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Michael Welch Quotes and Sayings

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In Boston they have gone from large autonomous high
schools to smaller schools within the same building.
- Michael Welch

It was more freeing, mainly because he's so free anyway.
He just is in his performance.
So to mimic someone doing a free performance,
well, that's pretty freeing within itself.
- Michael Welch

I know a lot of actors don't watch themselves on TV,
but I think it's good to see how else you can improve.
- Michael Welch

I guess because you study the character and you do all those things.
But when it comes down to it, it's still my performance,
it's still my interpretation.
I'm not going to, you know, be a clone -
I was a clone of Richard Dean Anderson!
- Michael Welch

Let's use the energy of this historic year to propel
us toward our shared vision of a greater Boston.
- Thomas Menino

The frozen ocean...
of Boston life.
- Julia Ward Howe

Boston's freeway system is insane.
It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his
childhood crashing toy trains.
- Bill Bryson

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The fans were so psyched that someone was doing a movie
about a Boston fan that they were giving their all.
- Jimmy Fallon

Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage.
I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a pound
more than when I sailed from Boston.
- Joshua Slocum

Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the
larger proportion of people are loving,
rational and happy.
- Julia Ward Howe

Currently, Boston has only nine percent of the state's population -
but we provide more than 16 percent of the jobs and
19 percent of the state's revenues.
- Thomas Menino

I watched Gretzky, I watched Lemieux.
Maybe it's the time when you're playing,
but for a kid coming into the league,
you play the Boston Bruins and you just watched Bobby Orr.
- Marcel Dionne

Kev has these old Boston drills, where you all have to talk to each other,
and interact, and it's helped us.
- Kevin Garnett

I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday.
- Raymond Chandler

I felt like my pregnancy was a sacred moment for me.
I stayed in Boston and I didn't work apart from the contracts I have,
and then I only let them use my face.
- Gisele Bundchen

I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams,
and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've
ever done for any other medium or occasion.
- Peter Maxwell Davies

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States
to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone
directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
- William F. Buckley, Jr.

And it was from Boston that one in every six American
families began their journey into the land of the free.
- Thomas Menino

I don't believe a manager ever won a pennant.
Casey Stengel won all those pennants with the Yankees.
How many did he win with the Boston Braves and Mets?
- Sparky Anderson

I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard,
before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.
- Bernie Worrell

Here's what I see all across this great city -
people working together to make Boston a better place
to live and to raise children,
to grow and pursue dreams.
- Thomas Menino

In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only
public high school in Boston with a theatre program.
- Donnie Wahlberg

When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because
it is such a pleasant place to get away from.
- Oliver Herford

I fell in love with Boston, so hopefully,
I'll be here for a long time.
- Johnny Damon

They played Boston.
They played at the Boston Tea Party and through an
amazing chain of events I got to hang out with them
backstage even though I was underage.
- Jonathan Richman

Boston is safe.
And we're going to keep it safe.
- Thomas Menino

Tonight, I am pleased to announce that I have secured
$1 million from the Convention Host Committee to fund
the beautification of Boston's neighborhoods.
- Thomas Menino

In Boston serpents whistle at the cold.
- Robert Lowell

There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history,
obviously, in New York with all the championships.
- Rafael Palmeiro

What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College.
- William P. Leahy

If Ted Williams just tip his cap once he could be elected
Mayor of Boston in five minutes.
- Eddie Collins

A Boston man is the east wind made flesh.
- Thomas Gold Appleton

I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams -
Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers,
same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.
- Oscar Robertson

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston,
probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?
- Iris Chang

I was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 16,
1923, the only child of Joel and Sylvia Miller.
- Merton Miller

I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and
a very strong and empowering single mom.
- Eliza Dushku

For every $5 that Boston's economy sends up to Beacon Hill,
the state gives only $1 back to us.
- Thomas Menino

After a couple years of occasional lessons with Pass
I moved to Boston to attend the New England Conservatory.
- Mark White

I have just returned from Boston.
It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.
- Fred Allen

We cut a few corners and brought the picture in under budget by $25,000,
so Paramount let us go back to Boston with a small
crew to shoot some additional footage.
- Arthur Hiller

Boston is known for its innovation.
- Thomas Menino

You know how the church has been hit so hard by the
sexual misconduct by clergy,
and what's that's done to Catholics,
especially here in Boston but elsewhere as well.
- William P. Leahy

About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics.
And that sort of just evolved into organized crime,
because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.
- Howie Carr

In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience,
or in L.A., Chicago, Boston.
But when you get into secondary markets,
they don't have a clue.
- Bryan Ferry

I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler -
I was the only one that lived to tell the story -
so I called myself the romantic lead.
- Sally Kellerman

I'm a kid from Boston.
- Rob Mariano

I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe,
so I like to give science books.
- Anthony Doerr

I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857.
- Edward Bellamy

Boston is the engine of the state's economy.
- Thomas Menino

I won my first medal when I was nine years old.
It was at the Boston Open.
- Nancy Kerrigan

Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is
that I am obsessed with hockey.
I grew up in the Boston area so I am obsessed with
hockey since I was a little kid.
- Rob Zombie

I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the
New England Historical Genealogical Library,
where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back
to the seventeenth century.
- Rick Moody

Boston is actually the capital of the world.
You didn't know that? We breed smart-ass,
quippy, funny people.
Not that I'm one of them.
I just sorta sneaked in under the radar.
- John Krasinski

My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

We don't have a full black community in Boston.
Our people are scattered.
There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park
but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago.
- Henry Hampton

