Carl Lomas met up with XPO Dean Locke as Kieran scored high in the basketball challenge game on the Premier Logistics stand. It was time to talk vans with the french folk turned American. Maritime had a central location in the show floor for containers and a pair of Scania tractor units to practice loading. IOC Tracey Worth joined the Williams brothers, Alex and Tom to see a container trailer backed into the loading bays, not quite real life, Maritime had a cool radio-controlled scale road set for practice, Tracey had the containers all safely delivered. DHL was prominent and close to Knights of Old, Simon Nelson was on hand to talk about the alignment of Nelson to Knights with Ian Beattie, these were real trucks parked side by side. Simon Nelson, with a Derbyshire HQ was part of the Two Way Street D2N2 IOE project for East Midlands transport strategy, quick photo ready for the govt strategy document launch next month. A-Safe had everything railed, Richard Elphee talked yellow barriers with Carl Lomas, Rachel North, Office Depot had driver training sorted with class one licence delivery for under a grand. DB Shenker showcased rail, Flexi and Briggs had fork trucks, UKWA boss Peter Ward was on hand to talk warehousing, Chris Sturman, FSDF chatted chilled distribution.
Multi Modal has gained a strong reputation for its client retailer connection to logistics, top brass were walking the isles for three days and some 900 folk were reported at the show dinner where Maritime were honoured with the haulier win.
Alex Williams, Maritime on tour with the Scania loading with Tracey Worth and Carl Lomas IOC.
XPO Dean Locke holds the basketball for the Premier Logistics Challenge with the Purple Squirrel
Simon Nelson with Carl Lomas for the D2N2 IOE Two-Way Street strategy launch documents with Derby University.
Richard Elphee WTG member A-Safe
