All Episodes
BACK on Air by Backhouse Jones — 96 episodes
Cyber special
Management structure, employment, and rising fuel pressures
Human factors behind driver behaviour: Why mistakes happen on the road
Load security, DVSA interactions and Middle East disruption
Mediation, driver defect reporting and managing difficult conversations
Start the Year of the Horse strong – Planning your future, Employment Rights Act changes and regulatory triggers
From data to decisions: Tachographs, in focus
Employment Rights Changes, PMIs and Avoiding Transport Disputes
Convictions, TC appeals, people management and commercial considerations
Final BACK on Air of 2025
Drug & alcohol risks: Preparing for the festive season
Tachograph compliance, Transport Manager skills and the new EU Entry/Exit System
Halloween special – Tackling spooky issues in maintenance, public inquiries & employment
Alternative fuels, net zero and an autumn audit
Interviews under caution, Uninsured Loss Recovery (ULR), PSV Conduct of Passenger and Driver Regulations training
Tachograph masterclass
We're BACK! Autumn kick-off
Summer Ready? Live Q&A
Summer hot topics: Key compliance areas unpacked
Recruit right, manage well — The operator’s guide
Your questions answered
Driving diabetes awareness: What the transport sector needs to know
Breaking news and key developments affecting your operations
A haul-istic look at fleet insurance
Navigating the changes to the new Guide to Maintaining Roadworthiness
Behind the Border Report: Discretion, fines, and operator risk
Navigating driver-operator relationships and employment law changes
Risk management: Enhancing road safety and workforce well-being
Safety, compliance and systems: Benefits and challenges
Wheel of compliance fortune
Exposing cargo crime
Virtual mock public inquiry
What to expect from 2025 and a recap of 2024
Drugs and drink driving special 3
Vehicles as a dangerous weapon
Guide to Maintaining Roadworthiness changes
Guide to Maintaining Roadworthiness, brake testing, managing fitters and drivers and the Autumn Budget
Annual report, clandestine entrants & employment law changes
BACK in the hot seat! We answer your questions
Spotlight on PI - 6 key triggers and influencing the outcome
Data-led fleet maintenance and making maintenance a commercial win
Looking after your image - Using other people's logos; what to do if your business name is being used by someone else; how a poor accountant can make you look bad and impact your O-Licence and business; guarding your reputation; clandestine entrants
DVSA special - earned recognition, digital enforcement, mobile inspection unit, light vans, EVs
Serious accidents - With Guest speaker Rik Wenham, Inspector at the Commercial Vehicle Unit at the Metropolitan Police
Holiday special - Agency, self-employed drivers, key HR holiday rule changes, border chaos and how to handle
Driver special - Your drivers are your greatest asset and liability
Turn BACK time? Tachograph special
Mind the orange parts! EV special
Who let the dogs out? Dogs on buses, fitters, driver CPC, daily digital defects, Accessible Information
BACK to the future! Autonomous vehicles, selling a business or company and periods of grace
Prosecutions are BACK - Prosecutions, overloading, complaints against drivers & propose to revoke letters
Spring Statement, uninsured loss recoveries, clandestine entrants and much more
The aftermath of an accident
Smooth ride? - O-Licence applications and variations, workplace transport and segregation of vehicles and pedestrians and truck cartel update
Self employed drivers – the TC view; the impact of accidents on employees; M&As - trend update 2023 and forecast for 2024
Lessons of 2023, what to expect in 2024 and self-employed drivers
Licence issues, penalty points, holiday pay and sexual harassment
Legal loop holes, latest update regarding LST & Flexible Bus Services
Drugs and alcohol special - Part 2
Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success: Why use a transport consultant; when you shouldn't; working to best practice; avoiding a PI; at PI & afterwards; enforcement action; and credibility
Spotlight on maintenance: Audit standards; maintenance paperwork; external maintenance providers; maintenance agreements; in-house staff
Communications, difficult conversations and your O-Licence
Moving from paper to digital, Clandestine entrants update and Mitigating fines
Smooth sailing or troubled waters? Purchasing vehicles guide, "fit for purpose", MOTs, PMIs, post employment disputes and holiday entitlement
Getting into deep water - Public Inquiries, Judicial Review, HGV Levy and self-employed drivers
The next trip might not end on a high - Drugs and alcohol special, HGV levy, driver shortage, agency and self employed drivers
At the roadside - being stopped, powers used, maintenance, driver conduct and criminal offences
The unexpected happens in the blink of an eye - Turning a blind eye; what’s in a title? Accidents at work and corporate manslaughter
Managing operational and organisational change - Difficult conversations for TMs, Board conflict, driver well-being and looking after the leaders
Sailing close to the wind - Avoiding hefty penalties with terms of business, when the CMR applies, maintenance problems, DVSA’s Guide to Maintaining Roadworthiness, DVSA desk-based assessment and taking on the state.
Hydrogen special - Is hydrogen the new diesel?
Spring-clean your finances? Spring Statement, the industry's reaction, load security and Senior Traffic Commissioner Guidance.
Prosecutions and your O-licence - Notices of prosecution, fixed penalty notices, totting up, hardship/exceptional hardship, drink-driving, statutory declarations, impact on O-licence
Wild horses? - Handling minor infringements, drugs and alcohol testing, transport consultants and authorised fleet size v actual vehicles
Don't get left out in the cold! Self employed drivers, maintenance issues, ESG procurement policies
What to expect when the unexpected happens - the aftermath of an accident; bridge strikes; and clandestine entrants
No pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? Clean Air Zones, vehicle upgrade grants, driver conduct and bus reliability and punctuality
What to expect from 2023 - Financial standing, tacho rules, bus reliability and punctuality, driver shortage and contract management
Can you put a price on safety? Autumn Statement, maintenance, cutting corners, balancing your business budget and keeping staff happy
Is November a hazard? Accidents; Police interviews under caution; the maintenance link; other H & S issues
All change! Changes to the mini-budget review, banter at work, regulatory changes
Tired of people weaselling out of agreements? - Managing difficult commercial relationships, what’s happening in the acquisition world and what's on the TC's radar
Transport Manager special - The increased power of the TC over the role of the TM; recent legislative changes and the mini-budget
Wheel security and tyre management special - wheel loss, wheel security and tyre management systems.
Spotlight on PI- Tacho rules enforcement update, what the TC is looking at and becoming compliant, how to prepare for a PI and appointing a new TM.
The information highway - Written Police requests for driver identity, DVSA requests to produce tacho and drivers’ hours information, O-licence applications and what to do if you come across a fuel escalator clause.
Change is on the horizon - Updated sentences for driving offences; the end of paper O-Licence applications; Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain Annual report; mobile phone use and fatalities.
Spotlight on PIs - transport manager transparency, paper applications, load security and corporate manslaughter
Your employees' health and your business - Diabetes risk management for businesses, notification requirements, well-being culture at work, repercussions
Tired of juggling? Tacho issues, financial penalties in contracts, cartel update and paper reel rules
Avoid a one-way ticket to a Public Inquiry! Recurring PI themes, best practice, the gig economy, Highway Code changes and whistleblowing
The OTC trap: Periods of grace; financial standing; other key areas which operators fall foul of
What did you expect? TC expectations on 3rd party trailers, the impact of Highway Code changes and vans and HGVs into Europe
Lost down a rabbit hole? The DVSA's enforcement of tacho rules, dos and don'ts for maintenance and mobile phones
Is Spring in the AIR? Spring Statement, compliance v commerciality and TMs communicating with the board
It’s showtime! The O-Licence and the driver, PSVAR and heavy vehicle testing