2004 was a great year for Boston!
The Patriots won the Super Bowl!
Boston hosted its first national political convention!
And - the Red Sox won the World Series!
- Thomas Menino

The VCR is to the American film producer and the American
public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.
- Jack Valenti

Being the first to cross the finish line makes you
a winner in only one phase of life.
It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.
- Ralph Boston

So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston.
He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine,
who gave him the name of Mitchell.
He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married.
- George J. Mitchell

The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged
alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster.
But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims,
and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day
conference in early June at Boston College.
- Godfried Danneels

We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many
years where we measured the angles of incidence of
sound arriving at the ears of the audience,
then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them.
- Amar Bose

Our situation here, without any exaggeration,
is beyond description almost; it is such as eye has not seen nor ear heard,
nor hath it ever entered into the heart of men to conceive
Boston ever to arrive at.
- Peter Oliver

When I started at the Globe 40 years ago,
there were seven newspapers in Boston and now there are only two.
There were only three or four television stations in
Boston and now there are a dozen.
- Will McDonough

A very considerable body of the German people live
in America and propose to fight that Government.
Bourke in his great speech last week welcoming the
Belgian mission to Boston worked out the President's meaning with care.
- Shane Leslie

In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy.
We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city,
and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime.
- Thomas Menino

My ship was also in better condition than when she
sailed from Boston on her long voyage.
She was still as sound as a nut, and as tight as the best ship afloat.
She did not leak a drop - not one drop!
- Joshua Slocum

At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked
why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books.
The question rattled around in my head.
I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture.
- Jonathan Carroll

There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public,
so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area,
all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public.
- Amar Bose

I'm definitely nervous and excited.
I feel like I've been playing off-Broadway,
not to say that Boston doesn't have a great theatre
district or great theatre,
but it's not going to Broadway; it's just a different city.
- Todd English

I guarantee you, if you could give me 10 points in
all those seventh games against the Boston Celtics,
instead of Bill Russell having 11 rings,
I could've at least had nine or eight.
- Wilt Chamberlain

I had never been to the playoffs, and it was exciting.
The fans went through the roof.
They were excited about the whole team.
It was great to be traded to a city like Chicago,
which was a lot like Boston.
- Dennis Eckersley

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Media and Reality: Why is there such a discrepancy for HGVs?

Media and Reality: Why is there such a discrepancy for HGVs?

HGVs are covered a lot in the media but it’s no secret that the headlines are usually associated with bad news.  In these cases, it’s extremely unfortunate that a sweeping opinion is made of people that are simply doing their job.

Without the HGV drivers who work their hardest to deliver what we pick up in the supermarket or online shopping purchases with the added convenience of one-day delivery, our lives would be very different.  Even during the holiday season in December when the industry is up against a driver shortage, those drivers inside their cabs still work their hardest to deliver.

The media covers a multitude of HGV accidents and the blame is usually on the HGV driver (rightly or wrongly).  Perhaps with trucks being the bigger vehicle, this is where the blame originates, even in situations where the cause hasn’t been found yet.  In an article written by Transport Topics, just last year, it was reported that 80% of car-truck crashes are caused by car drivers however, truck drivers are still blamed.

In the media, it’s a familiar concept for stories to be written purely to stir up outcry.  There is plenty of discussion over how damaging this can be for a number of industries, as well as individuals.  With road accidents, often comes a “he said, she said” situation with eye witnesses describing differing accounts for what happened.  This is why more and more fleet managers are having vehicle cameras in trucks to use as evidence, if ever needed.  In-cab recordings are also becoming more and more popular, as they show clearly what a driver is doing at the time of an accident – making it easy to see they’re blameless and were fully concentrating.

Interestingly, in 2017 Volvo Trucks carried out a survey with the public to gauge attitudes towards lorries.  Out of the 2,095 adults quizzed, 92% said they recognised the role that HGVs play in the smooth-running of everyday life.  96% also said they understood that an HGV driver possesses significant skills and training.  Professionals drivers and their lorries are the beating heart of British trade, supporting the economy as they transport goods up and down the country.

From the perspective of other road users such as cyclists, there’s been a call for lorries in urban areas to be reduced and that goods should be transferred to smaller vehicles, when delivering in towns and city centres.  A valid idea but with this comes many more factors to take into account, for example the extra time and money needed to orchestrate it.

With the current driver shortage that the industry is facing, which is only to be exacerbated with Brexit pending, it’s important to realise just how much the country depends on HGVs.  Instead of reprimanding professional drivers as a whole, bad driving should be called out – consumer, mainstream media attention does not focus on the majority of excellent professional drivers on the road and the necessity to British trade and economy.  The mainstream media should balance out their reporting to make sure their readers can form a fair and balanced view of professional drivers.  If consumers only see multiple stories about bad driving, their feelings will be unfairly skewed.

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How to Get Your Foot on the Logistics Career Ladder

The thought of a career change is a prospect which is exhilarating and daunting in equal measure. The endless opportunities and the chance to completely change your day to day activities is an incredibly exciting thought, but then the question must be asked: how do I even start a new career?

For those thinking about switching lanes (pun very much intended) and making the move into a career as a professional driver, we have a simple message: you’ll be choosing a rewarding career, and help is out there to make this a reality.

Now, as a professional driving recruitment firm, of course we’ll say it’s a rewarding career – but here’s why. Working in the logistics and transport sector can mean flexible hours – ideal for those looking to start a family. The industry is one where you’re always supported by a dedicated team and build strong relationships, but the ability to travel the country has a sense of autonomy. Then there’s the salary benefits – the supply chain is an industry the country simply cannot function without, and of course a career in logistics can lead to opportunities in management and running your own fleet.

