IOC Chairman Carl Lomas, sec of the DfE Inst for Apprenticeships Express employer group talks employment status and levy qualifications.
Lomas met Ben from Yodel to explain the latest position of apprenticeship qualifications for the Express sector and take a broad look at the IOC Taylor response document.
Capturing his thoughts - It’s a sector-wide issue, there is a lot of material on the IOC web worth a look, easy summaries for both Taylor, the IOC response and the March 2018 Good Work document response. There is also a full bubble on the express qualifications where the first delivery that uses levy is very close at both manager and frontline driver level.
An ocean of space, painted shades of blue, 21m tall, speculatively built on the M1 Middle England corridor at the heart of exploding e-retail.
IOC maintained its influence on the work of Local Enterprise Partnerships in the last week of March. As an active member of the SEMLEP Logistics Forum we contributed to an event at the Altitude building at Magna Park in Milton Keynes.
SEMLEP is viewed by government as the most effective of the LEPs and other LEPS are adopting their ideas on employer engagement and implementation of local growth plans. In the SEMLEP area, logistics employs nearly 100,000 people, so IOC's work with SEMLEP ensures the needs of the Express Delivery sector are to the fore in their plans.
Discussion in the Forum – attended by employers, local councils, training organisations and academics from nearby Cranfield University - covered career pathways for young people and ways to promote apprenticeships in the sector.
Mike Brown opened the Friday morning event with group focus on how TfL can work in partnership with the freight industry and business community to deliver the Mayor’s Transport Strategy (MTS).
Big final mile players in the room - Hermes, DPD & DHL among the final mile folk - Ocado & John Lewis.
Exploding express, a third of all transport today is final mile and it was well represented.
Academics from Westminster and Sheffield.
Heavy truck folk talked parking tickets dominating but real focus was on Mayor's Transport Strategy; find an easy link to the new document on the IOC web.
Sadiq Khan Mayor of London
Transport is a cornerstone of my vision for a fairer, greener, healthier and more prosperous city.
IOC chair of electric vehicle group, Sam Clarke is looking at green beyond the power train.
Gnewt Cargo is participating in a trial to investigate whether ‘parcel porters’ could help reduce carbon emissions from delivery vans.
Researchers from four universities are delivering the project, in which porters will meet with van drivers at the kerbside and receive pre-prepared bags of parcels to deliver to homes and offices on foot.
It is expected that this could reduce the amount of time vans spend out on delivery, thus improving local air pollution due to the decreased mileage per round.
Whistl, the big orange postal machine, has announced that Fabiola Sharratt is to join the company on 3 April as Operations Director and will sit on the Executive Board.
Fabiola was Group Operations Director at the British e-commerce company, The HUT, which is Europe’s fastest growing health and beauty online retailer.
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