Logistics Skills Alliance launch 2025 Logistics Vision - a national platform
Hosted at London Met University – Training and the new Trailblazers are part of the clean air solution.
Rob Scott GLH Asking the sustainability question about lithium supply chain & mining.
LSA chairman Carl Lomas chairs the TfL light vehicle LoCITY event, October session was hosted in the heart of the City of London at London Met University with Costa coffee breaks to talk all things express, final mile, last mile and question the ethics of lithium supply chain.
Carl Lomas chairing with Donata MacCrossan for TfL with DfT in the room for a varied discussion; tech to training, to review clean air as a success for everyone.
Operators, retailers and academics in the standing room only, hot house of all things clear air for final mile. Guests and group members from vehicle manufacturers including LDV to retailers, John Lewis & Sainsbury’s, a host of operators, Fedex, ZE Cargo, GLH, Mango, Addison Lee and more using all forms of energy, hydrogen, LPG, electric-only and hybrids.
Dwain McDonald, CEO of DPD commented, ‘This is a hugely significant announcement for us with Westminster set to be the first of a series of all-electric DPD depots.’
The new 5,000 sq ft facility on Vandon Street will be known as DPD Westminster and will have capacity to deliver 2,000 parcels a day utilising an all-electric fleet.
DPD has invested over £500,000 refurbishing the site including the introduction of a state-of-the-art electric charging system that will enable the deployment of electric vehicles without major infrastructure upgrades.
Using all-electric vehicles in both the inward feed of parcels to DPD Westminster, and the final mile deliveries, DPD will initially see a reduction of 45 tonnes of CO2 per annum. This will increase as more all-electric vehicles and depots are introduced into the DPD's all-electric network.
More than the trucks, version five, powered two wheels and vans.
Conference chairman, Brian Weatherley, ‘FORS is not standing still, it is growing and developing to help you deliver the very best practice.’
LSA were in Birmingham wearing blue FORS Lanyards for this week for a bacon sandwich breakfast at the National Motorcycle Museum. It was time to take a look at the FORS national conference exhibition and sit in on the keynotes and service provider’s exhibitions/surgeries.
Two wheels and vans find their way into the version five launch - it’s a decade on from the beginning of the standard. Updates across the grades of bronze, silver and gold and a true national footprint aimed at driver training, fleet safety and clean air. CLOCS and Driver Vision Standards all on the deliveries.
Taking a look at the future path for FORS, lessons from Parliament former MP, Robert Flello, founder of the Parliamentary Freight Transport Group
Warehouse skills challenge on the pallet trucks and seminar keynotes on apprenticeships in logistics.
In a green number plate week of top level logistics deals the Logistics Skills Alliance hosted the Heathrow chamber logistics showcase cargo and logistics (C&L) event at its dedicated Feltham warehouse delivering hands-on, real world logistics from fork truck to driver CPC. Heathrow expansion for freight, congestion at the horseshoe, Trailblazers, levy, sorting apprenticeships from express to LGV and freight forwarding all on the agenda.
Smell the gas and get charged in this hands-on event!
Sept 5th LoCITY 3rd annual Conference – LSA team are hands on all things alternative fuel, Van / HGV and policy across the board for LoCITY hosted by TfL. Free to attend, seminars and lunch free and car parking. A ride-and-drive event and an interactive debate on the day rich in LowCVP and chaired by Andy Eastlake.
This year's conference is delivered by GreenFleet and LSA are there to give you a full express final mile update.
Take a brief look at the live headlines and walk the vehicle gallery below.
Cycle to work day 2018. It first began in 2012 as a means of getting people to ditch their car in favour of two wheels and has now become a full-blown cycling celebration.
This year, Lomas hired a Santander bike at Euston to get to TfL meetings in SE1, joining more than 20,000 people who pledged to make their way to and from the office by bike.
Lomas used the cycle access for a very fast run down Gower Street, heading toward the Blackfriars bridge cycle super-highway and south of the river for TfL Palestra House.
I was able to keep up with the couriers making deliveries into the City, but the good news was the route was downhill.
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan,
I don’t accept that deaths and serious injuries on London’s roads are something we just have to put up with.Every single death or serious injury results in heartache and tragedy for those affected, and their loved ones.
Our bold and far-reaching plans being announced today are some of most ambitious in the world, and start from the basis that no death or serious injury on London’s roads should be treated as acceptable or inevitable.
At the heart of our plans is reducing the dangers of speeding vehicles across London, which is why we’re proposing a new general speed limit of 20mph on TfL roads within the Congestion Charging Zone - protecting cyclists, pedestrians and all road users in the busiest part of the capital.
Mayor, TfL and the Met launch the boldest ever plan to eliminate deaths and serious injuries on London’s roads
Cartmarking, year-Z brand for next-generation clean air freight vehicle in City of London
Logistics Skills Alliance took warehouse and storage as their focus for their entry to the prestigious 2018 Carmen Cartmarking event in Guildhall Yard, City of London, with a fork truck and an apprentice driver.
Next-generation skills on next-generation clean-air technology in the heart of the City of London with over 500 guests in a 'who’s who' of best-practice transport logistics.
TfL commissioner, Mike Brown congratulated Carmen apprentice Caitland on a perfectly driven zero-emission vehicle for Cartmarking 2018.
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Operators at core of discussion for low emission solutions for light vehicles, cargo bikes and small vans
Lomas opened with a pineapple example of supply chain delivered to the door in the exploding e-retail final mile client chain.
Sam Clarke Gnewt, ‘It's crazy not to have parking next to charge points.’
Kevin Valentine, Addison Lee, ‘You need to scale up the rapid charges really fast.'
Rob Scott Greater London Hire, GLH, ‘We all need to be more joined up with a common view of clean air.’
June sunshine, football fever as TfL LoCITY light vehicle group packed the Broadway TfL building in SW1, no seats left in the house, operators talking real delivery of clean air included, CitySprint, Addison Lee, Ocado and UPS as frank exchanges detailed the understanding of real world steps, for April 2019 ULEZ and what was going to be beyond.
London's City Hall for the Commercial EV Trial – One Year In Event.
LSA Chairman Carl Lomas was in the dome of glass with vistas from the Tower of London to HMS Belfast talking clean air at the heart of the govt of London with GLA in City Hall and express folk including Addison Lee, CitySprint, GLH, Hermes, Premier, TNT, ZE Cargo.
Sam Clarke Gnewt Cargo delivered the keynote vehicle speech. Patrick Feehily, ‘We need to get smarter about when and where we get local energy’ Christina Calderato spoke LoCITY, ‘we are helping fleets prepare for ULEZ.’ Venn Chesterton talked innovate UK project on freight trials and asked the question 'how clean is gas for alternative fuels?’.Andy Steele, delivered the results of the EV Trial one year in. ‘Smaller vehicles in the trial got to park close to delivery locations while larger vehicles had to park further away.’
DDC Warehouse and storage in the inspirational postcode of the East Midlands Gateway – LSA report next half million goes to XPO for Nestle.
Looking at the East Midlands heartland, named the Inspirational postcode by LEP chairman Peter Richardson of D2N2, ‘eighty per cent of the UK within four hours drive on the tacho.’
The giant site on the M1 J24 exit has its latest success story as Nestle are to work with XPO on a high tech half million feet shed.
