Section 4 – Index

4.1 A-Z Index of Contents

Index list of all content sorted in order, click a title to navigate to the section.

- A B C of first aid
- Abnormal loads
- Accidents at work
- Accident reporting requirements & documentation
- ADR
- Ancillary services
- Animals, carriage of
  - Training
  - Certificate of Competence
- Anti-lock brakes
- Anti-smuggling controls
- Articulated vehicle
  - Coupling
  - Uncoupling
- ATP – temperature controlled
- Avoiding injury
- Axle weights
- Benefits of fuel efficiency
- Brake fade
- Brakes, use of
- Braking efficiency
- Braking system
- Breaks after driving
- Bridge strike
- Cabotage and cross-trade
  - Evidence of
- Calculate position of a load
- Calibration of tachographs
- Carriage of animals
  - Certificate of Competence
  - Training
- Carriage of foodstuffs
- Carriage of waste
- Category 1 STGO
- Category 2 STGO
- Category 3 STGO
- Centrifugal force
- Chains and tensioners
- Clearing houses
- Clutch
- CMR
- Combined transport operations
- UK Licence for the Community
- Company image
- Containers
- Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH)
- Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)
- Corrosive substances warning sign
- Cruise control
- Curtain-sided vehicles
  - Load security for XL rated vehicles
- Daily driver checks
  - Graduated Fixed Penalty
  - Tyres
- Daily driving, maximum
- Dangerous goods
- Defensive driving
- Definition of ‘reportable accident’
- Delivery notes and Proof of Delivery (PODs)
- Digital tachograph cards
  - Lost or stolen
- Documents for drivers outside UK
- Documents for the goods outside UK
- Documents for the vehicle outside UK
  - VE103A
  - V5C (Vehicle Registration Document)
- Domestic drivers’ hours
- Double de-clutching
- Drinking & driving
- Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (DCPC)
- Driver licensing
- Driver vehicle first use checks
- Drivers’ hours (EU/AETR)
- Drugs & driving
- Economic environment of road haulage
- Economical rev band
- Eco-safe driving
- Emergencies (domestic drivers’ hours)
- Emergencies and exceptional circumstances (EU and AETR drivers’ hours)
- Emergency situations
- Employees duties under Health & Safety at Work Act
- EN 12642 XL rated vehicles
- Endurance braking
- Enforcement agencies, role of
- Enforcement forms
- Engine retarder
- Euro pallet
- European Accident Form (a)
- European Accident Form (b)
- European engine emission standards
- European Health Insurance Card (EHIC), UK EHIC and UK GHIC
- Exemptions from EU drivers' hours
  - Article 13 exemptions
- Ferries
- First aid, A B C of
- Fitment & use of tachograph equipment
- Flashing amber beacons
- Food & drink high in fat or sugar
- Foodstuffs, carriage of
  - ATP – temperature controlled
- Forward planning
- Fuel consumption – major factors
- Fuel efficient driving, the benefits
- Forces affecting vehicles in motion
  - Centrifugal force
  - Drag
  - Thrust
  - Weight
  - Wind
- Gears, use of
- Graduated Fixed Penalty (a)
- Graduated Fixed Penalty (b)
- Green card insurance certificate
- Gross weight
- Health & Safety at Work Act 1974
  - Employees duties under
  - Risk assessment
- Height, maximum
- Height marker
- High risk offenders
- HSE recommended maximum lift
- IBC (Intermediate Bulk Container)
- Immigration controls
  - HMRC guidance for drivers
- Intermodal operations
- International Driving Permit
- Jaupt (Joint Approvals Unit for Periodic Training)
- Kerbside weight
- Kinetic energy
- Length, vehicle, maximum in UK
- Letter of Attestation
- Lift axles
- Lifting Operations & Lifting Equipment Regulations (LOLER) (a)
- Lifting Operations & Lifting Equipment Regulations (LOLER) (b)
- Lifting Operations & Lifting Equipment Regulations (LOLER) (c)
- Loads and Loading
- Load restraints, types of
- Load stability
- Lost or stolen digital tachograph cards
- Low emission zones
  - Charges for entering
  - London Low Emission Zone (LEZ)
- Manual handling
  - HSE recommended maximum lift
- Market segmentation
- Maximum daily driving
- Maximum weekly driving
- Maximum weights in UK
- Maximum width in UK
- Maximum working periods
- Ministry plate
- Night work
- Operator licensing
- Overhanging loads
- Passport & visa controls
- Payload
- Penalties for unsafe load
- Periods of availability (POA)
- Permits
- PG9
- PG9B
- PG9D
- PG10
- PG35EC
- Phytosanitary certificate
- Plants & live animals
- Positioning a load on a vehicle
- Power take off (PTO)
- PPE (Personal Protective Equipment
- Preventing falls from the vehicle
  - 3-points of contact
- Preventing physical risks
  - Health & Safety at Work Act 1974
- Principles of healthy, balanced eating
  - The Eatwell Guide
  - Fluids and hydration
  - Foods high in fat, salt and sugars
- Projecting loads
- PUWER (Provision & Use of Work Equipment Regulations)
- Record keeping, domestic rules
  - Driver responsibilities
- Reduced, split or interrupted rest periods
- Reference periods (WTD)
- Regulations covering the carriage of goods
- Reportable accident – definition
  - Accident reporting requirements and documentation
- Restrictions on waiting parking & loading
- Retarders
- Rev counter
- RIDDOR (Reporting of Injuries, Diseases & Dangerous Occurrences Regs)
- Risk assessment
- Role of the enforcement agencies
- Ropes
- Safe system of vehicle control
- Seat belts
- Securing loads
- Separation distance
- Speed limiter
- Speed limits
- STGO (Special Types General Order)
- Speed limits
- Tachograph
  - Calibration
  - Equipment malfunction
- Tachographs - analogue
- Tachograph – digital
- TE160
- TE160DH
- TIR
  - Plates
- Tiredness
- Torque
- Toxic substances warning sign
- Traffic law
  - Restrictions on parking, waiting & loading
  - Speed limits
- Trailer registration
- Travelling height marker
- Twistlocks
- Types of load restraint
- Types of vehicle
- Tyres
- Unladen weight
- Unmarked bridge, height of
- Use of brakes
- Use of loading equipment
- UTC (Coordinated Universal Time)
- Vehicle checks to improve environmental friendliness of vehicle
- Vehicle cleansing and disinfecting
- Vehicle dimensions
  - Maximum height
  - Maximum width
- Vehicle maximum weights in UK
- Vehicle plates
  - Ministry plate
- Vehicle Registration Document (V5C)
- Vehicle types
- Vulnerable road users
- V5C (Vehicle Registration Document)
- VTG6 plate
- Waste, carriage of
- Weekly driving, maximum
- Weekly rest periods
- Wheelnuts
- Width, vehicle, maximum in UK
- Wind, effect on vehicles
- Working Time Directive
- Workforce and collective agreement exemptions

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