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  • Dumfries Retouched
    Published June 2019

    1,500th FORS Practitioner qualifies as success of training programme continues

    FORS member Linda Lutton from Dumfries Freight in Northern Ireland has become the 1,500th FORS Practitioner. The first FORS Practitioner qualification was awarded in Apri…

  • Pr Sud
    Published June 2019

    FORS announces funded training for drivers

    FORS  is offering funded places on a selection of its driver specific training courses, to help FORS members upskill their driving workforce. The free-of-charge training…

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    Published May 2019

    First Choice Minibus Services gets on board with FORS

    FORS, the Fleet Operator Recognition Scheme, is delighted to welcome First Choice Minibus Services onto its Governance and Standards Advisory Group (GSAG). The appointment will allow…

  • Mentoring Pic
    Published May 2019

    Release of funded driver training courses

    FORS is pleased to announce that additional funded places on training courses for drivers have been released across the UK. Places are available on FORS Professional Safe Urban Driving (SUD)…

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    Published April 2019

    FORS Ask The Expert: Counter Terrorism In Road Transport

    At a time when the threat level from international terrorism in the UK has been set at ‘severe’, commercial vehicle operators are being offered additional guidance to help ensure they ar…

  • FORS Standard Spring 2019 Issue Page 04 Image 0010
    Published April 2019

    Study reveals mobile phone abuse

    More than half of van drivers admitted to making calls behind the wheel without using a hands-free device, according to research by Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. Van drivers spend an av…