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Delivery time trial is a success
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THE PALLET Network (TPN) has received a positive response to its campaign to limit the amount of time trucks are forced to wait to make deliveries to regional distribution centres (RDCs).
In September last year TPN and its members launched a trial that saw deliveries into RDCs being limited to between 9am and 2pm (`TPN limits delivery times in bid to cut RDC queues', CM 20 September 2007).
TPN managing director Adam Leonard says the trial has been a success. "Our members haven't refused to make deliveries outside of this window,but they have taken the time to talk to their customers.
"I think a number of members have been speaking to their clients about the issue. The clients are often dictated to by the RDCs, hut they are making the owners of the RDCs aware of when it is convenient for them to receive their deliveries," says Leonard.