Green Fleet awards for IOC fellows – medium and large fleet wins

Institute of Couriers fellows were centre stage at this weeks Green Fleet awards for both medium and large fleet.

Graham Thomas Ocado took the large fleet win.

IOC chair of electric vehicle group, Sam Clarke Gnewt Menzies took fleet win for medium size fleet

My closing shout is we should put our full weight for the sector workforce to represent the population.

TfL boss, IOC hon fellow, Mike Brown stands down as STAT chair as he is set to leave his role as Commissioner in May next year after 30 years with TfL.

Greater Manchester Highway Works on the Key Route Network from 15/11/2019

Customer Experience & Loyalty Award goes to DPD UK at the 2019 National Business Awards.

DPD UK has been honoured at the 2019 National Business Awards, winning the Customer Experience & Loyalty Award.

Astronaut Tim Peake was the keynote speaker at the November ceremony in front of 1,200 business leaders, investors and representatives from Government and the press, at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London's Park Lane.

Your next generation have a stairway to manager

Three years. No student loan – it's paid by levy

Three years in the making, DfE Institute for Apprenticeships have approved the level six standard at degree level for Express Delivery Manager.

A three-year course, no student loan, on-the-job learning with a degree in Express management, paid for by levy apprenticeship funding while the candidate earns a living in the express workplace.

Your next generation have a stairway to manager

Three years. No student loan – it's paid by levy

Three years in the making, DfE Institute for Apprenticeships have approved the level six standard at degree level for Express Delivery Manager.

A three-year course, no student loan, on-the-job learning with a degree in Express management, paid for by levy apprenticeship funding while the candidate earns a living in the express workplace.

Greater Manchester Highway Works on the Key Route Network from 08/11/2019

Launch of EAV P1 cargo bike.

DPD UK has taken delivery of the first 10 EAV P1 Electric assist cargo bikes - the result of a partnership with Oxford-based manufacturer EAV.

IOC fellow, Dwain McDonald, DPD UK's CEO commented,

The P1 is an absolutely amazing vehicle and we are immensely proud to be technical partners alongside EAV on this unique project. This is an entirely new type of vehicle and is designed specifically to meet the current challenges for delivery firms in the urban environment.

Five of the unique bio-mechanical hybrid electric-assisted pedal bikes are currently being tested on the streets of London, York and Newbury, while the other five are being shipped to DPD UK business units in Ireland, Spain, Germany, Portugal and France to help support British manufacturing and exporting abroad.

Framing the key issues, Leeds needs to be bold.

Clean air Cargo cycle solution for final mile

Where can we park them?

Leeds City Council voted to pass a motion declaring a climate emergency in March 2019 and committed to become carbon neutral by 2030.

IOC were in the Northern Powerhouse ‘Join the Big Leeds climate conversation’ Leeds, ‘ready to be ambitious and bold for clean air final mile, a city already holding a reputation for delivering home based charging for their council electric vehicle drivers.’