Logistics Skills Alliance launch 2025 Logistics Vision - a national platform
Commercial Vehicle Safety: North West Challenges & Opportunities
‘Commercial Vehicle Safety: The Challenges & Opportunities’
Logistics Skills Alliance were in the North West for the Highways England road safety summit.
Education and safety are at the heart of the road safety ethos of the commercial drivers working in logistics.
Many of the core value training opportunities lie in the new logistics trailblazer qualifications; they are free under levy for your drivers and ready for delivery.
LSA Chairman Carl Lomas got the keynotes from Haydock Park for the LSA web news, getting the logistics message out to the sector.
Whistl has announced that it is trialling the first electric Renault Master ZE to be licenced on UK roads.
The all-electric 3.1 tonne van has a range of around 100 miles and is being trialled in Belfast by Whistl on day-to-day operations, collecting business mail and parcels.
IMHX Logistics ‘A list’ trade show – Biggest-ever, as LSA meet Helix the sortation robot,
LSA Chairman Carl Lomas brings you keynotes, photo tour, or still time to visit, with the first-day summaries for IMHX at the NEC.
Van drivers – the silent professionals
One in ten vehicles on the road is a van - 4 million vans
Vans equal £56 billion of UK economy.
LSA at Silverstone this week to look at how we can address the challenge of vans on our roads with Highways England. Highways, a shared showcase of all things road from cone trucks to speed cameras, vans at the heart of it.
LSA were in Manchester today Tuesday 10th Sept for the TfGM keynote
Manchester, Trafford Park logistics homeland for a run on the M60 to the rugby stadium of AJ Bell for a well attended Motor Transport Clean Air roadshow.
Trucks showcasing gas in the car park, a busy micro-table trade show and a long room full house seminar room shadowed with green roof lights to set the mood for compliant emissions and green transport
Motor transport, Hayley Pink delivered the H&S, ‘turn left onto the rugby field if the alarm calls’
Three short workshops, gas, electric & euro 6 with a free lunch.
An exclusive review from TfL to Corporation of London on congestion, kerbside, compliance and clean air for logistics.
The ‘A’ list diary slot for logistics at the NEC.
LSA chair Carl Lomas and the LSA team followed the map showcase of all things logistics.
Blue carpets and yellow bags adorned the NEC for the A list logistics, road, rail, air and sea showcase of the sector. LSA were on the blue carpets to bring you and exclusive photo gallery of the event for those who did not make the Birmingham run.
Talk was driver CPC & legislation - from export and freight forwarding to express final mile delivery speed.
Take a tour of the show from your laptop on our exclusive LSA Gallery below...
Our next generation workforce in Logistics
Strategic transport apprenticeship taskforce diversity event
86 logistics employers in the room.
‘Inclusion of workforce for logistics in a modern business’
Jasmine Matthias meets Thor Johansen of all-electric micro-delivery vehicle Paxster.
‘Saving fifteen minutes an hour in delivery cycles’
LSA at the TfL LoCITY event Palestra House SE1
Jasmine Matthias, taking a look at the keynotes, Dachser and Paxster, from consolidation solutions to time-saving on operational movements of the mini vehicle, it's all electric.
LSA met Sainsbury’s, IKEA, Addison Lee, TNT, Ocado and Rexel amongst a full house road-focused logistics event last week.
LSA walk the blue carpets of Microlise at the Ricoh Coventry Arena to bring you an exclusive freight photo tour.
Double Special - LSA bring you keynote summary for Amazon, Google and Penning.
Logistics Skills Alliance were in Coventry this week for the largest freight logistics conference in Europe. Not just a conference but a focused tech exhibition too, adding up to a logistics diary with the national freight driver awards.
LSA chair, Carl Lomas got the selfie at the front door on the way into a unique event; take a look at his summary of the keynotes below.
LSA were in Birmingham at the CV Show.
Take an exclusive gallery photo tour here on the LSA web.
Walking the red carpet of the NEC aisles of the CV Show, trucks sparse in the land of the van; CV is Van King - a hands-on opportunity.
Seeing red; red Royal Mail vans on the VW stand to a smart red brand new Vauxhaull launch van.
Lots of electric; LDV zero emission with a smooth box shape taking centre stage on a rotating stand.
A British Superbike, Hawk Buildbase Suzuki machine, loads of spannering kit and acres of tech amongst tyres and loading systems. Old amongst the new, crazy cool old Citroen garlic delivery van beside the latest EVS.
Very latest EVs was a showcase Paxster, final mile electric from DPD.
Nigel Base, SMMT talks CV Show at the NEC,
This year’s event is one of the best ever. A raft of major new products, including the new Vauxhall Vivaro, Ford Ranger, 2.0-tonne Transit and LDV EV30 will all make their public début.’ Once again innovation will be a central theme of the show. Virtually every manufacturer and supplier will be showing off its latest high-tech solutions to make commercials and light commercials cleaner and more efficient. There will also be plenty of huge advances in areas such as in-cab connectivity, telematics, driver monitoring and real-time analytics.
Exclusive photo gallery below, take a walk of the NEC aisles to review the latest electric and diesel vans
TfGM Manchester freight – the fifth annual event
LSA Chairman, Lomas delivers Logistics Client Chain keynote in Manchester
LSA were in the north west, logistics heartland of Manchester for the TfGM, Greater Manchester fifth annual freight forum. Big operator turnout included, Yodel, UPS, Hermes and DPD amongst the key express nationals.
Lorna McAtear, Royal Mail, ‘We are investing 7 million in new compliant delivery vehicles’. We are trialling everything from LNG, CNG and even e-bikes.’
The Manchester event focused on informing and engaging the Freight sector on the Outline Business Case for the TfGM Manchester Clean Air Plan.
Megan Black spoke for Manchester. Tracey Worth talked inclusion of millennials to the logistics workforce alongside DWP Job Centre Plus guru Alex Farkas.
Carl Lomas, Logistics Skills Alliance Chairman delieverd the keynote for express freight as he looked at Client Chain driven decisions in e-retail purchase for final mile delivery. The famous pineapple doorstep delivery challenged the audience to the morality of what home delivery could be sent to the office in a question of consolidation..
The full house TfGM freight event delivered a cracking lunch and a magic mix of multi-modal operators. The TfGM target was to engage logistics industry operators and it delivered with final mile excellence from heavy LGV to two wheels and walking post.
The forum with over fifty individual operators in the room, generated a better understanding of freight operations in GM. Informing and identifying future needs and the development of potential interventions, Megan Black, TfGM, ‘clean air at the heart of it.'
