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Product Insight: Journey Management

At Microlise we’ve helped our customers benefit from greater vehicle utilisation, reduced CO2 per unit transported and better informed customers. These developments have benefited HGV transport operations where intelligent analysis of route and schedule adherence has led to significant improvements. To provide these opportunities for improvement, we’ve developed the Journey Management product which identifies how…

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Industry Insider: When Will it All End?

What’s happening to us! We are all moving in a downward spiral of complication, procrastination, separation, legislation, political correctness, and increasing process.This is in a world where technological advancements are supposed to be making life simpler, better, and in short more fun! In the uber-fast extreme world of ever changing, ever improving, and ever developing…

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HGV Driver Trailblazer Apprenticeship Given Go Ahead

The Business and Innovation Department has approved a new Large Goods Vehicle (LGV) apprenticeship Trailblazer scheme. Trailblazers refer to Apprenticeship Standards set by groups of employers who come together – in this case from the transport industry. Until recently there were a little more than 10 such Apprenticeships available, though LGV was not among them.…

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Product Insight: The Microlise Knowledge Portal

At Microlise we understand that to take advantage of the benefits our solutions offer, our customers need to understand how our systems work and how they are best used to maximise return on investment. The Knowledge Portal is Microlise’s ongoing investment to give  immediate access to a wealth of training content, designed to help you…

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“That’s SAFe!”
In the TV quiz show Bullseye, at the climax of the show, contestants had to choose to gamble the prizes already won on a chance to win the big prize. It was a big decision under pressure, but in order to reassure the contestants, every week Jim Bowen (the host) would say to the contestants…

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Product Insight: Electronic Proof of Delivery

  Having visibility across the supply chain, from the depot all the way through to the customer’s door, is fast becoming a must-have for many transport operations. Increasingly, there are demands on transport operators and sub-contractors to provide proof of customer collections. We are also seeing more complexity at the point of delivery with companies…

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Product Insight: Remote Digital Tachograph Download
A new generation of tachographs has hit the shelves and they are making life easier for drivers and fleet operators by reducing administration overheads, streamlining compliance and supporting timely and accurate reporting. The capability of the mobile network has caught up with demand and many fleet operators are now using it to download tacho data…

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Management of Change Vs Change of Management?

Organisational change is now a constant in many corporate environments. The rise in globalisation, combined with increased technological innovation, has revolutionised business. Increased ease of access to data and information and pressures brought about by the social media revolution has challenged not only traditional organisation structures, but also traditional management practices. Change management or management…

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Love The Lorry Week Support Much Needed

I’ve just read the latest e-newsletter from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) on the importance of lorries and road freight in our economy. Once again, it reminded me of the need for positive press around the great job that fleet operators do in keeping our nation fed, watered, clothed and fuelled. The…

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The Role of Technology in Compliance

Last week I spoke at the very well attended RHA Compliance Conference. During the presentation (available below), I looked at the potential for technology to ensure compliance and lead to performance improvements across an operator’s business with tachograph data, vehicle walk around checks, compliance, driving style and safety all discussed. During the conference the DVSA also unveiled…

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Product Insight: Safety Module
With safety rightly becoming an ever more important topic for fleet operators, we’ve developed a set of tools to not only reduce the severity and number of accidents, but also reduce the cost impact when claims do have to be made. Claiming quickly and having all of the evidence to hand when a claim does need…

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