In Traffic Commissioners’ eyes, Transport Managers represent the professional side of operator licensing, serving to enhance the industry’s image. That’s quite a responsibility heaped onto their shoulders, which is why it is absolutely vital you employ someone you know is professionally competent.

A glance at the last annual report from the TCs reveals that their role continues to exercise the minds of the Commissioners.
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Anyone with just a passing interest in the HGV or PCV industries will know that one of the major concerns at the moment, other than eking out a living, is the process by which lorries and coaches are tested.

The government decided recently that the tests must be “taken to the customer”, meaning that the majority no longer have to be carried out at Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA) premises but can be done at private sites instead.
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Back in June we highlighted the controversial conclusion of a report requested by the former Secretary of State for Transport into drink driving laws. Sir Peter North recommended that the current prescribed blood alcohol limit of 80mg of alcohol per 100ml be reduced to 50mg.

He said there was evidence “that the public mood is supportive of the current limit being reduced” and that potentially hundreds of lives could be saved.

 He also said lowering the limit to this degree would not affect the driver who decides to have a drink to accompany their pub meal, or have a glass of wine or a pint of beer and then be concerned that they were in danger of breaking the law.

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