Updated, updated VOSA update

Thank you Josh

Here are a few areas that you can look at.

A high level of Tachograph infringements as shown on the Tachomaster reports.

These levels remained constant throughout the year. No corrective action/re-training taken. It was more important for Supervisors to be on road delivering than for drivers to be compliant.

UPS’s answer in Dewsbury was to destroy the infringement letters. If VOSA had followed up promptly, this would have been seen, or rather not seen, as the infringement letters wouldn’t have been found.

It would have taken 1 day for these infringement letters to be brought up to date, other than drivers absent. No time was given to either Supervisor to deal with these issues. It was more important to be on road delivering.

No time was allocated to either supervisor to complete the drivers’ annual training, again being on road training.

There are false declarations of drivers’ hours.

There is the ignorance of drivers working through their dinner/tacho breaks. The UPS answer was that drivers chose to do this. Why wasn’t action taken to stop this?

I was given a Tachograph project when working my notice. Why was I only off road for 6 days out of 44 to complete this? A plan for me to fail? I did complete a set of procedures, but was not allowed to roll it out through the Company.

Having spoken to a number of UPS drivers from Dewsbury, Leeds and Manchester in the last year, it would appear that these practices are still continuing.

There are copies of many documents on my blog, and these are isolated cases. I have many more here at home

http://mikeyvtheworld.blogspot.co.uk/

Regards

Mike

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From: Josh.Geldard@vosa.gov.uk [mailto:Josh.Geldard@vosa.gov.uk]
Sent: 22 November 2012 15:02
To: mikewhitehead1@aol.com
Subject: RE: UPS Infringements

Thank you for your email,

I will now forward this on to who I think can help you.

Sorry for the delay in this I will try and get this sorted now.

Regards

Josh