Transport Compliance Training

Transport compliance training courses

Fulfilling your O Licence undertakings and complying with transport legislation is essential to safeguard and protect your O Licence. Regular transportation compliance training is the best way to ensure that you know how to apply best practice and comply with transport legislation.

The route to Earned Recognition

Transport compliance training is also invaluable for operators seeking to achieve membership of the DVSA Earned Recognition scheme, which requires strict adherence to best practice and meticulous record keeping. In order to maintain Earned Recognition status, it is crucial that every member of the team understands and applies best practice at all times, so regular expert training is a wise investment in both time and resources.

Operator Licence Awareness Training (OLAT)

The directors, owners or partners in a transport business are not commonly holders of the Transport Manager CPC qualification, but they are also responsible for ensuring that the O Licence or Restricted O Licence undertakings are fulfilled. Despite not having an official qualification, they should have the basic knowledge of how to fulfil these undertakings and comply with transport legislation. Ideally, every director, owner or partner should attend the form of transport compliance legislation called Operator Licence Awareness Training (or OLAT). They should attend an OLAT course at least every five years in order to keep up with evolving transport legislation and best practice.

Transport Manager CPC Refresher training

Transport Management CPC holders are also strongly advised to attend a Transport Manager CPC Refresher Course every couple of years in order to stay current with the law and compliant with transport regulations. Transport Managers should plan to ensure that they attend a refresher course at least every five years to keep abreast of changes in legislation and transport industry best practice. This is an essential part of transportation compliance training which helps you to maintain a healthy Operator Compliance Risk Score (OCRS).

Digital Tachograph Course for Managers & Supervisors

In order to maintain a healthy OCRS, it is essential that transport companies understand and use equipment such as digital tachographs. Attendance at an appropriate transportation compliance training course focused on correct tachograph usage is strongly recommended. Rules on record keeping and best practice do change occasionally, so it is advisable for key managerial staff to attend a Digital Tachograph Course for Managers & Supervisors to ensure that the entire team can be briefed in the correct use of the digital tachograph. This form of transport compliance training provides knowledge which can be passed on by managers to drivers. Novadata also provides a Driver CPC Drivers Hours Law & Tachographs course as part of its Driver CPC training offering.

Drivers’ Hours training

As with all transport legislation, the rules on Drivers’ Hours and the Working Time Directive do change from time to time. If you haven’t updated your knowledge for several years, you may be unaware of changes to Drivers’ Hours, especially with regard to acceptable forms of record-keeping. A Drivers Hours Law Training course provides all the information that you need to ensure that you know how to be compliant in this essential area of best practice.

Novadata also offers courses in driver management, transport administration and remote tachograph downloading.