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Not a seat left in the house for July sunshine freight forum at TfL Palestra House for July 3rd with opening keynote by Mike Brown.
ULEZ compliance impact and Vision Zero road to safety with 59 road deaths so far this year this year
Julian Allen asked the low-powered two-wheel accident question.
IOC continue to point out there is no challenge of understanding the Highway Code for a rider delivering food; a CBT is compulsory, but you don’t have to pass the theory test to ride on the road while making a living.
Clean air is not just London's issue; it's not just ULEZ London. Megan Black at Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) is running a seven-week clean air conversation which closed midnight, Sunday 30 June
IOC have asked TfGM for dedicated final mile delivery parking for low and zero-emission vehicles, to encourage the business case for the next generation vans.
IOC keynote with Next plc
Taking the room photo, Highways England to the DfT, Tracey Worth opened her keynote to the work-related road safety committee with an explanation of the 500-year tradition of cartmarking, the relevance to today's taxation and regulation of congestion and ULEZ charging to the purveyor of goods.
Three years in the making. Full House of Freight Logistics in the City of London
Fast Green & Free deliveries, overcoming the Last Mile Challenge
FTC Freight Traffic Control conference in the City of London
Institute of Couriers fellows and team were in the City of London this week, Tuesday in a full-house multi-modal audience focused on final mile.
Curly Wurly special for fifth year delivery speed question?
Next-generation Inclusion for logistics workforce.
Carmen Cartboard 500-year journey to ULEZ.
The ‘A’ list diary slot for logistics at the NEC; IOC fellows were in strength at the NEC for Multimodal.
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DfT STAT next-generation logistics workforce at NEC
Tracey Worth talked DfT STAT next generation workforce inclusion on the IOC stand at Multimodal in the NEC.
Who is STAT? who are we and what do we do? Being at Multimodal was about taking away and doing that one thing, start your journey today, sign the pledge commitment board for diversity today, here before you leave. Placing 86 employer commitments here today.
The Carmen Cartboard was displayed on the IOC Honda 1976 courier bike – fellows and visitors to the ‘A’ list logistics trade show got a first-hand introduction to the transport livery and its five hundred years of sector history.
The Cartboard showcased the earliest form of vehicle taxation, clean streets five hundred years before clean air and ULEZ.
‘Inclusion of workforce for logistics in a modern business’
Strategic transport apprenticeship taskforce diversity event.
Mike Brown, STAT chair,
We are seeing good progress in the increase of diversity and inclusion; it is really important that we understand apprentices’ experiences and act on them to keep on making progress’
Tracey Worth - ‘Diversity - What one thing can you do?’
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Green-focused overhaul of fleet with the launch of a new electric vehicle, trailers and Microlise GPS tracking software to optimise driver performance.
Yodel has announced a £15.2m investment in its fleet, designed to reduce the environmental impact of its road-based operations. The investment includes new vehicles and trailers as well as technology to improve efficiency and safety.
DfT announced this week, new national parking data standards are to be introduced which could mean the end of outdated parking systems.
The world-leading project sees the introduction of new data standards which could revolutionise parking, improving the driver experience.
Data could identify available parking spaces, permitted times and prices, in simple formats that smartphone apps can use right across the country. This could mean the end of outdated parking systems, encouraging more shoppers onto Britain’s high streets.
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