IOC fellow, Grant Cochrane, senior vice president Fedex comments as Fedex land supplies of Moderna jab in the ultra-remote freezing far north of Canada's Northern Territories and Yukon.
DVSA paperwork update for MOT exemption and DCPC card.
Kent travel update, 28 December 2020
HGV traffic in Kent is moving slowly.
HGV drivers heading to the Port of Dover should get a COVID test at Manston Airport before travelling onto Dover. Eurotunnel traffic must continue to go via the M20, where testing is at Junction 8.
IOC maps the sector for delivery strength to support lockdown, signs the race charter, and, following on-the-road filming of the National Courier Awards, launches a ten fellow keynote broadcast video as fellows talk Covid challenge.
The ambassadors of our front line.
IOC best-dressed individual and team for festive season.
Our sector at its best, front line ambassadors, key workers showcase festive spirit.
At the door and in the sortation shed.
Tracey Worth launched a best-dressed festive express courier sector competition. Response has been amazing, Crown Couriers even baked a cake - not just any cake, a full-on pleated Christmas jumper replica cake. We landed IOC president, Viscount, Lord Falkland with the most difficult job of the year, ‘judge the final mile festive champions.’
A new meaning for Air Mail by Royal Mail
Nick Landon, CCO Royal Mail - first drone delivery – tip of the iceberg
Isle of Mull delivery by drone, an amazing first for Royal Mail Skyports drone. Delivering to a remote lighthouse location.
‘Overall, provision of access to site facilities has been found to be very good.’
Health and Safety Executive addressed the IOC fellows round table last month to announce sector-specific COVID safe transport and logistics audits focused on the implementation of controls to prevent Covid-19 transmission in the workplace and the provision of suitable welfare facilities for all workers.
This week HSE updated senior IOC fellows on progress.
Nina Day comments, ‘Overall, provision of access to welfare facilities has been found to be very good, with arrangements made for visiting drivers to access site facilities where they are required to wait in their cabs.’ ‘Vehicle driveaways are a significant danger during loading or unloading.’
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