It’s oh so quiet... fresh thinking on night-time deliveries

For many companies in the fresh produce sector, the fringe benefits of night-time deliveries - greater supply chain reliability, lower transport costs and smaller carbon footprints - are well known. Less commonly known are the methods by which the potentially anti-social corollary of making out-of-hours deliveries, namely noise pollution, can be almost entirely negated. Natalie Chapman of the Freight Transport Association (FTA) explains why late night and early morning deliveries need not leave local residents reaching for their earplugs