Recently 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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This week marked the launch of a brand new group for the road transport industry called She’s RHA, which aims to address the acute shortage of women in road transport. According to the RHA, there are just 44,000 women in the workforce of a total of 2.2 million working in the industry. The association says that the resulting imbalance…
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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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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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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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