IOC chair Carl Lomas was at Derby University for 2016 logistics week to see student success and logistics excellence. Prof Ming Lim introduced Emily Key who finishes the undergraduate logistics course in Sept to take a role at DHL. 2016 year will see other undergraduates alongside Emily ready for work in the sector of e-retail at the heart of the East Midlands transport hot-spot in the inspirational postcode of the D2N2 LEP.
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Train the trainer conference at RTITB in the West Midlands looked at the answer. A full-house event of hauliers, trainers, awarding bodies and a traffic commissioner.
Trailblazer qualifications are headlining the transport news, both LGV and Express delivery courier, but who trains the trainers? To teach someone to drive a car you have to be a qualified instructor. There has long been discomfort in the heavy sector that no such qualification is needed in the truck world; the DVSA has a register but you don’t have to be on it and you don’t need any training qualification to teach truck drivers their driving skills.
RTITB launched their truck driver trainer standard in Telford. Carl Lomas, IOC chair, attended what was a big turnout. Hauliers, training providers, a traffic commissioner and awarding bodies were greeted with a display of heavy haulage from a yard full of MAN Iveco and Scania trucks.
IOC chair Carl Lomas was at Donington Park raceway for the Motorcycle Industry Association (MCIA) strategy day with member companies and the two-wheel dealer networks.
A focused delivery of data with a Bank of England insight into the economy. Launch of Parc data, knowledge beyond new registrations, second-hand and off-road for a full world view of two-wheelers.
Expert advice on electric - when is it not a push bike? Motivation big time with a look at the success of NEC Motorcycle live show.
This was a full house packed to the rafters, nearly 150 folk, free access to the Grand Prix museum and the roar of superbikes howling around the track outside. This was a two-wheel day not to be missed.
Institute of Couriers has welcomed a growing engagement to both regular and reserve army, exchanging employer communication to find job placement for troops exiting army to life in logistics, in reverse find heavy vehicle driver training via the reserve forces opportunities for commercial logistics individuals looking to move from warehouse to wheels jobs.
The army has long been recognised at the National Courier Awards, Defence Minister Penny Mordaunt presenting a courier silver C to RLC James Brennan in 2015.
The IOC was greatly honoured to accept an invitation from London district 151 regt to see logistics at the sharp end of the guns in Central London. IOC Chair, Carl Lomas and Tracey Worth were guests for the 41-gun salute to mark the accession to the throne of Her Majesty the Queen.
Cycle solutions for the final mile, Richard Armitage FCILT
e-Retail explosion seeks solutions to final mile. Population growth, demand for home delivery, inner city air quality, congested roads all seem to fit two wheel cycle, powered by pedal or electric.
There is nothing new about cycle couriers; during the eighties a motorbike courier who lost their licence for too many speeding points often reverted to leg power and added pedestrian zones and cut through paved areas to their street knowledge to complete deliveries in ever more concentrated zones of the inner city by pedal bike.
The cycle courier today is a green icon for client, brand and courier company; the further win is legal access to pedestrian zones, inner city areas of high density retail mix not accessible to fuelled vehicles.
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