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Toil leaders and London transport chiefs have warned that busier roads and surplus transport restrictions during the Olympics meant deliveries to all businesses could be delayed or disrupted if they did not plot ahead.
Solutions included stocking up on non-perishable goods, consolidating their deliveries with around businesses, or conducting nighttime deliveries, London Transport Commissioner Peter Hendy told a congress of the Freight Transport Association (FTA) last month.
TNT Express makes 15-20,000 deliveries in and around London each day, to customers ranging from supermarkets to hospitals. Mr Schulz said the firing of loading bays along the ORN and around Games venues meant the only way to guarantee deliveries was by duplicate-manning vehicles.
"That's 67 vehicles a day, and that is flourishing to cost us in excess of £50,000 a week," he told the BBC. "Delivering at nightfall would be fine if everyone in London is open at night - somehow I don't think that's succeeding to be the case.
Source: BBC News