DfT STAT next-generation logistics workforce at NEC
Tracey Worth talked DfT STAT next generation workforce inclusion on the IOC stand at Multimodal in the NEC.
Who is STAT? who are we and what do we do? Being at Multimodal was about taking away and doing that one thing, start your journey today, sign the pledge commitment board for diversity today, here before you leave. Placing 86 employer commitments here today.
The Carmen Cartboard was displayed on the IOC Honda 1976 courier bike – fellows and visitors to the ‘A’ list logistics trade show got a first-hand introduction to the transport livery and its five hundred years of sector history.
The Cartboard showcased the earliest form of vehicle taxation, clean streets five hundred years before clean air and ULEZ.
Green-focused overhaul of fleet with the launch of a new electric vehicle, trailers and Microlise GPS tracking software to optimise driver performance.
Yodel has announced a £15.2m investment in its fleet, designed to reduce the environmental impact of its road-based operations. The investment includes new vehicles and trailers as well as technology to improve efficiency and safety.
DfT announced this week, new national parking data standards are to be introduced which could mean the end of outdated parking systems.
The world-leading project sees the introduction of new data standards which could revolutionise parking, improving the driver experience.
Data could identify available parking spaces, permitted times and prices, in simple formats that smartphone apps can use right across the country. This could mean the end of outdated parking systems, encouraging more shoppers onto Britain’s high streets.
‘Inclusion of workforce for logistics in a modern business’
Strategic transport apprenticeship taskforce diversity event.
Mike Brown, STAT chair,
We are seeing good progress in the increase of diversity and inclusion; it is really important that we understand apprentices’ experiences and act on them to keep on making progress’
Tracey Worth - ‘Diversity - What one thing can you do?’
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Thor Johansen, Paxster ‘Saving fifteen minutes an hour in delivery cycles’
Friday for Prime Minister step-down, first news at the full-house Bank Holiday weekend light vehicle TfL LoCITY meeting of Mike Ellis, MP for Northampton, stepping into transport minister post from his former arts and culture role.
Great agenda included, Thor Johansen to explain the Paxster electric light vehicle.
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, this week praised thousands of motorists across the capital for changing their behaviour to help improve London’s air quality, as a report evaluating the first month’s impact of his Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) found that 74 per cent of vehicles driving into the zone were compliant with the new standards.
GLA report, number of older, more polluting non-compliant vehicles has reduced by 9,400 on an average day.
Polluting vehicles account for around half of London’s harmful NOx air emissions, and air pollution costs the capital up to £3.7 billion every year.
Launched on 8 April and operating alongside the congestion charge, the world’s first Ultra-Low Emission Zone is helping address London’s toxic air health crisis that currently leads to thousands of premature deaths annually, and increases the risk of asthma, cancer and dementia.
DPD has underlined its commitment to a cleaner, ‘greener’ future by becoming the first UK customer for the all-new, fully-electric eVito from Mercedes-Benz Vans, commissioned 10 Long-bodied versions of the ground-breaking, mid-sized model, which combines a competitive carrying capacity with zero tailpipe emissions.
Microlise Wednesday full house, blue carpets of the Ricoh Arena
Talk of all things freight logistics, packed audience, standing at the sides of the blue carpet for the UK's top freight conference at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry.
Paul Strong, Google Cloud, talked 'Just-in-time everything.'
Dr Jonathan Keating ‘Growth of e-commerce is influencing the vehicles on our roads today. A better way to understand people's purchasing behaviour is key.'
Felix Kybart, MAN, ‘let me electrify you with the eTGM truck, 180km range. Total cost of ownership for electric will be on the same level with diesel by 2020.'
Elliot Shaw, Highways England, 'we have committed to deliver a charger within twenty miles of you.'
Van was King in a red-themed Commercial Vehicle show 2019.
Walk the CV show red carpet with the IOC exclusive photo gallery; if you did not make it, IOC have an exclusive photo tour from the comfort of your laptop below.
IOC chair, Carl Lomas, met Man from the Ministry, Phil Martin, DfT during three days of commercial vehicles at the NEC to talk all things vehicle in final mile.
What once was a truck show sees the big LGVs in the minority in a land where van is king. Exploding e-retail driving courier and final mile showed in the displays of light vehicles dressed for courier and delivery work. Manufacturers showcasing their volume, weight and loading, getting clean on their emissions for arriving compliance on clean air and listing big numbers in the fuel mile per gallons.
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