A host of Institute of Couriers fellows were at the table to talk congestion, clean air and next generation workforce.
New IOC Vice President, John Hayes raced from a late vote in the commons to be at the table with the IOC.
New fellows included Clipper boss Tony Mannix and new services to industry winner Kate Lester, Diamond Logistics. Sam Clarke spoke clean air final mile as chair of the electric vehicle group. Colonel Andy Moffatt was on hand as boss of British forces post office to announce hosting the panel of judges for the 2018 National Courier Awards. Three months and two peaks into 2018 fellows talked numbers and client choice in the delivery chain of express, fresh from Mother's Day Sunday deliveries.
Sec of State for Transport spoke passionately about the transport sector, smiling and opening with ‘I am a little bit of a transport geek.’ He spoke historic transport milestones in the UK, ‘First jet engine, Jaguar, Mini and Land Rover. Canals transformed transport in our country and I am an avid rail user’. Moving to future ‘Driverless cars will transform lives and we will seem them in the next four years, motoring will never be the same again.’
John Ratcliffe took the lifetime achievement award, famous for the tail-lifts we see on almost every truck today.
new IOC Vice President John Hayes CBE MP talks diversity in transport with IOC CEO Prof. Tracey Worth
Clipper logistics boss, Tony Mannix talks military logistics with head of BFPO, Colonel Andy Moffatt
