Our audit service aims to identify safety, legal and compliance issues in your transport operations, giving you a full view of areas for improvement and areas of risk. Our audits include a review of all drivers’ records and tachographs, vehicle maintenance checks, compliance with the Operator’s Licence conditions and is followed up with a full report and our recommendations.

All audits are undertaken by an ISO Lead Auditor assuring you of pragmatic auditing.

Smaller in-depth reports focusing on one particular area are also available to assist with any recent failings or performance management plans for current staff.

We provide both DVSA Earned Recognition audits and Traffic Commissioner mandated compliance audits

Our first step is to attend the correspondence address of the Operator Licence and carry out a full audit on topics including compliance and management controls, management of drivers’ hours, records and training, vehicle maintenance and inspection, procedures in the event of a road traffic collision, arrangements for hiring short term vehicles, health and safety, environmental and operation systems and criminal offences.

We will visit all of your operating centres to conduct further audits. This will help us establish any further improvements needed to either your main correspondence address or your other centres.

Once the first two steps have been completed, we will produce an in-depth report of our audit findings.

The final stage is for us to provide detailed recommendations to allow you to implement necessary changes

At Hurst Transport Services, we have experience in assisting operators to make significant improvements ahead of a Public Inquiry hearing that has led to more favourable action from the Traffic Commissioner.

We can provide 'before' and 'after' audit reports for the Traffic Commissioner to demonstrate improvements that have been made ahead of the hearing.

If you have received a Public Inquiry hearing letter or have an impending DVSA visit/Assessment, it is important that you act immediately.

At a Public Inquiry there is a considerable possibility of punishment against the operator including revocation of the Operator Licence.

The best chance of avoiding punishment is to address the shortcomings and failings of your compliance ahead of the hearing.

Our first step is to carry out a full intense audit of the operation to determine the current compliance status and create a plan to rectify any shortcomings or failings.

The next stage will be for Hurst Transport Services to assist you with all of the required improvements of processes that we have identified in Step 1.

The next stage will be for Hurst Transport Services to assist you with all of the required improvements of processes that we have identified in Step 1.

At Hurst Transport Services, we have experience in assisting operators to make significant improvements ahead of a Public Inquiry hearing that has led to more favourable action from the Traffic Commissioner.

We can provide 'before' and 'after' audit reports for the Traffic Commissioner to demonstrate improvements that have been made ahead of the hearing.

Hurst Transport Services can assist both prospective and existing operators obtain or make variations to an Operator Licence (or multiple licences).

The cost - in terms of finance, time and resources - of applying for or varying an ‘O’ Licence need not be significant.

Hurst Transport Services can provide professional support to applicants to help get things right first time.

The initial stage of the operator license applications service is to establish you exact needs. This will vary depending on whether you are applying for an amendment to an existing application, or applying for the first time.

Once your needs have been established, we will help you complete the online application process.

Once your online application has been completed, we will help you source a Transport Manager (if required). We will also arrange for your advertisement in the correct publication, as well as collecting the publication on the day of publishing.

The final step is for us to gather any evidence that may be required (finance, landlord permissions, etc), send all requested documents to Traffic Commissioner - and if needed - we are always available for advice throughout the process.

We have proven experience at completing initial applications and variations.

The cost of the advertisement is often more than the application so mistakes are costly.

The application process can be time consuming and lead to periods of downtime whilst waiting for the application to be decided, if not completed correctly.

Obtaining accreditations can be a stressful process.

We can assist with FORS initial and reapproval applications, for all FORS accreditation levels.

We have proven experience at assisting operators to achieve FORS at every level.

The cost of a failed accreditation audit, including time and resource will be higher than using our services.