The Senior Traffic Commissioner’s guidance documents have been updated this month – with a number of key changes transport operators should be aware of. They’ve been amended following a consultation with industry and stakeholders. The revisions include: new guidance on the importance of continuous professional development clearer guidance on what will happen if someone uses…
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Graduates form an important part of our recruitment process. At Microlise we’re always on the lookout for talented software developers to work with new technologies and tools in our quest to innovate and build industry-leading products. Our developers work with some of the latest tools like docker, hadoop and Xamarin. We know that technology advances…
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According to a report released by the National Audit Office there are risks to UK border operations if the UK leaves the EU without an agreement on 29 March 2019. And it says that even with a withdrawal agreement, significant challenges lie ahead to ensure the UK border is fully functioning. Ongoing political uncertainty and…
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It’s the Conservative Conference again and at least two extraordinary things happened as the party political event climaxed with the Prime Minister’s speech. Firstly, the PM “boogied” on to the stage to the unmistakable Swedish melodies of Abba – not something you see every day, every conference, or even every decade. And secondly she committed…
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It’s been two years since FORS released an update to its bronze, silver and gold standards – but the time has come for v5.0 which is being released this month to take effect in fleet audits from 14 January 2019. One noteworthy introduction is the bronze requirement for transport operators to have counter terrorism policies…
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So that’s it then… we’re off to Zambia for Transaid’s big cycle challenge in two days. That is, me, and a team of seven other Microlise colleagues including all sorts of characters from marketing, software development, field engineering and sales. Putting my name on the list as a potential Microlise “athlete” in early 2017, I was fairly…
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Telematics has come a long way since the first rudimentary systems became prevalent on our highways just less than two decades ago. The early telematics solutions were primarily used to monitor vehicle location, but the technology has moved forward rapidly in the past decade and is now much more sophisticated, creating significant opportunities for road…
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This summer the government published its Road to Zero strategy document. In it, it has set out the ‘devil in the detail’ as it aims to put the UK at the forefront of the design and manufacture of zero emission vehicles, while reducing emissions from conventional vehicles. In doing so it highlights that there is…
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There are a growing number of items in the truck cab competing for dashboard real estate and until now none of them were permitted to encroach the swept area of the windscreen by more than 40mm. This has, in the past, made it a challenge when placing forward facing cameras on the windscreen to ensure…
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NFU Mutual, the UK’s leading rural insurer, has released its annual Rural Crime Report, based on claims data gathered from 300 agent offices across the UK. The report offers insights into the financial impact of rural crime and the impact it has on those affected. The report states that the cost of rural crime was…
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Royal Assent has been given to the new The Haulage Permits and Trailer Registration Act, which has been introduced as part of the preparation for the UK’s departure from the EU next year. The act relates to an operator permit scheme, and gives the government the ability to create one should it be required once the…
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No technology blog would be complete without the obligatory reference to Big Data. While it is a hyped term, there’s no doubt that it does offer the potential to supercharge the value proposition of telematics. Not in the distant future, but very soon. In the UK alone there were a total of 180,248 drivers on…
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