Her process is patently ridiculous. Period. She should be working to find/correct the "cause" of the "huge" tlogs. But if they get large for a given reason that is valid then they should be left at that size (preferably made that size in a controlled manner, to set VLFs appropriately).

Binoogle Kimberly Tripp transaction log to find several posts about optimizing tlog throughput and managing VLFs.