IAO
Level 3
QN: 610/0173/9
Curriculum Active
IAO Level 3 Certificate of Professional Competence for Transport Managers (Road Haulage)
Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by IAO. Classified as a Occupational Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 73 hours.
Qualification Level
Level 3
Awarding Body
IAO
Syllabus Units
8 Units
Guided Hours
73 hrs
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Course Syllabus & Study Modules
Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.
1
Access to market (Road Haulage)
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to apply for an Operator Licence
- Understand the rules for setting up a road transport operation
- Know the documentation required for transport operations
- Understand the requirements for road haulage services
- Understand the requirements for border crossings, including customs
2
Business and financial management of the undertaking (Road Haulage)
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Know the laws and practices regarding methods of payment
- Understand types of finance available to a transport organisation
- Be able to interpret balance sheets
- Be able to interpret a profit and loss account
- Be able to assess the undertaking’s profitability and financial position, considering financial ratios
- Be able to prepare a budget
- Be able to prepare costings for transport jobs
- Be able to create an organisation chart relating to an organisation’s personnel
- Understand the principles of marketing, publicity and promotion
- Understand types of insurance relating to road transport
- Understand applications of electronic data transmission in road transport
- Know the rules governing the invoicing of road haulage services and know the meaning and implications of Incoterms
3
Civil law (Road Haulage)
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the types of contract used in road transport
- Understand how to negotiate a legally valid transport contract, notably with regard to conditions of carriage
- Be able to assess a compensation claim and its impact on liability
- Understand the rules and obligations arising from the CMR Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road
4
Commercial law
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Know the types of commercial companies in transport operations and the rules governing their constitution and operation
- Understand the conditions and formalities laid down for plying the trade, the general obligations incumbent upon transport operators and the consequences of bankruptcy
5
Fiscal law
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the rules governing Value Added Tax (VAT) on transport services
- Understand the rules governing motor vehicle tax
- Understand the rules governing the taxes on road haulage vehicles
- Know the rules governing income tax
6
Road safety (Road Haulage)
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Know what qualifications are required for drivers
- Understand traffic rules and safety requirements for road transport operations in the UK and different member states
- Be able to produce instructions for drivers to check their compliance with the safety requirements
- Understand the actions to be taken following a road traffic accident
- Understand how to ensure goods are secured safely
7
Social law
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the role and function of organisations with oversight of road transport
- Know employers’ social security obligations
- Understand the rules governing work contracts for the categories of worker employed by road transport organisations
- Apply the rules relating to working time and drivers’ schedules
8
Technical standards and technical aspects of operation (Road Haulage)
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the rules concerning the weights and dimensions of vehicles in the member states and the procedures to be followed in the case of abnormal loads
- Be able to choose vehicles and their components to meet the needs of the operation
- Understand the procedures relating to type approval, registration and technical inspection of vehicles
- Understand what measures must be taken to reduce noise and combat air pollution by motor vehicle exhaust emissions
- Be able to draw up periodic maintenance plans for the vehicles and their equipment
- Produce procedures for loading and unloading goods
- Know services offered by third parties ancillary to the provision of road haulage
- Understand the rules on the carriage of dangerous goods and waste
- Understand the rules on the carriage of perishable foodstuffs
- Understand the rules on the transport of live animals
Regulatory & Verification Details
- Qualification Number (QN)
- 610/0173/9
- Regulated Status
- Available to learners
- Awarding Body
- IAO
- Qualification Type
- Occupational Qualification
- Operational Start
- May 2022