Confidence in the UK logistics sector is at its highest point since the second half of 2015 according to the latest Barclays and Moore Stephens UK Logistics Confidence Index. The research is undertaken twice a year by specialist research agency Analytiqa and involves more than 100 senior decision-makers from the industry. The index currently stands…
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The amount of time it takes for a vehicle and driver to arrive at a site, deliver a consignment, pick up when necessary and move on can be one of the most important factors in keeping a fleet on schedule. For transport managers, understanding these times across the many sites visited is vital. Having a…
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One of the biggest challenges faced by transport operators is how to achieve driver engagement with the telematics system they have in place. Where driver engagement can be successfully achieved, results are proven to be better and more sustained, leading to reduced operating costs, better safety levels and all the other benefits telematics brings. The other challenge…
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Microlise now captures seven billion miles worth of driving data every year in the UK. Whilst customers use this data within their own systems to drive forward efficiencies around safe and economic driving, journey management and electronic proof of delivery, the capacity for Microlise to be able to do something with these large volumes of…
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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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