van sharing (park & loop)

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The Truth! wrote this in another thread I can't gaurantee it's accuracy,judge for yourselves.

"First things first there will be agreed guidelines for the introduction of car derived vans. Secondly some indivuduals who make a decison now that they wont drive a vechicle in the future may change their mind when they realise that will restrict what job they can do in the future.

Once an office has a delivery method revison and all offices will have one then there will only be 3 modes of delivery , 1, HCT , 2. Powered HCT or car dervived vans for walks further than a mile from the office. No other method of delivery will be allowed from then on. ie no bikes no HCTs past a mile or the use of private cars.

Now the way the guidelines propose things should happen is everyone is first asked the following questions on a one 2 one basis

Home address
current use of private cars on delivery
current travel arrangements to work
any disability or other significant needs
whether indivduals hold a driving lience
whether indivduals are willing to drive a Royal Mail vehicle

In addition the manager should also identify the following on a general basis

current availablity of private parking at the office
public transport arrangements to the office
parking availabiltiy near to the office
future availability of private parking on Royal Mail premises.

This information will assist in planning future solutions.

With regards to how duties will be allocated in future on car derived vans then the following is in Royal Mail`s guidelines.

1. Duties should be divided driving and non driving.
2. People covered by the DDA should be offered suitable duties as a priority in the process of the re-pick
3. Driving duties will be restricted to existing and volunteer new drivers and non -driving duties will be restricted to non -drivers only.
4. A driver is needed for every shared van pair. Only one non-driver can pick into a shared van duty pair.
5. Shared van partners without driving liences will be restricted to 50% or less of the total number of shared van partners.
6 The cover and leave reserve for the shared vans must be drivers to ensure that the van can be taken out each day

The guidelines also cover all the following

Matching people to job requirements
removal of support duties
Dealing with drivers who invalidate themseves from driving ie alchool or drugs , medical conditons or driving offences.
Shared van: people confilicts
Leave arrangements
retained van recovery and leave
Shared vans :vechile accountablity
Allocating employee to vehicles to be retained overnight
Staff no longer able to park private cars on site

There is a section where indivudual needs are taken into account and where pratical this can take be agreed."

Well I've read the agreement cover to cover, several versions, legit and non-legit and I don't see any of these guidelines anywhere - AND not to labour the point too much - guidelines are just that, guidelines that may or may not be adhered to.