Kidd's Distribution Services - KDS Distribution
Kidd's distribution services blog post aim to provide you with more information, advice and resources that will help you achieve your distribution needs. KDS Distribution is part of the KDS Group.
Positive feedback
Hi Tommy,
just a quick bit of feedback on the drivers.as you are aware my team have been nominated for the best of the best award . I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the drivers working in our store for all the hard work they do for our customers and for the care services team. I know Stevie,Rab,John and young David are the best of the best please feed this back to them.
ps. young David and Stevie also helped me move trolleys and cabinets without me having to ask.
thanks
I hope you all have a nice day
Mary
Posted by Tommy Gray on 29 June 2010 in : Kidd's Distribution Services - KDS Distribution
ROAD SAFETY JOURNEYS/STORIES
This week we focus on Road Safety Vehicle Aaron Turner with Tommy Tallach being the driver of this vehicle, Tommy on his day to day role covers areas such as Milngavie, Kirkintilloch, Cumbernauld and surrounding areas.
Tommy is fully committed in his role of Road Safety Driver for KDS and raises awareness for Road Safety each day and reports back all feedback from his week through meetings and photographs of his journeys. read below 1 of Tommys reports.
REACTIONS TO VEHICLE:
I went along to the shop at my house and asked the man behind the counter if i could talk to him about something that may or may not raise unpleasant memories for him. I made him aware of tthe fact that i drove a road safety vehicle and told him about the message my vehicle carried, i asked him what he thought about it and if there had been such things on tthe road before what had happened to him, did he think it would have made a difference...
He replied if someone had given him talks about this or these vehicles had been around his actions may never have happened.
Finally to let you know who this man is, a few years ago he was speeding on Renfrew Road where he knocked down a mother who was crossing the road with her child in a pram, the result being the death of a child.
Posted by Tommy Gray on 29 June 2010 in : Kidd's Distribution Services - KDS Distribution
Road Safety Vehicles
Day in Day out the Road Safety Team at KDS Group take their role very serious and are passionate about making the whole country aware of the dangers that are on our roads every day.
We at KDS have a team of 5 drivers who have taken on the responsibility of driving our road safety vehicles each of their working day, they then through structured meetings and reports give feedback during that week. This would include any comments made to them, any queries as what the vehicles stand for and what reaction they get from other road users. I will start sharing their reports and experiences each week, Also the team come back each week with photographs of their journey which can be seen in the gallery.
Alan Dunn drives the SLEEP APNOEA road safety vehicle, he covers the whole of Glasgow. please click on link for more details on Vehicle
Has their been any reaction from other road users/pedestrians: I had quite a few stares from members of the public this week, but one couple who asked if i was related to Toby, I said that i wasn't but my company KDS and myself are proud to be sponsors of Brake Road Safety charity and to raise awareness each day on the roads. Thev couple thought i had a personal reason for having Toby on the side of my van and stated that they were pleased to see a company raising awarreness for such a good cause without benefiting themselves. I also asked them to look at the selby crash side of the van and they both agreed that the story rang a bell. I thanked the couple for their time and asked them to log on to our website to sign the road safety petition.
Has their been any other reactions: Yes on Wednesday i was outside carehome when a large convoy of taxis came passing by they were tooting their horns and waving, The police had switched the lights off so as the taxis could all stay together. I stood waving as the taxis passed many of themdecorated when banners and streamers, i realised that it was the annual trip to Troon where the taxi drivers take disabled children out for the day it was wonderful, a thought crossed my mind wouldn't it be great if we done something for the kids to maybe supported the drivers by taking refreshments down this would enable everyone to raise more awareness by gaining some media attention........
How has the reaction been this week: It is always very positive
Posted by Tommy Gray on 24 June 2010 in : KDS Training, Kidd's Distribution Services - KDS Distribution
Managing your money with RBS & KDS
Financial hardship is an obvious potential problem if you lose your job, so it is worth facing up to this. At the KDS 4 week employment academy we prepare individuals who have been long term unemployed get ready to face the world of work once more.
We identified early on that it was great motivating and building up individuals confidence to get them back into work, however, if the challenge that is finance, still remains without identifying it, then it doesn’t matter how motivated someone is, they will not sustain employment. We therefore established a partnership with the RBS who had a successful programme for young adults and Children on how to manage their finances, aptly named “money sense”. We worked with the RBS to look at adopting this excellent programme to those who are currently unemployed and they did. Today we carried out a pilot with RBS and the consumer financial education body to provide one to one support to those individuals currently on our academy and it went a storm.
Edwin Finlayson a ‘money guide’ expert from the CFEB came along to day and providing the one to one assessments and provided each candidate with excellent advice for them to start managing their finances and prepare themselves for the challenges ahead when their benefits stop and they have to wait for a their first wage.
This is the start of a very fruitful partnership and will provide so many individuals with the much need advice and help to start to overcome this barrier...
Posted by Andrew Craig on 10 June 2010 in : KDS Training, KDS Youth Training, Kidd's Distribution Services - KDS Distribution, Training corporate, Training employability
Happy Birthday June 1st 2004 KDS was founded
It was June 1st 2004, the day was the same as today energy levels running extremley high, adrenalin flowing throughout my body and believing that anything was possible in life anything at all, one part that was different was scale of how I viewed the world, Scotland would have been sufficient to take over but if you have been following my story we all know who was responsible for that shift within me.
I was holding a job down in nightshift and would start my KDS business at 12:30hrs back then, it started with five pharmacies as I walked to my first KDS van at 12noon with my livery Kidds Distribution services Ltd and running man on side of van I cannot explain the feeling, I remember driving into Menzies Distribution the night before and managers were saying what you doing Stevie, I responded my future is not here guys, you see I was holding a job down at time of setting up the dream. Peoples faces stay with me to do this day, some people were saying wow Stevie you mean business, I looked at depot and said I will be more popular and as big as this organisation, may be even bigger, whats funny is Menzies even recruit from my training academies I developed which is seperate from KDS Distribution.
My sales earnings back then, first contract was £1700 a month sales, someone believed in me, a customer had said I believe in him, I remember finishing the first shift and reflecting, customers commenting on my standards, pharmacy saying WOW what a difference this is in service, I looked them in the eye and said I have only scratched the surface. When I parked van up I went into a transe and had this feeling of excitement come over me, my voice that had been talking to me all day had a good feeling attached to it, now heres the secret I just learned to only listen to that voice from that day forward, any other voice came in I smacked out the arena, I simply attached the voice to the feeling and said from this day forward this is who I listen to............................
Now when I got home I said to my wife this is start of new journey it will take me 5 years I said to gain respect in so many ways within business I need you to support me as at times it will be difficult but please just believe in me as I believe in myself, yes I have no bank account I have 230 pounds left for 6 weeks fuel, fuel was 67p a litre back then, planned that out until I got first invoice paid..............excitement, dreams, beliefs, proud, excellence,relationships, communication, high standards, more customers, more doors of opportunities, correct personnel for my company as I knew we would be growing, more importantly becoming more aware of my surroundings and picking up instantly on all opportunities coming my way, still loads to learn but eager for all to come at once.................
its been one hell of a journey from crossing the Atlantic a couple of times, to meeting amazing people in my life, have so many people to thank, but for me past is done and whats great about the future is that it is still to come, create your own opportunities and dreams, next 6 years looks amazing, KEEP WATCHING GUYS............................
Posted by Stevie Kidd on 01 June 2010 in : KDS Training, KDS Youth Training, Kidd's Distribution Services - KDS Distribution, Personal Enhancement, Road Safety, Training corporate, Training employability