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What is a company car?
Company cars can offer businesses and employees substantial savings on transport costs for essential car users
Company car policies
How to draw up a company car policy for your business including an approved car list and a downloadable template.
Finding and choosing a freight forwarder
How to conduct effective research when drawing up a shortlist to compare what different freight forwarders are offering.
The costs of using a freight forwarder
Costs depend on mode of transport as well as on the weight or volume of your goods and the distance they have to travel.
Passports, visas, Driver CPC and licence requirements
The types of travel documents you'll need for road journeys from the UK that cross international borders.
Driver documents required for international road haulage
Documentation for international road haulage drivers to help you keep to schedule and ensure prompt delivery of goods.
Insurance and medical documents for drivers
Drivers of goods vehicles must be aware of the need to safeguard their own and their employers' best interests.
How to use freight forwarding
How freight forwarders can take care of much of the work involved in transporting your goods internationally.
Advantages and disadvantages of using a freight transporter
Balance the expertise and time you have against the convenience and savings a freight forwarder may offer.
Freight forwarders and customs agents and brokers
The role of freight forwarders, customs agents and brokers for customs clearance and transporting goods.
Freight forwarding services
Forwarders deal with many transport and trade issues such as import and export documentation and customs clearance.
Understand your competitors
How to identify your competitors, find out more about them and then use this information to improve your business.
Safe transport of goods and materials
Transport choices, costs, risks and legal obligations of transporting hazardous goods, animals, food and waste.
What you need to know about your competitors
Examine how your competitors do business, what they offer and how they treat their customers.
Hazards and risks when transporting dangerous goods
Risks of transporting hazardous substances by road and rail; classification; rules on sea and air transport.
Minimise the risks of transporting goods
Key risks when transporting materials - from damage to goods to theft and fire - and ways of minimising them.
Learn about customers’ needs from competitors
How learning about a customer's current supplier can help you, if you identify why the customer buys from a rival supplier you can work out how to better them.
Understand your customers' needs
Why understanding your customers' needs is crucial to the success of your business, no matter how good your offering is, customers must want it.
Rules for transporting non-hazardous goods
Your key duties if your business transports food, animals and waste, and where to go for more information.
Transporting dangerous goods by road or rail
Legal requirements on transporting hazardous substances - packaging, labelling, safety equipment and advisers.