Would you get on a pilotless plane? According to a recent press release the day when we will see driverless trucks out on the roads grows closer. Who would have thought we’d be talking about driverless LGVs? Are they really driverless, it’s a play on words in my opinion; it’s really an advancement on adaptive cruise control.…
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From the moment the opening sting video leapt onto the screens in front of the thousand-strong transport audience, the Microlise Transport Conference had a life of its own. Meandering through an agenda featuring a very broad church of speakers from Jim Davidson OBE to Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal, the topics for the day…
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While not strictly a product, this month we wanted to focus our insight on the benefits realisation team here at Microlise. It’s a service available to all of our customers, delivered by our dedicated and experienced team of experts who have been involved with hundreds of projects. The technology is in place right now for transport operators to improve…
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If you listen to the many economic pundits who are forecasting a potentially negative outcome of the forthcoming EU referendum; together with the effect on the world economy of the current downturn in China and the rise in oil pricing, you may come to a conclusion that the business world has entered an unprecedented age…
Read blogRecently I had the pleasure of visiting one of our industries roadside facilities – commonly known as a transport café in the old days, though we appear to be going American these days and calling them Diners. Oh well, I digress a little. It was whilst there I happened to overhear a conversation on the…
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Delivering an in-cab device that makes drivers’ lives easier has been behind the development of our 7” Android-based DriveTab device. The Microlise DriveTab is a ruggedised touch screen driver communications tablet which is ideally suited to third party logistics operators and transport service providers with a large number of trunking operations, bulk deliveries or palletised…
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With an aging workforce and an often quoted lack of new talent coming into transport & logistics, our industry is said to be facing a ticking demographic time bomb. The looming driver deficit is already pushing up costs, both financial and in more abstract ways, and making workforce planning a constant pressure for many companies.…
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With less than four months to go until Europe’s largest road transport conference, we’ve been building the conference agenda and adding lots of exciting new elements for 2016. Within the last month, Lesley O’Brien, Founder Member She’s RHA and Andrew Jones MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at Department for Transport, have both come on board…
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What does Fleet Performance mean to you? Delivering your service to customers better, faster, cheaper, in a more intelligent way? Is it about increased utilisation of your fleet – reducing empty loads out on the roads? Or improving the performance of your drivers and making sure the highest compliance standards are met and exceeded? Is the…
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Gareth Llewellyn has been appointed as the new Chief Executive of the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA). Llewellyn brings substantial experience having held senior global roles with both National Grid plc and Anglo American plc and has led businesses through a number of mergers and acquisitions. As Group Safety, Technical and Engineering Director for…
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The issue of a driver shortage has been with the industry for many years so I am surprised that the real causes are not more generally addressed. Should the debate not focus more on the quality, focus and willingness of the industry to TRAIN DRIVERS and invest in technology that will support such training? Commitment…
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In part 1 of this blog I discussed the benefits of events such as DSEI. With that event now in the dim and distant past, I wanted to complete this by discussing some of the challenges we have faced in our attempts to bring a COTS solution in to service. Dealing with the MOD can…
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