Peterborough bin collection company working with bus operators to get recruitment staff to work safely

Peterborough company Aragon Direct Services is working with bus operators to help a city based recruitment agency get its staff to work safely.
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The recruitment company - which has not been named by Peterborough City Council - provides transport for its workers to get to and from food production factories in Chatteris and Spalding.

When Covid-19 social distancing guidelines were brought in it was finding it difficult to fully adhere to them as it did not have enough vehicles in its fleet.

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Peterborough City Council’s trading company Aragon Direct Services, which collects waste and maintains green spaces in the city, heard about this and wanted to offer its three home-to-school buses which were not being used.

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However, it did not have enough available drivers to help and also needed the permission of the company it leases the buses from for the change in use.

A solution appeared just a few days later after Whippet Coaches agreed to lend some of its drivers and Dawsongroup bus and coach agreed to allow permission for the vehicles to be used at no extra charge.

City councillor Mohammed Farooq, chairman of Aragon Direct Services, said: “The recruitment company was doing all it could to ensure its essential workers were able to get to work to produce food for others to eat, however, it was really struggling to maintain the guidelines around social distancing due to a lack of vehicles.

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“When we heard about this, we wanted to do all we could to help and, just a few days later, with the help of Whippet and Dawsongroup bus and coach, we came up with a solution. I’d like to thank both companies for working with us so quickly to enable this to happen.”