As part of this high profile company’s commitment to CSS (corporate social responsibility), O’Donovan brought the Exchanging Places programme to the school – giving children the opportunity to get up close to HGVs.
Exchanging Places is run by the Met Police and City Police, putting cyclists in the cab of a lorry to help them view the road from the perspective of the driver - encouraging collaboration, mutual learning and understanding.
Throughout the day, 180 children – aged between 5-11 years old – took part in both classroom and playground-based activities designed to teach them the importance of road safety and the work that is being done to ensure safe logistics operations on London’s roads.
O’Donovan provided two trucks – a Leyland AEC from 1966 and a current Scania High Cab Roll on-off lorry.
O’Donovan recently unveiled a Mercedes Benz Econic low-entry cab 4x2 skip loader 1830L with previously unseen safety features, offering drivers radically better views of vulnerable road users.