Logistics Skills Alliance at Fuels in Action - Live - LSA

LSA with TfL LoCity – centre stage to talk alternative fuel vehicles, vans and trucks.

LSA, Logistics Skills Alliance were at the TfL LoCity annual Motor Transport Fuel in Action event. Headline speakers reported below, two photo galleries - inside and out - and the first report of the event survey to find how you shop online.

A full house, five hundred registered guests on the Heathrow doorstep, An explanation of all things clean air for the pending ULEZ regs, April 2019.

Alternative fuels is an answer to clean air, but driver training and consolidating deliveries is also the answer.

There was a big speaker line-up, three parallel seminars, all opened by TRL, the govt's Transport Research Laboratory. Then operator speakers took charge to talk real world experience of the new-style vehicles; refuelling hydrogen and getting the most miles out of electric in the cold weather with the heaters on.

If you missed it, LSA have set up two quick photo tours,

-A photo gallery inside of exhibitors from charging infrastructure to hydrogen, driver training with the LSA and even FORS

-A second photo gallery outside of the vehicles, vans and trucks from hydrogen to electric and heavy gas.

LSA asked the questions of how you shop online; how do we get the deliveries green and clean ?

The LSA team also dished out the knowledge of clean air driver training. – get your levy to pay for it.

Logistics Skills Alliance took a centre stage stand at LoCITY, TfL event. LSA chair Carl Lomas is also the TfL LoCity light vehicle group chair, Lomas spoke final mile solutions beyond alternative fuels with thoughts on consolidation and training. How do we drive these new hybrid vehicles to achieve fuel use success ?

The LSA team were on hand to showcase driver to management CPC courses and the new levy quals for transport freight forwarding and express. It was a packed stand all day as operators took the knowledge they needed for alternative fuel, levy, training and clean air solutions.

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Jo, Abi and Nina were talking shop on levy lock-down while the rest of the LSA team asked the guests 'what is this person called an apprentice ?' How will the next generation apprentice drive these alternative fuel vehicles ?

The Big speaker line-up for logistics solutions at TfL LoCity Fuels in Action March 21^st

Anxiety about electric van charge & is hydrogen just a top-up electric van ?

The big speaker line-up headlined this week for final mile with Citysprint to McDonalds. The talk was alternative fuel vehicle solutions. Operators local and national explored a wide range of market-ready and emerging new technology for vans and HGVs. Transport research laboratory TRL opened each of the three tier parallel seminars before handing over to real world operators using gas and electric vehicles on the road near you. Some key extracts below and more on the LSA web.

Andy Salter, Motor transport – ‘Different Horsepower Today’

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Motor transport boss, Andy Salter Welcomed the Logistics Skills alliance and 500 registered guests to LoCity Kempton Park Fuels in Action event. ‘Today is a journey to the culmination of alternative fuels with a packed itinerary of seminars. Electric Gas Hydrogen. Renewable vehicles. Different Horse Power today.’

Citysprint talked Hydrogen – ‘It's an electric with hydrogen top-up’

Ali Kagalwalla Citysprint commented 'everything starts with Why?' Citysprint have taken a multi-fuel approach for urban to long distance. It is important to do the trials. Innovation will promote better air quality, promote change and align with client thinking.

Citysprint are trialling the Kangoo ZE H2 around the M25 area with a view to trialling longer distances. It took a year to arrive from order. Our OLEV grant was successful but you need to plan in advance. The vehicle cost is high, £50k means one hydrogen equals four petrol, whilst refuelling infrastructure is small other challenges are the driver open mindedness, order timescale and maintenance. Getting as many drivers and staff trained is important to success.

‘In reality our hydrogen van is an electric vehicle with a Hydrogen top-up extension capability and we look forward to seeing that reverse. One size does not fit all. ‘

O'Donovan Waste spoke electric van charge anxiety.

Jacqui O'Donovan - 90 HGVs and 5 depots in London - improving green is about advancing staff skills and sharing knowledge for fuel efficient driving. We have a Berlingo 100% electric and benefit from zero congestion charge. ‘It’s a very smooth drive.’ Anxiety is the big issue for drivers, will they get home ? We are getting around seventy miles, but using the heater in the cold weather is a challenge to the security of having enough power to see the driver home.

John Lewis using Biotherme gas power vans.

Justin Laney. General Manager of John Lewis Fleet described the journey they had taken to refresh their fleet with Biotherme Gas renewable fuel. Seven year challenge as buying Gas-only vehicles has been difficult. 53 of a 500 fleet today. Fuel duty is set till 2024 which is important for business case and infrastructure decisions. A gas vehicle's range is now 500 miles achievable, so you don't have to choose which vehicle to use. Reduction by 83% in CO₂, 35% in fuel cost and 50% in noise reduction. Matched by refrigeration trailer units it is a perfect vehicle for urban operations. Happily this is also available in the small 35cwt van.

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How do logisticians shop on-line ? Hold the front page...

The LSA asked logisticians how they shop online at the LoCity TfL Kempton Park event yesterday. LSA asked a twenty question set of how, when, why and what logisticians shopped for on-line. The reward for the logistics professionals was a Curly Wurly chocolate bar to fend off the cold Heathrow air outside.

First result figures hot off the press.

Click-and-collect and drop-box scored low. Logistics visitors at LoCity TfL told the LSA they want final mile delivery to their home, they want delivery window advice inside a two hour window and 79% said speed of delivery is a key factor.

84% of logisticians want delivery of Goods to Home
76% answered Delivery Cost is the factor that is important and very important
79% Delivery Speed is the key factor to e-retail home delivery
77% wanted delivery period notice inside a 1-2 hour window

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