The first thing to consider when thinking about becoming a professional driver is whether you have the characteristics to suit the work. You must enjoy driving, employ patience, possess a strong knowledge and respect of road safety, enjoy your own company, display strong self-motivation and be in good physical condition.

There’s more to the job than sitting behind the wheel though, you’ll likely plan delivery schedules and routes with transport managers, monitor traffic reports to make sure your routes are clear, as well as carrying out general maintenance checks on your vehicle before and after journeys.

To become a professional driver, youmust be 18 years old or over and hold a full car driving license.  The next stage would be to find a reputable local LGV learner driver training provider, take & pass your test and then receive CPC Training, here at Drivers Direct we’re a JAUPT accredited CPC Training Centre – as we said, the help is here.  We offer training to our own drivers on behalf of our clients, as well as in-house training for prestigious transport companies.  Via our website, we also offer a free digital tachograph simulator download which includes interactive tutorials which will take you through the different types of tacho machines.

In terms of working hours, they could vary but in a permanent position you can be expected to work up to 42 hours a week and overtime may be available, but the laws are strict (for good reason) on the number of hours spent driving and working in between rest breaks to ensure the safety of all road users.

We have a wide network of branches throughout the UK, offering vacancies for all classes of driver, you can view the positions here.  We operate within a wide range of sectors including postal, food production, DIY, building trade, general haulage and clothing distribution.  If you’re looking to hit certain requirements, as a customer of Drivers Direct, we can help you do that – why not get in touch and see what we can offer to your business to reach its goals?

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Drivers Direct on: Recruitment, Logistics & Brexit

Drivers Direct on: Recruitment, Logistics & Brexit

It’s been hard to ignore the b-word that’s been on everyone’s lips and in the media since 29th March 2017.  Brexit has no doubt been the talk of the country and the world for that matter.  Ever since the referendum results were announced there’s been numerous companies offering their perspective on what they think it will mean for not just the UK but also their own businesses.  With Brexit we’re plunging into the unknown and the UK want answers.

With the recruitment sector and Brexit there’s been worries over talent shortages and questions over movability, especially as the recent whitepaper released by the Government stated that there would be free movement.  The report aims to offer a clear vision of what they want to achieve upon exiting the EU – but many are still feeling very much in the dark.  The one saving grace is that the UK plans to negotiate an arrangement that would allow UK nationals to visit the EU for short-term businesses purposes and vice versa for EU citizens.  This would offset any pressure on companies that have link to the EU, for example other offices or business partners.

However, some businesses have expressed their doubt in the Government’s ability to proceed successfully with Brexit plans.  The second quarter of 2018 has also seen some recruitment difficulties across various sectors including manufacturing, retail and hospitality – right down to fruit farmers, who are facing a lack of seasonal labourers leading to produce spoiling with too few hands.  It’s vital that UK businesses are brought out of the dark to find out what they can expect following the introduction of Brexit.

Recruitment in the professional driving industry, particularly with HGV drivers, is experiencing a similar issue to the fruit farmers.  Workers from the EU are staying in their home countries instead of coming over to the UK for work due to the uncertainty that Brexit poses as we near the leaving date with very little decisions made for the industry.  The Government is still working out the knots for their Brexit plans but the professional driving industry is already experiencing driver shortages, meaning clarity is urgently needed not only for UK businesses, but EU workers too.

James Hookham, the Deputy Chief Executive of the Freight Transport

Association recently told industry press that although the recent whitepaper had offered positive proposals for certain areas of the logistics industry, issues such as the security of job status for skilled EU workers are still unspoken for.  The free movement of workers between the UK and EU needs to have further explanation, as well as providing reassurance to businesses who depend on those workers for the continuity of their deliveries.  Over 45,000 HGV drivers from Europe currently work in the UK; without the appropriate working permits, job losses could have a serious effect on the industry.

It’s safe to say that there’s been a lot of upset over the thought of the UK leaving the EU, with some even claiming it’ll have an apocalyptic effect!  At this stage in the game, we’re hoping for clarity for the recruitment sector as a whole, as well as what Brexit will mean for foreign drivers and working permits.  As an area that was lightly touched on in the Brexit whitepaper compared to other aspects of logistics, we hope to see a lot more discussion on it in the coming months.

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Drivers Direct on Tachograph Tampering

Drivers Direct on Tachograph Tampering

With tachograph tampering being a hot topic over the last year we thought we’d explore and delve into the issues that surround it.  Tachographs have an integral part to play in HGVs and commercial vehicles as they record driving time, breaks, rest periods and other types of work carried out by the driver.   When the UK joined the EEC (European Economic Community) in 1973, a social regulation was accepted under the treaty of Accession to support the work of lorry and coach drivers.  In 1979 the UK was held in breach of the rules and regulations and new legislation was put in place to make sure all commercial vehicles had tachographs installed by the end of 1981.  Fast forward to 2006 and the digital tachograph was born and compulsory for all new commercials registered on or after 1st May 2006.

More recently, tachographs have seen a lot of attention in the news and, unfortunately, this isn’t because they’re incredibly helpful and useful to the wellbeing of drivers.  A BBC investigation found last year that there had been a 21% increase in tachograph tampering compared to 2016.  In a bid to crack down on these misdemeanours, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) carried out 223,000 roadside checks between April 2016 and March 2017 – a move we fully supported.  During that time, the DVSA found 400 drivers that had crossed the border into the UK and were using “interrupters” to switch off their tachographs.  A Bulgarian driver was stopped in North Wales for using an “interrupter” and driving non-stop for 23 hours.  Using such a device disables a lorry’s advanced braking system and speedometer – a dangerous move which poses a threat to all road users.

