation consultancy in the West Midlands, can ensure that your vehicles are properly equipped with these devices and analyse the tachograph data to ensure your business and its drivers are highly compliant with the laws. Feel confident in the operation and logistics of your business being fully compliant and present no risk of your operator licence being compromised or heavy fines.
Monitor the day-to-day HGV driving with tachograph analysis, a non-invasive way to check on your drivers and their performance.
At Tramaco, we can offer HGV training that is ideal for any of your new employees pursuing HGV driver careers or those who have plenty of experience but simply need to brush up on their knowledge to satisfy current legislation. Offering the correct HGV training courses to your employees can significantly reduce the chance of mistakes being made or unknown information that could result in hefty fines or losing your ‘O’ Licence. As a transport manager, you can feel at ease knowing that your employees are equipped with the relevant skills and knowledge to maintain excellent compliance across the board.
Our transportation consultants understand that as a transport manager or haulage business owner, your time can be quickly absorbed and leave certain areas exposed. We can take care of these aspects for you and conduct the relevant audits and transport services that are demanded as part of your operator licence.
Some things can slip through the net or go a miss when your time is demanded across various areas of your haulage business, but that will no longer be an issue with the support of Tramaco. Through tachograph analysis and industry audits, we can prove the compliance and standard of excellence required by DVSA or FORS accreditations.
If this sounds like something that could benefit your haulage business, contact our friendly transportation consultants at Tramaco and discover how we can help. Leave your drivers’ hours in trusted hands with regular checks and analysis for conformity to regulations.
Tramaco was born through first-hand experience of navigating operator compliance and the belief that although on the outside it appears extremely complex, with a good knowledge and understanding of the requirements any size haulage company can be compliant, safe and continue to grow.
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Experience is everything! At Tramaco we rely on our years of industry knowledge from drivers to company directors and everyone in-between. Tramaco can offer the best advise for operators of all sizes. Whether you’re looking for general consultancy or individual problem solving, you can be assured Tramaco has the experience to suite the job in hand.
“Don’t give me problems! Give me solutions” this is one of our favourite sayings at Tramaco, although our initial audits may throw up problematic areas within an operators organisation, our main aim to solve these problems and continue to monitor and avoid them reoccurring. We do this by tailoring a system to each individual organisation.
At Tramaco we pride ourselves on facts provided by experts and no matter how obscure the question or problem we have the knowledge and the know how, to solve it. Not only do we rely on our in house experts we also have a huge network of external expertise to rely on from barristers to trade union representatives, we know who to speak to.
“No one likes a know it all” not strictly true, we like to think we know most of it when it comes to the transport industry (or we know someone who does). But at the same time we are here to offer advice in a friendly and easy to work with way.
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Its very simple here at Tramaco if we say we are going to do something we get it done! On time and how it's meant to be. You can trust us to get your work done and to a high standard.