Publisher's Synopsis
This is a must have TM manual for 2025. This Operational Guidance for both Haulage and Bus (PSV) has been produced to overview the TM in Haulage & PSV. This manual can also be used as a Home Study Guide & reference manual for the Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) & Transport Manager refresher. It covers the most significant change in its expansion regarding the goods operator licensing regime to include vehicles used for hire and reward that weigh more than 2.5 tonnes and up to 3.5 tonnes (including when used in combination with a trailer). This manual is not a legal work of reference; it is a manual for the normal operational haulage & PSV purposes, the chapters include:
- Being a road transport manager
- Marketing strategy
- Market Research
- Business organisational structure
- Business insurance
- UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR)
- Operators Licence
- DVSA
- Who needs a goods vehicle operator's licence
- Transport goods in Europe in vans or car and trailers
- Speed Limits UK & EU
- Types of licence
- Transport perishable food (ATP)
- EU Community Licence
- Cabotage and cross-trade
- Vignette & Eurovignette
- How to Apply for Operators licences
- Operating centres rules
- Public inquiries
- Refusal of applications
- Using your disc correctly
- Disqualified from holding an operator's licence
- Transport Managers rules
- Unladen weight
- HGV maximum weights
- Overloading issues
- Maintaining your vehicles
- Using a maintenance provider
- New vehicle operators rules
- MOT for a Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGV)
- Heavy vehicle brake test: best practice
- TIR test for quicker border crossings
- Individual guarantee to cover customs debts
- Common Transit Convention
- Dangerous goods vehicles inspection
- Notifiable alterations (VTG10)
- Load securing: vehicle operator guidance
- Consequences of poor load securing
- Enforcement
- Types of vehicles
- Types of loads
- Load securing solutions
- Code of Practice
- EU Driving Hours
- Mixed EU/AETR and Great Britain domestic driving
- Common Offences
- Driving licence codes
- Large vehicles you can drive using your car, bus or lorry licence.
- Driver CPC training for qualified drivers
- Dangerous goods (ADR) vehicle driver
- Dangerous goods safety adviser (DGSA)
- Operator Compliance Risk Score (OCRS)
- Animal welfare
- Employment status and employment rights
- Redundancy
- Criminal and Civil law
- Haulage & distribution
- Incoterms
- Set up your own limited company
- Liquidation and insolvency
- Waste carrier, broker or dealer
- Set up a business partnership
- Direct Vision Standard (DVS)
- Environmental performance
- Reducing your vehicle emissions
- Health & Safety
This Transport Manager Operators manual & Operational Guidance has been produced to give a general overview and to point managers/operators and other interested parties in the direction of more comprehensive guidance as required; it is therefore not a legal document.
In May 2022, there were changes to the UK operator licensing regime. The most significant change is an expansion in the goods operator licensing regime to include vehicles used for hire and reward that weigh more than 2.5 tonnes and up to 3.5 tonnes (including when used in combination with a trailer) which apply from May 2022.