The whole concept certainly begs the question of why drivers would cheat their tachograph and risk their own and other road users’ safety.

Are unscrupulous businesses themselves putting the pressure on drivers through their company culture of looking the other way, making it appear to be the norm for drivers to exceed their legal hours?  There’s also the darker side, are some drivers distracted by the attraction of more money and finding that tampering with a tachograph is a short cut to this?  Alternatively, could these unscrupulous business owners be allowing this and looking the other way?

The consequences of breaching the use of a tachograph start with penalties of up to £5000.  A prison sentence isn’t out of the question either, as was found with two former haulage directors who conspired with drivers to tamper with tachograph records.  They both received sentences of 2 years and 18 months and had some hefty fines to pay.  On a more serious level, crimes of this nature have caused a tragic amount of unnecessary deaths on the road.  According to The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents driver fatigue may be a contributory factor to 20% of road accidents and 25% of fatal or serious crashes.

Here at Drivers Direct, we work closely with all our clients and together we take the safety of HGV drivers very seriously and of course others on the roads.  The dangerous decision to tamper with a tachograph can have devastating consequences, with this in mind it’s of vital importance for logistics operators to communicate with their employees and vice versa.  If a driver is feeling concerned about meeting strict deadlines, it must be addressed in a safe and legal manner.  One conversation with an employer could discourage break skipping and, in turn, save a life.

Here at Drivers Direct, we encourage plenty of communication between drivers and management, creating a culture where all can bring forward any issues they may have.  We hope that other businesses follow – for the sake of drivers’ physical and mental wellbeing and the safety of our roads.

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Drivers Direct On Beating The January Blues

Drivers Direct On Beating The January Blues

January is in full swing and the Christmas and New Year festivities have been and gone.  For some people, the Christmas period is something to look forward to, plenty of time spent with family and friends and eating far too much food!  Once the new year rolls around, the January blues set in as reality kicks in and everyone goes back to work.  Here at Drivers Direct, we think it’s so important to tackle the January blues head, whether your office is behind a desk or behind the wheel.  We’ve put together some tips on how to harness a positive outlook during the remainder of the winter months.

Start your working day right with a positive playlist that sets you up for the day.  Whether you’re an HGV driver or on your way to the office, creating a playlist with all your favourite songs is bound to put a smile on your face.  Spotify allows you to customise your own playlists which you can make as long as you want – ideal for long driving shifts.  The music service also creates fantastic playlists for any mood and occasion if you’re struggling to pinpoint your favourite tracks!

At this time of year it’s cold and dark, making it very easy to fall down the rabbit hole of treating yourself to more indulgent foods.  These might momentarily make you feel better, but in the long-term it isn’t likely to boost your mood.  Be sure to look after yourself, whatever profession you’re in by preparing healthy snacks for your working day.  We’ve always heard the repetitive advice to drink plenty of water during the day but the benefits of doing this really do shine through!  Water prevents fatigue and dehydration whilst helping to transport nutrients in the blood that are needed for energy.  High energy snacks like shelled Edamame beans are packed with B-vitamins and great for keeping you going during the day.  Of course fruit makes for a healthy snack but it can be awkward to deal with pips and peels whilst on the road.  Instead, why not invest in some dried fruits, a delicious source of energy and easy to eat whilst on the go?  We’re thinking dried banana chips, mangoes or apple rings.    Staying healthy doesn’t always mean you have to cut chocolate out of your life forever though, it’s always good to treat yourself!

There’s no denying the power of positive thinking.  Instead of wishing away your week, focus on things that you’re looking forward to in the upcoming days.  Additionally, taking a mental note of things you appreciate but tend to take for granted to help put matters into perspective on tough days.

With the busy lives that we lead, we’re sometimes guilty of convincing ourselves we don’t have time to go to the gym or exercise.  But you can truly surprise yourself with the amount you can do if you put your mind to it.  Yes, it’s so easy to come home from work on a dark January evening and reach for the snacks and TV remote but instead why not do your favourite sport or a quick home workout.  YouTube has hundreds of workout videos that you can do from the comfort of your own home, including 7 minute high-intensity workouts which are reportedly the best way to exercise, you can take inspiration from Tech Insider’s routine or the 20 minute work out from Fitness Blender.

We hope that we’ve shed some light on how to turn that January frown upside down.  As a recruitment company, we understand that everyone is uniquely different and will deal with the January blues in a number of ways, but we aim to give some inspiration this month to everyone looking for ways to boost their positivity.

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2017 - A Year In Review

2017 – A Year In Review

It’s December already and we can’t quite believe where the time has gone as we edge into the New Year.  We’ve been reflecting on this past year at Drivers Direct, thinking about our success and the achievements of our team.

In February, we became members of the Association of Recruitment Consultancies (ARC) – following our MD Gethin Roberts’ attendance at an ARC presentation.  We found that our objectives and values ran parallel to ARC which was a deciding factor for joining, as well as the association covering issues that really matter to those working in the recruitment sector.

May saw us through to the finals at the Global Recruiter Awards in the Best Use of Social Media Category for our anti-drink driving campaign; where we used striking posters to show the devastating effects of drinking and driving.  It was fantastic to have been nominated for the category and a great day was had by all at the Café de Paris in June.

