Trade News Round-up

As always, the Countrystyle Trade Department has been busy and investment has continued in vehicles, with three new 32 tonne DAF trade trucks and being put into service for the Ridham Trade Operations.

We are continuing to add to our fleet with four additional new 26 tonne Scania trade trucks which are due to be delivered towards the end of July. We have also taken delivery of three new 32 tonne DAF RORO trucks.

• Bins and collection services were delivered for the Elderflower Fields festival at Pippingford Park, Nutley over the May Bank Holiday weekend.

• Collection services were provided through the May Bank Holiday weekend to the Kent Showground at Detling, for their annual Kent Garden Show, with up to 20,000 visitors attending over the weekend.

• Bins and collection services are being provided for Park Live at Mote Park, Maidstone from May Bank Holiday weekend and onwards through the summer.

• Emergency response services were provided to Morrisons’ Distribution Centre for two weeks in March, after a site fire caused the breakdown of their balers. For around 2 weeks, trade vehicles were sent to site to be continuously loaded, to help clear the site of 378 tonnes of cardboard and 23 tonnes of plastic waste which was then sent for recycling.

The Trade team was delighted to help Tonbridge School with its charity sleepout, in support of the homeless charity, Porchlight: children from the school slept out overnight, with the cardboard from their individual shelters collected by Countrystyle and sent for recycling.

Welcome to the Ridham team!

New Starters and Promotions

Countrystyle has recently welcomed some new faces to the Trade Department. Richard Cooper joins as Head of Logistics, with extensive knowledge of the waste management industry, and a warm welcome to Jac Young who joins as a refuse loader with our Ridham Trade team.

Congratulations to Katy Eastwood who has been promoted to Head of Artics. We wish them all well in their new roles.

HR Updates

Fundraising for the Pickering Cancer Trust based in Tunbridge Wells has been very successful, and we want to thank everyone who has got involved, especially Lisa Barnes who continues to come up with fun fundraising ideas to continue to add to the donations which currently stand at over £650.00.

The Management Development Programme which has been running through Imaginarium has been a huge success.

A well done to Bexley for continued improvement of customer service KPI results.

£650 raised so far!

Acknowledgement for Good Drivers

Whilst we continue to improve fleet compliance standards across the business, eleven drivers have been successful in not incurring any tachograph infringements across the last 12 months (despite each having over 200 days of driving).

Andrew Johnson

Phil Baverstock

Roy Harper

Chris Orchard

David Heard

Nathan Smith

Stewart Wicks

Barry Vincent

£££

Lee Baverstock

Paul Gynne

Drew McArthur

Congratulations to the above drivers who received a £25 shopping voucher as a reward from Countrystyle for their fantastic driving!