{"id":66645117,"date":"2021-11-16T14:21:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T14:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fors-online.org.uk\/cms\/?p=66645117"},"modified":"2021-11-16T14:21:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T14:21:32","slug":"ashvale-haulage-ltd-the-future-remains-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fors-online.org.uk\/cms\/2021\/11\/ashvale-haulage-ltd-the-future-remains-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashvale Haulage Ltd \u2013 The future remains Gold."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Ashvale Haulage Ltd is based in Hertfordshire and specialises in Muck Away, Aggregate Deliveries and various other activities across London and the South East. The office is run by a dedicated team of professional personnel who support the transport team.<\/p>\n

Richard Callanan, Director, explains how Ashvale Haulage Ltd has achieved significant improvements through FORS (including reductions in fuel use \/ reduced CO2\u00a0emissions, lowered NOx and Particulate Matter emissions, improved its road safety record, decreased transport related fines and charges etc.)’<\/p>\n

We were asked to consider FORS in 2015\u00a0along with our sister company M O\u2019Brien Plant\u00a0Hire Ltd. After seeing more and more companies proudly displaying their accreditation we\u00a0 decided in 2016 to go for Bronze. We quickly continued our journey to Silver and Gold in\u00a0 2018.<\/p>\n

The Bronze Audit was a lot more in depth than we expected, but we had invested a lot of\u00a0 staff house ensuring that we followed every inch of the FORS standard. I would point out\u00a0 that the Bronze Audit should be respected and planned for to ensure a pass is achieved.<\/p>\n

Once we were Bronze accredited and had fully implemented the compliance, policies and\u00a0 procedures it was a natural step to progress onto Silver. This helped the company to focus\u00a0 more on the safe and efficient running of the fleet. Also this helped us when the time came to\u00a0 register for Direct Vision Standard. All of vehicles were already running at the approved\u00a0 standard. The next step was achieving and maintaining Gold.<\/p>\n

After gaining our initial Bronze accreditation we made use of the Driver training that FORS provided, in particular the Safe Urban Driving and Cycle Safety. The drivers commented on\u00a0 how much more aware it made them during their daily tasks. More recent use of the FORS\u00a0 training has allowed our transport managers to become FORS practitioners. This has proved\u00a0 a major benefit to the company in regards to policies and procedures. The e learning\u00a0 classroom courses for the drivers has assisted in monitoring the fuel efficiency of vehicles.<\/p>\n

Richard Callanan, Director \u201cBeing FORS Gold has provided a selling point when promoting\u00a0 our business\u201d\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

Jack Dowd, Transport Manager \u201cWe have fitted our vehicles with state of the art technology <\/em>to ensure they are safer, with vulnerable road users in mind\u201d\u00a0 <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We straight away spotted the benefits of using the tools within FORS to monitor and\u00a0 maintain fleet data, we then invested heavily in telematics and now have access to the\u00a0 FORS tool kits and or own data allowing us to develop fleet efficiency in the right direction.<\/p>\n

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