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Dept for Transport and Jesse Norman MP Sunday 7am 12 Aug 2018 launched a consultation to look at whether a new offence equivalent to causing death by careless or dangerous driving should be introduced for dangerous cyclists. The Department for Transport has begun a 12-week consultation on plans to update existing road safety laws to protect pedestrians and cyclists.
The new consultation, open for 12 weeks from today (12 August 2018), will look at whether a new offence equivalent to causing death by careless or dangerous driving should be introduced for dangerous cyclists.
Argos launch summer catalogue – You're Good to Go – Same day delivery
Express home delivery - It's not all online.
Pallets of the new Argos catalogue launched this Saturday as shoppers on the high street had FAST TRACK options to order by 6pm for 10pm same day delivery.
Exploding e-retail drawing market share from bricks and mortar High Street to home delivery leaves catalogue strong.
Mayor, TfL and the Met launch the "boldest-ever plan" to eliminate deaths and serious injuries on London’s roads.
The Mayor of London, Transport for London (TfL) and the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) have this week published London’s first ‘Vision Zero’ action plan, which sets out bold and ambitious plans to eliminate deaths and serious injuries from London’s transport network.
Following the DHL-UK Mail deal at the end of 2016, the brand is set to change - also new web for over fifty sites.
A new web site and rebranding for the fifty UK Mail sites adding strong DHL international options to the customer provision.
Amazon Prime Day in delivery as Lord Mayor brands the final mile for the Institute of Couriers' last mile 1976 Honda courier bike with one hundred and twenty nine thousand miles on the clock. How many London, West End goes City deliveries is that?
Institute of Couriers President Lord Falkland was at the five hundred and first year of the ancient guild ceremony of cart marking for a bumper turnout of Institute fellows and guests - national, regional and network.
IOC heads of industry to talk shop and discuss code of practice for the future of the transport & logistics sector. VIP guests of the IOC included DfT head of freight policy, Philip Martin and Army post office boss, Colonel Andy Moffat.
Prime Day is a one-day-only global shopping event exclusively for Amazon Prime members.
Amazon - 'Sign up to experience the benefits that millions of Prime Members enjoy.'
Prime Day began three years ago, July 15th 2015, the anniversary of the original founding of Amazon by its CEO Jeff Bezos.
In 2017, Amazon Prime Day was big; numbers more than doubled from 2016.
During the IOC Taylor review, express and courier operators unanimously asked IOC for a code of conduct and this is on the way.
At the heart of such a code will be a clarification to all parties of the status of employment and an understanding of that status between the parties.
Employment status, PAYE, self-employed and worker status have been at the heart of the Taylor review for the express courier sector, who often engage van drivers in multiple and mixed platforms of employment; cost of van, fuel and maintenance, mixed with choice of routes and hours of delivery placing many drivers in the self-employment category.
IOC clearly established the majority of express operators do not view themselves in the gig economy, having bricks and mortar distribution networks and long-standing business models. Flexibility of working patterns opens opportunities across a wide diversity of driver while urban density issues challenges income value against minimum pay where deliveries are spaced apart in green road environments.
This week GMB union hit the express news with the latest Leeds tribunal reported below. And at the same time the Pimlico plumbers appeal was reported, London partner of Irwin Mitchell has published a review of the Pimlico case, summary below.
Heads of industry hold the date August 1st, lunch and pm, round table review for headlines of the IOC sector code of conduct/practice.
The round table will be hosted by Irwin Mitchell at their Holborn London HQ. Key agenda items of the code will include status of employment for couriers.
Recent EBISS event in Utrecht co-hosted by PostNL.
Tiemen van Bruggen was asked to join the podcast. Podcast report Tiemen van Bruggen is Transformation Director at PostNL, he joins me to talk about delivery and strategy. We talk about differences in residential delivery across various European countries, setting up a delivery network from scratch, and agile development.
Rich in operator discussion at the heart of low emission solutions for light vehicles, cargo bikes and small vans
Lomas opened with a pineapple example of supply chain delivered to the door in the exploding e-retail final mile client chain.
Rob Scott Greater London Hire, GLH, ‘We all need to be more joined up with a common view of clean air.’
Sam Clarke Gnewt, ‘It's crazy not to have parking next to charge points.’
Kevin Valentine, Addison Lee, ‘You need to scale up the rapid charges really fast.'
June sunshine, football fever as TfL LoCITY light vehicle group packed the Broadway TfL building in SW1, no seats left in the house, operators talking real delivery of clean air included, CitySprint, Addison Lee, Ocado and UPS as frank exchanges detailed the understanding of real world steps, for April 2019 ULEZ and what was going to be beyond.
DPD boss Dwain MacDonald,
Our new Nottingham depot is helping to improve mileage, journey times and CO2 emissions. Investment in new locations, larger, purpose-built depots and our new, larger DCs make a huge difference to our operational efficiency. Nottingham gives us room to carry on growing.
Chairman of the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire LEP D2N2, Peter Richardson named the region as the inspirational postcode of England, with eighty per–cent of the UK within four hours' tacho drive.
The new DPD depot brings efficiency in routes that will support clean air and load 200 new jobs into the LEP zone when Nottingham becomes fully operational.
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