Milestone qualification for Express courier sector.
Hold the front page, Institute of Couriers Chairman Carl Lomas announced at the Microlise transport Conference, May 16 to the largest audience of transport professionals in the UK. Express courier Trailblazer is published today.
This will bring levy-funded training to front line final mile drivers.
IFA Trailblazer launch for express courier drivers
Five thousand expected in first year for levy paid twelve month qualification in Express final mile delivery.
Three years in the making, employer built for next generation final mile delivery operators.
The training is already indexed and mapped, find it on the IOC web.
Mike Brown welcomed Tracey Worth as the new lead on Diversity.
It is such an important role that I know Tracey will bring huge enthusiasm and drive to the role and we look forward to supporting her. I am delighted she has accepted this important role
Thousands of depots at sortation round-table, IFA Coventry May 9th 2018
Express trailblazer employer group met in strength on May 9th at the Coventry HQ of the Institute for Apprenticeships. Thousands of express sortation depots were at the table to talk knowledge, skills and behaviour, developing vision for a new trailblazer standard for the sortation hub operatives in the express sector.
Institute of Couriers on stand 1026 at the UK and Ireland's largest transport and logistics event - Multimodal 2018
- 225 exhibitors
- 9,500 visitors
- 35 conference sessions
- 85 speakers
- The Multimodal Mixer - networking for exhibitors and visitors
- 12 Awards
Exclusive sneak-peek of the exhibitor stands before the doors even open ! see our photo-gallery of the stands
New Bosch diesel technology provides solution to NOx problem. Bosch CEO Dr. Denner also calls for transparency on fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.
Unprecedented emissions: NOx 10 times lower than limits set for 2020. New Bosch technology retains advantage with regard to fuel consumption and environmental impact.
Dr Denner:
There’s a future for diesel. Soon, emissions will no longer be an issue.
Whistl move to private cloud to facilitate product and international expansion.
Whistl is migrating its business-critical applications to Ensono Private Cloud to aid the expansion of the business and provide greater scalability and cost efficiency, including its core logistics platform that helps process over 4 billion mail items per year.
Whistl will migrate business critical workloads to Ensono’s private cloud platform, including its core logistics platform.
The transformation of its IT infrastructure provides Whistl with a hybrid IT model that will enable it to share workloads between private and public cloud environments as required to support its service offering.
Two wheels make CV Show last-mile moment in exploding world of Express logistics.
MAN launch van, Nissan talk two hundred miles electric and Iveco go gas with blue van.
IOC in Birmingham to walk the 50,000 metre exhibition space of the Commercial Vehicle Show at the NEC - halls 3, 3A, 4 and 5, with the workshop area for the mechanics.
Twenty thousand visitors expected for the three-day extravaganza of all vehicles commercial.
Moya Greene
It's been a pleasure and a great privilege to serve as CEO of this cherished UK institution
Friday sunshine announcement from one of the UK's most respected brands - boss of the Royal Mail, Moya Greene is to retire in September.
Moya Greene has done eight years, from a break-even to almost 500 million profit this year. Friday morning share price remained stable over £5.60.
Moya Greene will leave the board in July. She arrived at Royal Mail from Canada Post where she held the top slot. The privatisation in 2013/14 and a long-running dispute on pensions have been at the heart of her term.
Thursday, 12th April at 4.00 pm Regus Heathrow, Bath Road.
IOC chairman Carl Lomas was a guest of Hounslow Chamber at the oblong table of the Regus office at Heathrow with shippers, freight forwarders and handlers talking logistics in a frank and heated exchange opening on infrastructure. ‘Heathrow understands cargo but do they see cargo as a market ?’
Keynotes followed on next generation workforce, e-retail digitisation and a finish on alternative fuel vehicles for clean air at Heathrow.
Institute of Couriers chairman, Carl Lomas looks at the headlines,
Lomas, ‘Infrastructure remains key, fleet charge at a hub or individual driver charge at home ?’
Nigel Banes SMMT, ‘ A patchwork quilt of London geographics, street-by-street compliance is not the way.’
Simon Scarfe TfL, ‘Working with 33 London Boroughs is a big job. Compare it to 33 small cities’
Sam Clarke Gnewt, ‘ Working in silos will create a long road to success.'
Tracey Worth IOC, ‘Clean air is not just about alternative fuel !’
The full house tallied up 24 thousand vans at a single DfT round table, with giant display TVs for the energetic agenda.
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