We had our successful annual black tie ball for our employees back in May, showing recognition to the branches whose hard work has really shone through over this past year.  The Doncaster office was named as one of the most successful branches with their manager, Jason Hardisty winning a trip to London.  Kaylie Parker at the Eastleigh branch won a trip to Paris following their win of the ‘Highest Margin’ title.

After providing Drivers Direct with 5 top quality years of service, Christopher Unsworth of the Leyland branch, David Dawson of the Sheffield branch and Maxine Mew of the Sutton branch were each given the ‘Five Year’ award – a well deserved nomination.  As the most top performing franchise, Manchester won ‘Franchise of the Year’, as well as a cheque for £1,500.  Scooping one of the top awards, Nana Bempong was dubbed ‘Employee of the Year’ as he was the most successful employee out of all the branches – quite the accolade!  As the Cardiff office was recognised as the most successful branch of all, manager Luke Davies, won himself the coveted trip to New York.

After creating a shortlist of charities to support at our annual ball, our staff chose the Victory Services Club which is a great cause which offers respite and welfare breaks, rewards and recognition along with a free membership for serving Armed Forces.  Everyone who attended our annual ball made a donation and in September we presented our donation to the club, having raised £250,000 for the charity – an achievement we’re incredibly proud of.  We hope with our donation further enables the club to give the best possible experience to those serving in the military, past and present.

All in all, it has been a great year for Drivers Direct. What’s on the cards for 2018? We’ll be opening 3 more branches, as well as setting our sights on moving to a bigger HQ as we look to further expand the business.

From all of us here at Drivers Direct, we hope you have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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Speed Down Save Lives

Speed Down Save Lives

Taking place this week (20th-26th November), Road Safety Week is encouraging drivers to ‘Speed Down Save Lives’.  The road safety charity, Brake, have been spreading their life-saving messages since 1997 with a different theme every year and this year they’re encouraging people to spare a thought for the impact of breaking the legal speed limit.

The charity shares some startling facts to support the importance of this years’ theme:

  • Police records detail that travelling too fast is a contributory factor for one in four (23%) fatal crashes in Great Britain.
  • Drivers that have committed just one speeding violation annually are twice as likely to crash compared to those with none.
  • 4 in 10 UK drivers admitted to driving at 30mph in a 20mph zone, according to result from a Brake survey.

These figures are a prime example of why road safety charities are so important.  As a recruitment company for drivers, we see ourselves as ambassadors of the road and always promote the highest levels of safety.  We’re delighted to see Road Safety Week focusing on such an important issue.

There’s no limit on who can get involved with this awareness week, people from all sectors and organisations are encouraged to get involved.  Your support can vary from tapping into the hashtag “#speeddown”, on social media and thinking about your own speed on the road to ordering an action pack to use at your workplace or local community gatherings.  If you’re stuck for ideas on how you can fundraise for Road Safety Week – there’s plenty of donation inspiration on their website.

Making a donation to Brake can help run their helpline, provide picture books for children who’ve been affected by road accidents and source road safety packs for early years educators.  In May of this year, Brake also gave their support to the United Nations Global Road Safety Week – focusing on managing speed and prioritising road safety worldwide.  A small change makes big results with research showing that just a 5% decrease in speed can cause a 30% reduction in fatal road accidents.  To think such a small difference could save a life, it’s incredibly important for all drivers to keep these types of statistics in mind when they’re on the road.

Here at Drivers Direct, as professional and highly trained drivers we take road safety very seriously and we think this campaign goes hand-in-hand perfectly with the new speeding fines implemented back in April of this year.  We think these new fines are a great way to discourage speeding on our roads:

  • Band A – Although this relates to the lowest level of speeding, you could find yourself with 3 points on your license with a fine of 50% of your weekly income. This band equates to driving between 21mph and 30mph in a 20mph zone.
  • Band B – For more serious speeding, you could find 4 – 6 points on your license or even a disqualification between 7 and 28 days, including a fine of 100% of your weekly income. For example, you could be driving between 56mph to 65mph in a 40mph zone.
  • Band C – Reaching this band is a serious cause for concern as you would’ve been driving 51mph or above in a 30mph zone. That’s 6 points on your license and ban from driving from 7 up to 56 days along with a fine of 150% of your weekly income.

We encourage ALL road users to think about their speed and how a small decrease in speed can truly mean the difference between a normal day on the way to work or a fatal road accident.  If you’re aware of bad traffic on your route to work, you can actively make a change to your “need for speed” by leaving your house earlier than usual.

How will you be getting involved this year?

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Black Friday: Are You Ready?

Black Friday: Are You Ready?

The biggest sale event of the year is coming soon on 24th November, a day where the public tackle crowds and queues for their coveted Christmas shopping.  With the dramatic reduction in prices across retailers, sales will be set to soar – which will have a direct effect on the delivery industry.

An article in the Telegraph last November discussed how Black Friday doesn’t make people spend more money for Christmas, it just makes them spend earlier.  This leads to a demand not only during January clearances and the week run-up to Christmas, but also way ahead in November.

Most high street shops offer online shopping with the option to collect your items for free from your local branch.  However, customers are far more likely to opt for the consumer-convenient home delivery option; and Black Friday poses as an even greater challenge to drivers: with the dramatic reduction of prices comes a huge influx of online orders, each expected to be delivered directly to homes across the nation within a maximum of 5 working days.

Following last years’ reports on safety of delivery drivers during Black Friday, it’s important for retail managers to ensure that they have recruited enough driving staff to keep up with this high customer demand.  This is even more important given that last year the media reported empty high street shops as the Black Friday race took place online – leaving town centres quiet, but online shops full of people making their Black Friday purchases!

