How you’d get this certificate
- Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer NOCN has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and NOCN awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from NOCN.
This qualification equips learners with essential knowledge and understanding of operator compliance, driver and vehicle management in a road transport undertaking, primarily for those stepping into management roles.
These are the units NOCN registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with NOCN. It does the teaching and the mapping. NOCN sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Understand Business Structure and Management in Road Transport Undertakings Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Know the different types of business-related insurance for a road transport undertaking
- Understand the management of human resources in a road transport undertaking
- Understand the statutory requirements of Data Protection
- Know about the role and function of industrial relations concerned with road transport
- Know the rules governing income tax and employers’ social security obligations
- Know the rules governing Value Added Tax (VAT)
Understand Carriage of Goods via Road Transport Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Implement procedures to comply with the rules of the carriage of perishable foodstuffs
- Implement procedures to comply with the rules on the transport of live animals
- Implement procedures to comply with the rules on the carriage of dangerous goods and waste
- Know the various techniques of ‘piggy-back’ and roll-on roll off combined transport
Understand Contractual Relationships within Road Transport Undertakings Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the main types of contract used in road transport operations
- Consider a claim by their principal regarding compensation for issues arising during transportation and understand how such a claim affects contractual liability
Understand Financial and Marketing Management in a Road Transport Undertaking Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Know the laws and practices regarding different means and methods of payment
- Understand the various forms of credit
- Read and interpret a profit and loss account
- Know what a balance sheet is and how to interpret it
- Assess the undertaking’s profitability and financial position
- Prepare a budget
- Know the cost elements of the undertaking and be able to calculate costs
- Understand the principles of marketing, publicity and public relations
Understand Operator Compliance for Road Transport Undertakings Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Know the occupational regulations governing road transport (Operator’s Licence)
- Understand the difference between sole trader, limited company and a public limited company
- Know the rules governing motor vehicle tax
- Know the statutory insurance requirements related to road transport
- Know the applications of electronic data transmission in road transport
- Know the rules governing certain road haulage vehicles, the tolls and infrastructure user charges
- Know the procedures to be followed in the event of an accident and how to prevent the recurrence of accidents or serious traffic offences
Understand the Management of Drivers Engaged in Road Transport Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Know the rules governing work contracts for different categories of worker employed by road transport undertakings
- Know the rules applicable to the initial qualification and continuous training of drivers
- Know the rules applicable to medical restrictions on road haulage drivers
- Know the rules applicable to driving time, rest periods and working time and the measures for applying those provisions
- Ensure that drivers comply with the traffic rules, prohibitions and restrictions in force
- Know the requirements for drivers to check their vehicles to ensure compliance with safety requirements
Understand the Management of Vehicles Engaged in Road Transport Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Know which vehicles and their components are required in accordance with the needs of the undertaking
- Know the requirement for periodic maintenance plans for vehicles and their equipment
- Understand the measures to take to reduce noise and combat air pollution by motor vehicle exhaust emissions
- Know the different types of cargo-handling, loading devices and procedures for loading and unloading goods safely
- Know the procedures required to properly secure goods
Understand the Regulations Relating to International Road Transport Undertakings Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Know the rules and obligations arising from the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR)
- Know the documents required for operating road transport services internationally
- Understand the rules of the organisation of the road haulage services market, as well as the rules on freight handling and logistics
- Know the border formalities, the role and scope of customs transit documents
- Know what qualifications are required for drivers
- Ensure that drivers comply with the traffic rules, prohibitions and restrictions in force
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
- Standard
Develop, communicate and implement a compliance policy for your freight transport operation to safeguard the operator’s licence
- Standard
Identify, promote and monitor internal compliance with the requirements of the operator's licence
- Standard
Transport goods and materials
The jobs these credits are mapped to
A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.
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Showing 6 roles, drawn from 9 job records mapped to this qualification. Near-identical records are folded together, and each row says how many it stands for.
Where this can lead
Transport Compliance Coordinator
This role can lead to work as a lead transport regulatory specialist, a transport regulatory affairs manager, or a director of transport compliance and safety.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by NOCN rather than by Zavmo. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Understand Business Structure and Management in Road Transport UndertakingsUnderstand Carriage of Goods via Road TransportUnderstand Contractual Relationships within Road Transport UndertakingsUnderstand Financial and Marketing Management in a Road Transport UndertakingUnderstand Operator Compliance for Road Transport UndertakingsUnderstand the Management of Drivers Engaged in Road TransportUnderstand the Management of Vehicles Engaged in Road TransportUnderstand the Regulations Relating to International Road Transport Undertakings
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
The Coach · your practice partner Illustration - Pitch it Evaluate
“Understand Financial and Marketing Management in a Road Transport Undertaking” gets practised as a pitch. You make the case out loud, Zavmo asks the question the room would ask, and you make it again.
- Lead it Apply
“Understand Business Structure and Management in Road Transport Undertakings” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
- Develop, communicate and implement a compliance policy for your freight transport operation to safeguard the operator’s licence
- Identify, promote and monitor internal compliance with the requirements of the operator's licence
- Transport goods and materials
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Understand Business Structure and Management in Road Transport Undertakings, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit aims to develop knowledge and understanding of the structure and management of a road transport undertaking, including regulations relating to the governance and operation of an undertaking, human resource requirements and industrial relations.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for NOCN Level 3 Vocationally Related Qualification in Transport Management
8 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by NOCN.
- Understand Business Structure and Management in Road Transport Undertakings
- Understand Carriage of Goods via Road Transport
- Understand Contractual Relationships within Road Transport Undertakings
- Understand Financial and Marketing Management in a Road Transport Undertaking
- Understand Operator Compliance for Road Transport Undertakings
- Understand the Management of Drivers Engaged in Road Transport
and 2 more in the full unit list below.
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