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CORONAVIRUS - Express courier - FINAL MILE – A peak we never planned for.
Coronavirus Final Mile – pinch point to delivery
Express sector has been at the heart of sustaining stay-at-home self-isolation delivery for the UK - from food to prescriptions, computers for home-working parcels of every shape and size helping stay at home and now helping Britain return to work.
IOC asks the public to help complete the final mile food delivery, mark your door, ‘I am at home, please knock and leave goods outside’
Carl Lomas IOC Chairman
Covid, a period of finest hour for final mile delivery, 200% volumes on the BtoC networks supporting stay at home, self-isolation. A peak never planned, our sector tested beyond any peak we have seen. Cyber Monday every day of the week, the longest peak on record. IOC campaign asking the public to mark their doors and help keep our drivers safe at the doorstep; delivery without contact.
Tracey Worth, IOC CEO
Mapping the express courier, trunk and none trunk networks. The IOC worked to link resource to need across the sector – Final mile, food, medical, prescription, work-at-home goods, parcels of every shape and size to help stay at home isolation.
Express courier supporting the client chain has proven resilience to deliver; from national networks to regional and local owner-operator couriers. The sector will be recognised at the National Courier Awards on Oct 20th.
Click read more below and take a look at the IOC final mile code of practice - launched by the IOC for Easter Weekend; a new code reinforcing the existing IOC best-practice code of values.
Bumper IOC Sunday emails have provided the sector with weekly COVID-19 updates, from Cabinet Office through DfT, DVSA and DWP as well as fellows' Zoom meetings and newsflash updates.
Sector expert on employment status and furlough, Alan Lewis of Constantine Law has briefed fellows every step of the way.
42% will not return to High Street
Shopping online is the new normal for 64% of UK.
Truck, van and cargo cycle for pandemic freight delivery.
Diversity of workforce win in the access to clean air vehicles.
Old school round table feel for virtual meeting rich in operators' knowledge for alternative fuel vehicles.
- Transport for London (TfL) and London Councils have launched a competition to select up to three operators for a twelve-month trial of rental e-scooters
- Trial is open to all London boroughs that want to join
- E-scooter rental trials could begin in spring next year
We are starting to see more and more e-scooters on roads and pathways. IOC chairman Carl Lomas took a look at e-scooters in Vienna. Lomas comments, ‘road safety is clearly the top issue when looking at scooters.’
DfT announce £175 million more for cycling and walking as research shows public support
Survey reveals 8 out of 10 people support measures to reduce road traffic; two-thirds support reallocating road space for active travel.
For Transit, tomorrow is on the horizon – don’t hold your breath; first deliveries for Europe look like 2022.
Midnight blue for laptop launch of the new Ford electric Transit van. First glimpse of the zero-emission new Ford E-Transit in an exciting global launch Thursday November 12.
Ford Motor Company President and CEO, Jim Farley, delivered a virtual unveiling of the new E-Transit.
But beware, first deliveries are looking like 2022 for Europe.
Whistl, has announced that it has taken leases on 450k sqft of warehouse space to meet the growing demand for Whistl Fulfilment and Contact Centres.
It has taken 300k sqft at Belkin House, Express Business Park, expanding its existing Rushden fulfilment capability and is opening its fifth Fulfilment centre, located in Unit 3 Northampton GPark.
Brexit Bubble on the IOC web brings fourth NAO report.
On Friday 6th November the UK Parliament's National Audit Office published its fourth report on the UK's border preparedness from 01 Jan 2021 onward.
"likely that widespread disruption will occur from 1 January 2021."
Andy Byford, London's Transport Commissioner, ‘Reaching this agreement with the government allows us to help London through this next phase of the pandemic’
A funding agreement with government has been reached, currently forecast to be worth around £1.8bn subject to actual levels of passenger revenue.
The agreement will enable Transport for London (TfL) to continue to support the capital for the remainder of the financial year as discussions on longer-term sustainable funding continue.
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DfT, Phil Martin helps get vans across the borders (30 Oct 2020)
This week DfT focused on haulage crossing EU borders, there was no mention of vans. IOC jumped in with Man from the Ministry, Phil Martin to help, resulting in a clear message that haulage is not just heavy trucks.
Vans are in the mix.
Friday - United Same Day Solutions, Tamworth Ltd, ‘Busy, busy day today. We have vans leaving for Paris, Rotterdam, Cologne and Dortmund.’
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