Visit the High Street or get home delivery?
Visit the supermarket or get your food shop delivered?
Are we about to see the biggest peak of final mile?
Amongst the unknowns of SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus impact, the stay at home stance, aligned with the ongoing shift from high street retail to home delivery, looks set to peak final mile exponentially.
The new Express manager Degree contains dynamic risk and external impact - one thing for sure, top level thesis titles for the next generation managers look set to lead on the impact of the virus on final mile.
DHL CEO Frank Appel, ‘It’s currently hard to judge how strong the impact of the Coronavirus will be’
A practical reality update from Alan Lewis, IOC keynote speaker, his Constantine Law summary on sick pay implications self-isolated or GP note is below.
The government is consulting on the introduction of E10 – a lower carbon fuel – at filling stations across the UK.
Focused on petrol, drivers across the UK could soon be filling up their cars with a greener, lower emission fuel, DfT announced today (Wed 4th March).
London red turning green for Royal Mail
Mount Pleasant Mercedes eVito & Peugeot Partner vans
Royal Mail turning London green with almost a hundred zero emission vans as it introduces 87 new EVs to one of its largest mail centres in London at Mount Pleasant Mail Centre.
Chocolate and flowers, add a broad spectrum of gifts for final mile
Final mile food perfection – Using the whole licence weight to minimise vans on the road
BD Auto van maximum use of weight to licence fit at 4.25t
Valentine's Peak One 2020 delivered with storm resilience in a final mile success for the sector.
‘The journey has been simply phenomenal’
‘Founding sustainable clean air logistics in London.’
Sam Clarke, expert electric vehicle guru, IOC chair of electric vehicle group and founder of Gnewt is set for a Spring move.
‘One last mile. I can now announce officially, that earlier this year I tendered my resignation from Gnewt and shall be leaving in the Spring.’
· DPD and MAN agree deal for the UK's first 100 eTGE electric vans;
· DPD will have the largest 3.5t electric van fleet in the UK;
· Deal follows 300 Nissan electric vans announced in January.
BEIS have issued a new Business Readiness Bulletin which contains the latest information about the 11-month transition period which began on Feb 01 2020.
One hundred and twenty thousand vans in the room at the IOC Heads of Industry Round Table Feb 4th
Sir John Hayes CBE, MP opened the IOC heads of Industry.
Univ West London launched the Express manager degree, paid for by levy
TfL talked owner van driver final mile for van scrappage
DfT briefing – Employment tribunals, courier says No.
City of London, cargo cycles and clean air
DVSA, driver CPC future of vans
Clean air comes to express final mile.
The largest single UK commercial EV van order to date;
CEO hails ‘landmark day' in the transition to more sustainable transport models;
First batch of new Nissan e-NV200 vans heading to DPD depots this week;
All 300 vehicles to be on the road by May 2020;
DPD on target to have over 500 EVs by the end of the year.
Van scrappage doubled - double payments for Van scrappage scheme
Express final mile owner-drivers get seven grand scrappage.
Go electric and get nine and a half thousand.
It's not just micro business anymore – fleets up to fifty vans become eligible.
The London Mayor announced this week he will double payments for his van scrappage scheme to £7,000.
As the big Red Royal Mail machine turns green this is a great step to help the owner driver get Euro six clean.
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