As Black Friday becomes more and more popular each year, it could be argued that November may replace December as being the peak trading month.  Not only that, online spends of up to £20 billion have been predicted – highly qualified, professional drivers will be more vital than ever for the consumer economy to run efficiently.

And although it is, of course, important to make sure customers are satisfied and receive their orders on time, it’s even more important to ensure that there is enough rotation amongst delivery staff to prevent fatigue behind the wheel.  Not only are well rested drivers a crucial health and safety measurement for delivery staff and other road users, but businesses will find that their retail supply chain becomes a far more seamless operation.

If you’re thinking about the logistics of your Black Friday sale, get in touch with our team of professionals today to discuss the benefits of taking on temporary driving staff during this busy season.

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2040 Petrol-diesel car ban: ‘Smokescreen’ or a welcomed reality?

Following France’s announcement at the beginning of July to ban all fossil fuel powered vehicles, our own government has made an announcement of their own.   The breaking news from parliament is that the UK is banning petrol-diesel cars from 2040, with a new tax implemented on diesel drivers by 2020.  We think it’s great news that the government are being proactive in making a change to the current air pollutions level in the UK. However, the Government should also ensure that individuals do not lose out in the run up to any tax increase, or bans, given that the UK Government also encouraged us all to go Diesel in the past.

According to health experts and medical practitioners, air pollution has contributed to the loss of around 40,000 lives a year and it’s been concluded that poor air quality is now a public health emergency.  Speaking to The Independent, Darren Baxter, a researcher with IPPR North referred to air pollution as the “tobacco of the 21st century.”  Just as smoking was regulated by the government, it’ll be just as important to tackle air pollution.  A briefing from the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs and Public Health England details that air pollution contributes to cardiovascular disease, lung cancer and respiratory disease.

Amongst the positive reactions to this announcement there have been some criticisms.  It’s been argued that action needs to be taken now in 2017 and not in twenty-three years time, especially as electric cars are already being manufactured.  Citizens of the UK will continue to be at risk from harmful air pollution between now and 2040.

Speaking to the Financial Times, Andy Palmer, chief executive at Aston Martin also criticised the ban and urged the Government to assist in the transition to electric technology to lessen the economic impact on the British car industry.  Palmer went on to say that the target for electric car sales by 2040 is absurd due to the long distances that some drivers need to travel (this would certainly apply to many of us in the driving and haulage profession).  Erik Fairbairn, founder and chief executive of electric car charging company PodPoint, predicts that up to 45m charging points will be needed for installation into most households by 2040.  A lot of planning and changing will be need to reach such a vast goal.

The talk of the petrol-diesel ban has mainly related to cars – but how will the new law affect the haulage industry specifically?  Of course, logistics is extremely important as we live in a high demand world of online shopping and the promise of next day delivery.  An article from the BBC discusses how not all vehicle owners will switch to electric replacements.  With regards to heavy goods and public service vehicle owners, they may use natural gas or hydrogen powered modules.  The use of a hydrogen powered vehicle could potentially have the capacity to match the same range as a petrol-diesel vehicle.  It is non-polluting, quieter and three times more efficient than conventional engines.  However, it has been confirmed that HGVs are excluded from the ban, but there are plans to include them beyond that.  This could answer some questions for HGV drivers in the logistics industry who’ve been unsure of the implications of this new plan.  The Government intend to devise an incentive by making changes to the HGV Road User Levy to help reduce carbon emissions and increase air quality.

Overall there have been mixed responses to this recent news from the Government but we certainly support it and we’re always on the lookout for the latest technology and ways we can contribute to helping our environment.  We look forward to seeing how technology develops to meet the goals of eventually reducing the unhealthy effects of air pollution.

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Reducing Your Carbon Footprint

In 2008, Carbon Dioxide was considered a major greenhouse gas – accounting for 85 per cent of UK emissions.  According to the Freight Transport Association (FTA) support guide, if we want to reduce the risk of temperatures rising by at least 2° C by 2100, we need to cut emissions in half by 2050.

Whether you drive a car, van, truck or a motorbike, there are loads of simple changes you can make which can help to reduce your carbon footprint:

Within the freight sector, there are ‘smart logistics’ available in the form of telematics – which we’ve discussed previously in our blog as the future of driving.  The telematics system collects data from a GPS, a sensor on the engine and an accelerometer.  The sensor notes vehicle health data such as fuel economy, service needs and carbon dioxide output.  This allows companies to work out if they need new electric vehicle technology, which in turn would reduce carbon output drastically.  This technology will also highlight the vehicles that are no longer fuel efficient.  It is worth installing a telematics system in your vehicle so you too can do your bit for the environment.

The Logistics Carbon Reduction Scheme is an industry-led approach endorsed by the FTA, looking to reduce carbon emissions from freight transport.  The scheme offers benefits to operators with cost reduction and efficiency improvements and there are annual reports on the progress of the participants.  The five efficiency indicators include fuel efficiency improvements, better commercial vehicle utilisation, use of alternative low-carbon fuels, less carbon intensive supply chains and use of low carbon transport modes.  This type of scheme could have a hugely positive impact on how logistics are managed in the future.

Whether you run a business or just run your own private car, the most obvious solution is to go straight to the source, and that’s the type of fuel you use.  Whatever vehicle you drive, why not opt for green fuel types?  If you have a petrol vehicle you could have it altered so it can run on LPG (liquid petroleum gas) which is used in camping stoves.  The conversion may be pricey but the benefits outweigh the costs when you’ve got a car that runs on cheap fuel.  The option for a diesel user is biodiesel, made from recycled vegetable oil.

