When choosing a freight forwarder to work with your company, it is always wise to check whether a prospective partner is a member of the Freight Transport Association (FTA). As one of the largest trade associations in the UK, the FTA represents the transport interests of 14,000 members and works to ensure the safest, most efficient and sustainable logistics operations throughout the supply chain.
The FTA regularly communicates current and future changes in logistics legislation to their members. This is not just in relation to UK law, but across Europe and beyond. Clearly, non-FTA members are in danger of being non-compliant and that risk is often passed on to their customers and their freight.
FTA members are committing to ‘best practice’ standards. The “well driven” scheme has been highly successful in showing that participants take their driving standards seriously. More importantly, the scheme has helped reduce accidents and lower insurance costs, to the benefit of all road users.
Furthermore in order to reduce operational and legal risk, FTA members are able to access the FTA’s Driver Licence Checking Service. If applicable this empowers FTA members to quickly perform licence checks for all their drivers against current records, which are continually and automatically re-checked.
Morrison Freight is proud to be a member of the FTA. We use their specialist professional knowledge and advice to ensure our customers receive the best possible service.
About Morrison Freight:Morrison Freight is a road transport / road haulage operator, offering a door to door European coverage network. We assist our clients import & export Freight Forwarding services throughout 24 countries, 24 hours a day, every day of the year. We move in excess of 1,000 trailers between UK and mainland Europe every month and guarantee uninterrupted, optimal driver accompanied transit times. Our clients operate across a wide variety of industries. These include automotive, electronics, consumer goods, pharmaceutical, defence, agricultural road haulage & construction plant machinery and more.
