Audits & Reviews

Ensure your systems’ and processes’ legal compliance, safety and efficiency with Logistics UK’s independent audits and reviews. Join industry excellence schemes recognising, encouraging and promoting good practice within the sector.

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Audits and Reviews

We provide expert audit and review services to ensure your fleet operates efficiently and legally. 

Logistics UK's auditors have a rare breadth of experience drawn from an impressive range of organisations and sectors that they can bring to bear on the unique operational issues you might be facing.

Our auditors are very much ‘transport people’, having had deep immersion in a range of logistics organisations throughout their careers.  The team apply their knowledge and experience at a practical level, providing workable client-led solutions to tricky problems.

We understand that audits can be a significant commitment, at Logistics UK we also offer pre-audits and remote audits to save you time and hassle. Get in touch today to see how we can help.

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What are the benefits of having an Audit or Review?

Avoid fines and penalties

Comply fully with instructions from enforcement agencies such as the Office of the Traffic Commissioner or DVSA.

Improve business returns

Outperform your peer group through our sector benchmarking reviews.

Improve operational efficiency

Through services such as supply chain optimisation and routeing and scheduling.

Reduce risk

Increased compliance exposure through our audits and reviews; improved operational processes and training.

What Audits and Reviews do we provide?

Operator Licence Audit

Our Operator Licence Audit has been designed to review management systems and documentation to ensure legal compliance with the requirements of your operator licence undertakings with the intention of mitigating risk to your operator licence.

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Tachograph Systems and Driver Management Audit

The Tachograph Systems and Driver Management Audit has been aligned to the requirements of DVSA Earned Recognition audit standards. The audit consists of 13 sections covering driver management, data analysis and retention, working time systems and monitoring, infringement reporting and driver licence and DCPC monitoring. 

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Vehicle Maintenance Audit

Our comprehensive vehicle maintenance audit is mapped to DVSA Guide to Maintaining Roadworthiness and checks an operator’s systems and their responsibilities involved in maintaining vehicles in a roadworthy condition, regardless of operating conditions, fleet size or vehicle type.

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Public Inquiry Help / TC Referral

If you were subject to a DVSA audit or a Public Inquiry do you know what it might reveal? Through a Logistics UK Full Compliance Audit, our auditors will review all aspects that would be reviewed during a Traffic Commissioner Referral audit, and provide a comprehensive management review of your current performance and where you may be exposed 

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Engineering Investigations

Our team is regularly called to support members where an independent investigation is required into the cause or the effects of a vehicle engineering issues like an engineering related failure, the cause of a collision, fault finding and rectification, or perhaps an objective review of a member’s fleet to allow optimal planning and best whole life costs.

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Earned Recognition Audit

As an authorised Earned Recognition audit provider, Logistics UK can support an operator’s application by providing a full and comprehensive audit required to join the Earned Recognition scheme.

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Workplace Transport Safety Advice

To the untrained eye a busy yard can look chaotic, but to the experienced Logistics UK consultant the complexity of movements of people, trucks, goods etc can be re-organised to optimise both efficiency and safety.

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Fleet Operator Recognition Scheme (FORS) Audit

FORS recognises and encourages continuous improvement and best practice within the fleet sector.

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Why choose Logistics UK?

Unique position in the industry

We are the industry’s leading trade association with talent drawn from all corners of the sector.

Proven cost savings

We have a track record for reducing costs, improving profits and increasing efficiency.

Specialist staff

Our team of expert consultants have worked to a senior level in all areas of transport.

Unparalleled experience

We have extensive experience in developing industry legislation, benchmarking and research.

What our members say

Logistics UK's team has undertaken a number of projects for Elis over recent years. These have included Operator Licence “Healthcheck” Reviews at each of Elis’s UK and European sites as well as the most recent “Benchmarking Project”, that was undertaken to allow Elis to determine where improvements needed to be made to ensure compliance. Logistics UK's Consultants have all acted in a professional manner and have provided site personnel with advice and guidance on the areas that require attention. The work that Logistics UK Operational Consultancy has undertaken for us is of the highest standard and we will have no hesitation in using their services for other bespoke projects going forward.

Peter Kelly

Group Compliance and Fleet Manager

Excellence Schemes

Managed by Logistics UK, Van Excellence and Driver Agency Excellence schemes are voluntary initiatives open to van operators and driver agencies respectively. Their aim is to recognise, encourage and promote best practice within their sector. Each scheme requires an annual audit to be completed to ensure the scheme’s standards are in place and can be demonstrated.

Excellence schemes' benefits include:

  • Industry recognition of achieving high levels of quality and best practice.
  • Reduction of corporate and operational risk.
  • Annual independent audit process.
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Driver Agency Excellence

Driver Agency Excellence is a voluntary initiative which has been developed alongside operators and driver agencies. It aims to recognise, encourage and promote best practice within the sector.

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Truck Excellence

Truck Excellence is designed by the industry for the industry and provides operators with a peace of mind in the legal compliance of their truck fleet.

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Van Excellence

Centred around a set of best practice standards, this scheme aims to improve safety, efficiency and compliance and recognise excellence in van operations

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Interested in our Audits and Reviews service?

Download our Audits and Reviews Prospectus today. For more information please complete our online enquiry form
or alternatively call us on 03717 11 22 22*

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