This course will enable all participants to update their knowledge using a combination of practical problem solving and compliance-based scenarios. Courses are run for Road Haulage Transport Operations. This course is the perfect way to improve your continued professional development or update your skill set if you gained your qualification several years ago.

This course is ideal for senior managers and traffic office staff in Road Haulage, it covers a wide variety of topics including transport law, the OCRS system, powers of enforcement officers and the consequences of non-compliance.

This course is ideal for senior managers and traffic office staff in Road Haulage, it covers a wide variety of topics including transport law, the OCRS system, powers of enforcement officers and the consequences of non-compliance.

Don't forget to refresh. If you hold Transport Manager CPC qualification In Road Haulage but need a refresher, this is the perfect way to bring you up to speed on any developments in compliance.

If you are actively using your Transport Manager CPC qualification named on an Operator’s Licence, it is essential to keep your knowledge up to date. 

 Attending our 2-day Transport Manager CPC Refresher Course within 5 years of gaining your initial qualification or since your last refresher will evidence your Continued Professional Development, which is specifically referred to in the Statutory Guidance issued by the Senior Traffic Commissioner.  The DVSA also now consider this when assessing an operator’s compliance. 

 All Directors and senior managers are expected to exercise effective oversight of compliance with their Operator’s Licence undertakings – regardless of whether the operation of large vehicles is your main business activity or an ancillary part of your business.

This new session looks at the effective management of drivers’ hours, tachograph and operational compliance for all in a business which has transport at the heart of it.  Our training will reinforce the tachograph enforcement rules which were introduced in 2020 and enforced since January 2022 and which are probably the biggest change to the tachograph record keeping requirements in the past 40 years.  In addition, in the absence of any guidance, Backhouse Jones have developed their own suggested six-point-plan for operational management best practice which will be shared during the Session

According to Network Rail, each day there are 5 bridge strikes involving large goods or passenger vehicles across the UK. Did you know if it is your vehicle involved in a bridge strike, you will be called to a hearing before the Traffic Commissioner and you will face regulatory action against your Operator’s Licence. The driver of the vehicle involved will also be called to a hearing and risks the revocation of their vocational entitlement and disqualification for 6 months. .

So, what are operators and transport managers required to do to prevent bridge strikes?

Join us to discover what bridge strikes mean in practice for you, your drivers and your compliance management systems, and the implications of getting it wrong.

The training will cover:

The national picture (according to Network Rail)

Why do bridge strikes happen?

Consequences of a bridge strike

Bridge strikes and the Traffic Commissioners

What to do in the event of a bridge strike

How to prevent bridge strikes

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This course will enable all participants to update their knowledge using a combination of practical problem solving and compliance-based scenarios. Courses are run for Road Haulage Transport Operations. This course is the perfect way to improve your continued professional development or update your skill set if you gained your qualification several years ago.