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I've just conducted a private inquiry and the rogue OTC employee James Thomson (email: [email protected], tel: +442081429463) has been found guilty of multiple malicious bureaucratic perversions on the civil servant job. He has been indefinitely disqualified from being a caseworker and permanently lost his good repute. He has also been sentenced to 10 lashes with a whip on his naked buttocks. The Traffic Commissioner for the East of England where Thomson committed his multi-year malicious bureaucratic perversions is in charge of executing the sentence and firing Thomson from his job. See this post for more details about Thomson's malicious bureaucratic perversions on the civil servant job.

On 17/11/2023 rogue caseworker James Thomson ([email protected]) wrote the following to an applicant for an operator's licence (not to the one in the letters below):
If Tachomaster will be used, then provide the receipt of purchase?
This is a deceptively simple but good example of Thomson's perverted thinking and hateful attitude towards applicants and transport managers. If you multiply this type of question by dozens of times and then by several rounds that you will get from Thomson, it becomes untenable. Anyone can sign up for Tachomaster in a minute on this page: and Thomson surely knows it by now. Companies usually do that only after they get their licence because there's no point of having a Tachomaster account and paying for it or using up your free trial before the licence is issued, especially when you know that someone like Thomson gets off on terrorising applicants and delaying or derailing applications for no good reason. There's also no requirement in law or...

I know there are lots of debates on here but I wonder if anyone can answer this question for me, if a driver only drives no a school run Mon - Fri with no other work. Max 3 hours each day, they can go on UK Domestic Regs. They then get a private hire trip on the weekend so will switch to EU for that.
Can they go back to Domestic and drive their 1 hour school run in the morning?

Anyone got a link to, or a version of an excel maintenance planner they'd like to share please?

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One of my Client wants to add a trailer on 12t rigid vehicle (see photo) which would allow us to have a more flexible solution than an artic (can be run with or without the trailer depending on requirements).

Any advice what the procedure would be to add a trailer and modified a vehicle. Pros and cons please

 

 

Looking for some advice on telematics including remote tacho download. What are people using, what is it costing and any advice what’s good and bad. Possibility of linking truck cctv in with it too

Morning all, have a question regarding a WTD infringement.

One of my drivers has started a shift at 06:55 and finished at 15:55, taking all required breaks on time. However 15:53 to 01:00 they are showing Other work activity which carries on into the following day. When the driver has started his shift the next day they are seeing the warning accumulated working time limit of 6 hours exceeded.

I believe the driver has left the driver card in the VU overnight hence why there is the Other work activity between the end of his shift on day 1 and the start of the shift on day 2. Once a card is ejected there can be no further activity for that shift. The driver is insisting they did remove their card from the VU at the end of their shift on day 1.

So the question is that is it possible to record Other work activity if the driver card has been successfully ejected? The VU is calibrated and there has been no reoccurrence. My feeling is the problem was between the driver seat and steering...

hi all
a quick question regarding driver CPC training. I have a driver who has already completed his 35 hours up to Sept 2024. If I put him on one this year will it go to his next 35hr block or will it be invalid?
thanks

The freedom of information request below has also been submitted through this website:

TransportForum.com vs smaller transport industry outfits. Misleading recommendation on your website.

Dear Traffic Commissioners,

I'm the founder and president of The Transport Forum which is now the largest transport and logistics association in the UK by far. We have more members than all the other associations combined including the RHA and Logistics UK. Our membership figures can be easily verified using the links on this page:

Just one of our very active Facebook groups for transport managers with almost 18,000 members at this link: probably has more people in it than all the other associations combined, not to mention our website and other online resources with tens of thousands of members in total, all of which are available for free to anyone.

My request is regarding your Guide to instructing transport consultants on this page:

where you published the following:
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How to determine what traffic area a city or postcode belongs to

Go to the following link:

Enter your city or postcode in the search box and hit Search .
In the Edit search menu, set the Licence status to Valid and hit Update results .
Open each licence in the search results and find one with an Operating centre (not the Contact details ) at your city/postcode or very close to your city/postcode.
Look at the Traffic area line.

Traffic Areas in the UK

Great Britain is divided into 8 traffic areas. Each area has a Traffic Commissioner who’s responsible for issuing licences. Northern Ireland has a separate system.

Your operating licence needs to be valid for the area(s) in which your operating centre(s) are based. If you have operating centres in more than one traffic area, you will need a separate licence for each area.

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One of the main requirements for an operator's licence is having a parking space (a yard) for all your vehicles. This is called an operating centre on your licence. See this page for more details. Unless you already know someone who can offer you an operating centre, finding one is not easy. The only reliable way to find it is to visit in-person operating centres used by other companies listed here: one-by-one and attempt to negotiate with someone in charge. There are no published phone numbers and you won't find them on Google. Only in-person visits will do in most cases.

If you are looking for an operating centre, you probably want to start a transport business. The competition in the transport business is very high and the barrier to entry is very low. Anyone can start a haulage or passenger transport business. I suggest you start an estate agency for operating centres instead. There's not a single such agency in the UK and the demand is huge. Every operator struggles to find...

Hi i rencently got approved for a o licence paid the £401 been like 2 weeks now. Do i get a cert for the licence or anything?

Hi all,

On school runs within a 50km radius, do drivers need to use the tacho to record their work, or can we use only a work schedule to record their work hours?

Good morning,

A quick question as it is something I have never done. Obviously when increasing your vehicle authorisation on an operators licence you need to submit a newspaper advert, do you need to submit an advert as well if you are reducing the fleet size from 20 to 14? Also, would there be any fees from the TC when applying for that change?

Was ETM to company, after i had quit and informed relevant bodies, had call and interview from DVSA into previous company.
That was last September
My question is ,after how shouldn't consider that no further action is being taken against me ?

Hi,
I as far as I know I should give a reasons why the issue of an interim is being requested
Do I need to complete seperate form for an interim license? I have not seen to choose an interim on application online...

🚨 Need Advice on Contract Terms with R2C - Is This Fair? 🚨
Hey everyone,
I'm dealing with a situation that I find quite frustrating and I'd love to get your thoughts on it. I signed a contract with R2C back in November 2021, and the service went live in January 2022. The contract had a minimum term of 12 months, which I've completed.
Here's where it gets tricky: I recently contacted R2C to terminate the contract because I no longer need their services. They told me that I can only give notice from January 2024 and that the contract would only end in January 2025! 😡
The contract states:
Clause 11.2: If, during the Minimum term, the Customer wishes to terminate the contract they will need to provide written notice to Company no later than 12 months prior to the end of the Minimum Term... After the expiry of the Minimum Term, the Agreement shall continue on a rolling 12-month term (“the Renewal Term”), unless either party serves 12 months’ written notice of termination to other party to...

Hi there,
I was wondering if anyone uses an online application (like docusign) to sign driver's inridgements? We do them on paper, but I don't know how legal it would be to have them online.
Thank you! :D

I have CPC Road transport ( multi question and case study) for sale.

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I keep hearing that somebody has said(my mate reckons) that you can set your inspection interval to 12 weeks but do the inspections earlier I.e 8 weeks and the OTC wouldn’t have a problem with you doing that? Is that right? Don’t know if that’s right though if you could all send your thoughts