‘My Dad is key worker and I love him with all my heart.’
DX boss, Lloyd Dunn, ‘A fantastic story of positivity and love in these unprecedented and strange times. Thank you Tom for sharing your poem with the DX family.'
DfT ‘Action will protect the transport links the country relies on.’
· government pledges support for freight services to protect flow of goods between the UK, mainland Europe and Northern Ireland
· UK, Ireland and France also agree joint commitment to protecting freight during pandemic
· light rail systems in Sheffield, Manchester, West Midlands, Nottingham and Tyne and Wear also set to receive support
· thousands of volunteers from transport sector are put on standby to support frontline services as new ‘Transport Support Unit (TSU)’ established, alongside hundreds of government vehicles from the transport network
Two weeks on - Wellbeing and treat packs to be delivered to patients and staff at over 160 hospitals
Thanks to Nurse Nikitta & her partner Nikos, who is a delivery driver in DPD's Cardiff depot.
Over 60,000 donations delivered to NHS hospitals.
Whistl finds international online purchases will fall by 24% due to COVID 19 in a survey of key markets
US (29%) and Australian (25%) online shoppers most likely to buy less from all other countries
Whistl, the leading delivery management company in the UK, has found that international online purchases in key markets will fall as a result of COVID 19.
Thursday at three – success as over sixty operators sign in
Feedback for event content unanimous - ‘appropriate.’
Rob Scott, GLH, ‘Logistics normality will not be normal after COVID-19’
Lucy Hayward-Speight TfL ‘Scrappage for heavy vehicles before end of year.’
Graham Thomas Ocado, ‘individual food final mile orders have more than doubled in value.’
Nick Bithell Knights of Old, ‘We are saving as much as two hours a route with the roads empty.’
Keeps 30,000 HGV drivers a month on the road.
COVID-19 MOT exemption, driver hours extended, this week compliance shift to keep drivers on the road was announced on Friday April 17th; the government has temporarily relaxed the requirement for bus and lorry drivers to provide a doctor’s medical report in order to renew their licence.
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