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‘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.'
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.
Yesterday afternoon (Thursday April 16th) the Government issued its 4th version of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. At the same time HM Treasury issued a direction to HMRC about how to implement the scheme.
Expert employment lawyer for the logistics sector, Alan Lewis has reviewed both items and updated the Inst of Couriers, hot off the press with the FAQs accordingly.
Carl Lomas IOC chair, ‘Big thank-you to Alan. His update appears one of the simplest guides available, hot off the press and no-one is coming close to his express delivery.’
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He summarises the main practical considerations below.
DPD has helped turn a palliative care nurse's idea into a nationwide initiative to provide much-needed 'welfare and treat packs' for patients and NHS staff.
DPD boss, Dwain McDonald commented, "When Nikitta explained the issue, it was a no-brainer."
The new initiative - called NHS Thursday - will see thousands of welfare packs and food and treat packs collated and distributed by DPD, to 160 NHS hospitals nationwide. The items have been donated by DPD staff, either extra items that they had at home, or things they have been able to pick-up while doing their usual shopping.
Doing the right thing during the COVID-19 pandemic for express courier delivery
‘Stay at home, protect the NHS’.
IOC chief exec, Tracey Worth launched the Express courier COVID-19 best practice code for Easter weekend, a focus on actions during the COVID-19 crisis from express office through sortation to delivery at the door.
The code compliments the existing IOC code of values for best practice in the sector and can be found in the headline bubble space of the IOC web.
Today (Wednesday April 15th) Joanna Lane, TfGM Senior Stakeholder Engagement Officer, ‘We can announce that the statutory consultation on the Greater Manchester Clean Air Plan will be delayed, due to the coronavirus pandemic.’
The consultation had been planned for this summer. However, like other areas of the country, current circumstances have limited our ability to progress the delivery of the Clean Air Plan to previous timescales. We remain committed to cleaning up Greater Manchester air and work continues, where possible, to progress the Clean Air Plan.
The government has contacted Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM), which is co-ordinating the plan on behalf of the Greater Manchester local authorities, to say that it understands that the pandemic may impact on previously agreed timelines.
Institute of Couriers fellow, Tony Mannix, boss at Clipper did not take a holiday this Easter.
Tony reports,
Over the Easter Bank Holiday weekend we delivered over 48 million PPE items, including 23 million gloves, 8.6 million aprons, 4.5 million eye protectors, 1.9 million surgical masks, 753,000 FFP3 masks, 160,000 fit test solutions, and over 135,000 gowns.
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