About Me

Profile

Over 8 years experience in the road haulage sector.
A confident, highly collaborative, task focused manager.
A responsible professional with substantial experience in executing legal compliance programs.
Able to manipulate data, and study business practices to gauge weaknesses.
People development professional able to coach, support and educate employees to raise standards and apply best practices.
Experienced in developing compliance programs.
Possesses good judgement and diligence.
Solid track record of creating and overseeing action plans to meet compliance requirements.

ACHIEVEMENTS

Reduced wages costs by looking at staffing structure, recruiting, and developing full time employees and reducing use of agency drivers.
Introduced full drivers induction and safe systems of work, reducing costs of maintenance and breakdowns on vehicles due to education of drivers.
Increased OCR score from Amber to Green due to implementation of tight maintenance planning of vehicles and creating good working relationship and education between departments to ensure company was fully compliant at all times.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Fleet Compliance Manager – Synergix Logistics Ltd

Manage and review Compliance systems to ensure that they are effective.
Address any shortcomings such as prohibitions and/or annual test failures.
Ensure that relevant changes are notified to the TC in accordance with operator license requirements.
Keep up to date on relevant changes in standards and legislations.
Negotiated workshop clinic with maintenance provider resulting in all minor defects being repaired and vehicles 100% roadworthy each morning and keeping repair costs to a minimum.
Slashed drivers’ infringements from 54% to 9% per week through development and re training.
Reduced missing mileages from over 8000km per week to zero by introducing pre and debrief policy.
Improved relations between compliance and planning departments by introducing planning schedules for vehicle maintenance, reducing downtime of vehicles and continuing customer service.

Transport Manager – Bluestone Transport

Family run business.
Responsible for all Accounting procedures
Weekly payroll
Transport Manager/CPC Holder
Performed administration duties, including record management, client correspondence and taking bookings.
Coordinated transport department holidays, sickness leave and other HR related activities.
Identified areas for improvement in transport operations and sought opportunities for improvement.