The simplest and easiest way to help reduce your carbon footprint is to adapt to an efficient driving habit that is eco-friendly.  For example, don’t go beyond the speed limit to avoid emitting extra CO2 into the environment; this goes hand in hand with being safe on the road too.

Whatever road you choose to take, make sure it involves a reduced carbon footprint!

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Strategies for Surviving Holiday Dinners, Family Events and Other War Zones

No matter how well we may have weathered our basic training, nothing can fully prepare us for the front lines of family gatherings. We're in the thick of it, dodging live ammunition, and fighting the urge to return to our old, reliable patterns that helped us to survive while we were growing up. We may have mastered our relationship skills in one-on-one relationships. We may have improved our romantic relationships, our professional relationships and our friendships. And we may have even improved our family relations – one family member at a time. But when we're sitting around the holiday dinner table or socializing at a wedding reception with our entire family, it's an entirely different experience.

For one thing, when we're with our entire family, we have to juggle a number of different relationships at the same time. Our attention is divided at best, and for many of us, our awareness deserts us completely after the first major skirmish. We feel like we're surrounded and have to defend ourselves from sneak attacks. We often feel that retreat is not an option. When we are cornered, we often believe that the only way that we can survive is to fight our way out, new relationship skills be damned.

While most people assume that General Sherman was referring to the Civil War when he stated, "War is hell," in fact, he was referring to a particularly memorable Thanksgiving dinner with his family. This also explains why he could send his troops into battle without a second thought, but that the very mention of cranberry sauce would reduce him to tears.

Bearing this in mind, here are some essential tips for surviving your next family gathering.

TIP # 1: Go Easy On Yourself!

The first, and most important survival tip is to remember that navigating and surviving family gatherings takes exceptional skill and often quite a bit of practice. We will not be able to transform our entire family dynamic between the course course and the pumpkin pie. In fact, we may not be able to change our family dynamic at all – and it's important that we accept that we do not need to. It's not our responsibility to help our family members resolve their issues. We're only responsible for resolving our responses to their issues. Our objective is to maintain our own safety and validation accounts, focus our awareness, and survive the family event reasonably unscathed.

However, maintaining our awareness while we're relating to our families takes practice! We must go easy on ourselves. We may react when we would rather respond. We may be drawn into old arguments. Whatever happens, we need to accept that it is perfect. We are doing our best, and that's all we can ever ask of ourselves. And remember that our awareness that we're acting out an old pattern is, in itself, a change in that pattern! As we develop our awareness, we will spend less time in our old patterns. Over time, our awareness will help us to make lasting and permanent changes in those patterns.

Tip # 2: Go Easy On Your Family

This piece of advice is equally as important as going easy on ourselves, but it's often a bit more challenging to follow. Essentially, we must be willing to forgive our relatives for everything. We must be able to accept that they only ever did the best they could at any given time. We need to begin to recognize and relate to our families as people instead of as family members. We need to begin to know them for who they are, and not simply for who they are to us.

When we embrace the truth that even our family members are individualized aspects of All That Is, our relationships with our families will shift dramatically. Our family members are some of the most powerful teachers we will ever encounter in our lives. They also tend to be the most accurate and powerful mirrors for us, which, of course, is why we often find it so difficult to love and accept our family members unconditionally. In order to love our family members, we would also need to be able to love and accept ourselves.

Even so, we can love our family members unconditionally and still only choose to sit down to eat with them once a year.

Tip # 3: Use The Bathroom As A Sanctuary When Needed

In our other relationships, we can usually recognize when we feel unsafe and move to a safe space so we can disengage our egos. Once we restore the balance in our safety account, we can return to the discussion and explore it without feeling threatened – and without exceeding our partner in return. When we feel unsafe in our family relations, however, many of us feel that we're obliged to stay and fight. This is simply not the case.

When we are aware that we feel triggered by a family member, we can simply choose to excise ourselves and visit the bathroom. The bathroom is the one place that we can be assured of our privacy, and we can stay there as long as we need to. We can use the bathroom as a sanctuary where we can regain our composition and gather our strength so that we feel safe enough to return to the battle. If any of our family members are indelicate enough to comment on how much time we seem to be spending in the bathroom, we can always plead an upset stomach or a weak bladder.

Tip # 4: Lose The Battle To Win The War

We have to be very clear about our objectives in terms of our family relations. If our ultimate goal is to improve our family relationships, we have to be willing to stay focused on the big picture. The most difficult lesson for most of us to accept is that in order to win the war, we have to be willing to lose the battle. Our long-term objective is to feel more safe and more validated in our family relationships. To reach this goal, we must help our family members feel safe and validated. In order to do this, we must be absolutely clear that we are capable of meeting our own safety and validation needs.

We often experience our families as competitive environments. Our old blueprints tell us that there's a limited amount of safety and validation available, and that we must compete with the other members of our family to meet our needs. We include and snipe at each other because we can only feel safe and validated if the balance in our accounts is greater than the balance in everyone else's accounts. The more we care about approaching other people's approval and validation, the more vulnerable we are. When one of our family members makes a comment designed to make us feel less valid, we do not need to defend ourselves. We can recognize that this person is asking to be validated, and we can validate them. Sometimes, this means letting them think that we are less successful, accomplished, and generally wonderful than we really are.

We must be willing to lose every single family argument we encounter. Letting our family members win the argument allows them to feel safe and validated. As long as we remember that we create our own safety and validation, and we do not need to compete with our family members, we can lose the argument because it will help us to win the war. We must let our family members believe that they are right about whatever the issue is, no matter how blatantly wrong they actually are.

