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Temporary exemption will enable vital services to continue, delivery to the door, frontline workers to get to work, and people to get essential food and medicine.
· Vans, motorcycles and cars to be granted MoT exemption
· this will allow people to carry on with essential travel
· vehicles must be kept in roadworthy condition
Vehicle owners will be granted a 6-month exemption from MOT testing, enabling them to continue to travel to work where this absolutely cannot be done from home, or shop for necessities.
Richard England, IOC chair of owner-operator group - hygiene supplies to keep our drivers safe on the front line
We need the government to gain access to hygiene supplies to keep our drivers safe on the front line. Finding adequate supplies is very difficult currently.
Companies with sign-written vans or business accounts in a courier company's name should have priority access to fuel if supply chains break down. Identification with company ID badge a possible answer to policing this and members of the IOC should carry the IOC key worker certificate.
News on funding for business continuity and wage guarantees has been a good, but we now need practical reality, advice and procedures to put this in place.
(Written Friday March 20th)
Alan Lewis was the last IOC round table keynote speaker; he is a partner at Constantine Law. He reminds us that events are moving rapidly with the Coronavirus.
He has put together an employment briefing for the IOC and he is updating next week with the Friday 80% payroll measures. The document can be accessed on the IOC web bubble for coronavirus information. We bring you the fifteen-point detail headings in summary below.
Hermes has announced it is to make a £1 million pound fund available for its self-employed couriers, to help support them if they need to self-isolate as a result of the coronavirus.
It follows concerns about their welfare as self-employed people are not eligible for sick pay.
Hermes will also support them in finding someone to deliver on their behalf if they do not have a substitute and guarantee that their rounds will be kept open for them for when they return.
This initiative is supported by the GMB Union.
Transport Secretary sets out 18 point package of measures to improve safety and public confidence.
An action plan to ensure smart motorways are as safe as possible has been set out Thursday (12 March 2020) by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps.
Work will focus on getting help to broken down drivers much quicker and making the schemes less confusing.
September 28th launch date confirmed
Leeds City Council has confirmed that the Clean Air Charging Zone (CAZ) will go live on 28 September this year
IOC are talking to Leeds on van scrappage deal values similar to TfL; there is a vehicle checker launched, more details below.
Express courier logistics announces first female boss at the giant brown postal machine.
Carol Tomé to succeed David Abney as UPS CEO.
News coming in the week following International Women's Day signposts the express courier sector as a place with diversity opportunity from flexible work patterns.
Visit the High Street or get home delivery?
Visit the supermarket or get your food shop delivered?
Are we about to see the biggest peak of final mile?
Amongst the unknowns of SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus impact, the stay at home stance, aligned with the ongoing shift from high street retail to home delivery, looks set to peak final mile exponentially.
The new Express manager Degree contains dynamic risk and external impact - one thing for sure, top level thesis titles for the next generation managers look set to lead on the impact of the virus on final mile.
DHL CEO Frank Appel, ‘It’s currently hard to judge how strong the impact of the Coronavirus will be’
A practical reality update from Alan Lewis, IOC keynote speaker, his Constantine Law summary on sick pay implications self-isolated or GP note is below.
Express courier, final mile breaks the transport trend.
Call to action – Tracey Worth asks you to tweet #iwd2020 #iocouriers today….
Express courier has been breaking the transport sector trend in gender equality, flexibility of hours in final mile has been balancing numbers and driving women to engage with the final mile workforce.
IOC CEO Tracey Worth was in Parliament with Baroness Vere, DfT permanent secretary Bernadette Kelly and transport apprentice Tsamaija Forsythe-Gidharry to mark today's Women in Transport day.
The government is consulting on the introduction of E10 – a lower carbon fuel – at filling stations across the UK.
Focused on petrol, drivers across the UK could soon be filling up their cars with a greener, lower emission fuel, DfT announced today (Wed 4th March).
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