Freight traits

The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has published an updated version of its ‘Guide to managing drivers’, which provides advice to help operators manage drivers in a professional way.

Companies rely on their drivers to ensure a cost-effective road-freight operation, for example, by reducing fuel use, minimising vehicle wear and tear, and keeping maintenance, insurance and accident costs down.

The FTA guide covers a number of issues to get the best out of drivers, including recruitment, checking driving entitlement and carrying out inductions, through to managing drivers’ hours, ensuring daily walk-around checks are carried out properly, and dealing with driver infringements. It also looks at good practice when using agency drivers and provides sample forms and checklists to help managers in their day-to-day tasks.

The ‘Guide to managing drivers’ is available at £15 for FTA members, and £25 for non-members, with discounts for multiple copies. It can be ordered at www.shop.fta.co.uk/p-59-guide-to-managing-drivers.aspx or by calling 08717 111111, quoting code 4375.

Driving for Better Safety - Free eBook download

This eBook will guide you through some of the key understandings you need to be able to manage driver safety effectively and, at the end, provide a series of free resources you can access to help you ensure your own driver safety management system is robust, legally compliant and in line with industry-accepted good practice.

Download this eBook from Driving for Better Business and SHP to cover:

• Why do we need to manage driver safety?
• Duty of care – a shared responsibility;
• Setting the rules with a driving for work policy;
• Managing driver safety;
• Ensuring safe vehicles;
• Safe journeys and fitness to drive;
• Record keeping;
• Reporting;
• The business benefits of good practice;
• Additional resources

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