We know the truth. That will have to be enough for us.

Tip # 5: Always, Ever, Never

If we want to refer to our family members as they are now and not as we remember them being in the past, we must eliminate three words from our vocabulary: always, ever and never. In the lexicon of family "discussions," always, ever and never are relationship air-raid sirens. They signal that an attack has been launched and it's time to duck and cover. Specifically, we must avoid some of our favorite statements in our family relationships such as, "You always have this way," "When have you ever supported me?" And "You never give me any credit." If we find ourselves using any of these words in a similar context, it's a red flag that we're focused on the past and not on the present. Likewise, when our family members use these words about us, they're related to us as we were, not as we are.

As soon as we become aware that we are using these words, we must stop. It's likely that our use of these words has made our family member feel unsafe and invalid. We can apologize for having used one of these words, and acknowledge that we have been unfair. Something about the current discussion has triggered an unpleasant association for us. If appropriate, we can rephrase the statement, keeping it specific to the present.

If we're on the receiving end of always, ever, never statements, we can choose to respond, rather than to react. In the middle of a family get-together, the wisest choice is often to deflect the statement, sometimes even acknowledgment that the statement may have some validity when applied to the past, and then change the subject. If the discussion has unrecognized an old wound, the wound will still be there for us to heal at a more appropriate time and in a more appropriate environment.


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I was slightly saddened when I learned of screenwriter director Nora Ephron's passing yesterday right after I woke up. She had been ill with leukemia for a while.

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Growing up, I always had this secret fondness for romantic comedies, a true rom-com sucker. Perhaps it was the type of escapist entertainment that appealed most to a lovelorn soul like me. Suffering so much from a string of heartbreaks and unrequited love, being transported to a fairy tale-like world of a romantic comedy where a man can just win the heart of a woman with persistence, sincerity and genuine love, all those big romantic moments could easily make my heart flutter.

The very first Nora Ephron film I saw was MICHAEL (1996), starring John Travolta, which I didn't know was a Nora Ephron film until I checked her Wikipedia page just now. I saw it in the cinema with my dad, I didn't think much of the film because it had a downer ending which felt inconsistent with the rest of the film. That year John Travolta was in a couple of films, like PHENOMENON and BROKEN ARROW, I preferred these two films much more and remembered MICHAEL as the weakest among the three Travolta film that came out in 1996. I was 12.

3 years later, I saw YOU'VE GOT MAIL (1998) in Los Angeles Las Vegas. It was a Christmas vacation with family. That was, to date, my last trip in the United States of America, I cannot really believe that I haven't been there for 14 years either. (from the age of 7 to 12, I went there almost every other year)

I was quite fond of YOU'VE GOT MAIL, because it transported me to a world where, as long as you've met your soul-mate, it really didn't matter that you have, er, put her out of business. Well, okay, I was probably less cynical then.

The final scene, when SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW played in the background, my heart skipped a beat. Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan had so much chemistry.

Ahem, watching it now, my eyes still watered a little. Urgh, I'm such a sap.

But let me move on.

Another few years later, on the night of a lonely Valentine's Day, towards the end of my high school years or the beginning of my college years (I cannot remember which) when I popped in the DVD of WHEN HARRY MET SALLY (1989), which was written by Ephron. Through the course of the film, I found myself very emotionally invested in the Harry (Billy Crystal) and Sally (Meg Ryan) characters.

Most people remember it for its hilarious fake orgasm scene.

Me, again, I was elevated by its ending.

It's almost a little tragic, for a hopeless romantic to watch a romantic comedy, hoping that in reality, such heartfelt confessions of love can actually yield something in return. But they usually don't happen.

I wish I could write about SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE (1993), which I watched only once, shortly after WHEN HARRY MET SALLY, but my memories of it are very vague. I remember some very affecting moments, but somehow I could never forget WHEN HARRY MET SALLY.

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My habit has fallen by the wayside, this one-time music reviewing that I used to do. That said, I’d be remiss if I didn’t say a couple few words about the Leon Redbone show I flew out to see in Denver last weekend. I used to annoy him on a fairly regular basis to come to my city and, two months after moving from it, he lands there, with hardly a hint of fanfare. I missed it, obviously, but Colorado beckoned a couple weeks later and I just didn’t want to miss my shot. Luckily, this time, I didn’t.

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The feeling was that he’d invited us to his time gone by: it was like clambering into a time machine. Like Tiny Tim before him, his desire to expose music that was no longer heard and rarely played (much of it coming right out of the 30s and earlier) seemed to cast him as someone stuck in an era most in the crowd either hadn’t experienced themselves or had forgotten about. And he did it in such a way that we felt he belonged exactly where he was. He wasn’t a new musician playing old songs as much as he was a well-preserved musician playing what came the easiest.

And, for a recluse of a singer with the voice that occasionally sounds like he’s got a frog permanently lodged in his throat, the intrigue factor was high. Yes, we enjoyed and smiled our faces off, especially when he’d continually joke that the next song was a sing-a-long number (though none ever really were). Even those working the merch table (with no new album to offer up) were wont to ask those in the room how old he was, a bit of information he’s deliberately chosen to never reveal. And, in the end, it didn’t much matter.

With a few tips of his hat using his cane and a quick grin before he disappeared, we left knowing little more about him than we did before he appeared. Still, that was okay. For the time we had him around, we may as well have all been gathered in front of a large radio in the pre-TV era, soaking it all in. We’d come for a show and Leon gave us one.

Fair Thee Well, indeed.

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