Logistics Skills Alliance launch 2025 Logistics Vision - a national platform

 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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Prime Day began three years ago, July 15th 2015, the anniversary of the original founding of Amazon by its CEO Jeff Bezos. In 2017 Amazon Prime Day was big; numbers more than doubled from 2016.

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.

 

Top flight landing as Eddie the Eagle lands on stage to present Swift Logistics a West Berkshire win.

Eddie the Eagle announces,

This year’s Most Committed Organisation to Learning award goes to the Swift Logistics Group, a Newbury-based distribution and warehousing company.

Tracy Aust, Logistics Skills Alliance, West Thames College, congratulates Swift boss Adrian Smith. Adrian comments,

Our view at Swift is simple. investment and support of your community and the development of youth is a sound investment in your own future, we follow this mantra in all our decisions and investments in both our business activities and many and varied communities support programs. Our community matters. It’s sustainable, responsible and effective, and more importantly- it feels great!

LSA in Manchester with the Warehouse Technology Group WTG conference.

LSA chair, Carl Lomas got hands-on in the warehouse, now enjoying its eighth year – the event was a combination of keynote presentations, live demonstrations, advice clinics and networking for logistics and warehousing professionals.

Keynote speaker Mike Vernon, Head of Innovation at Kuehne & Nagel UK shared his extensive experience in employing warehouse technology to reduce costs, increase throughput and deliver a better customer experience.

Whistl acquisition of Parcelhub and Mail Workshop

Whistl is the UK's largest Downstream Access Business Mail provider and is actively pursuing growth strategies in the doordrop media, parcels, fulfilment and international markets across the UK.

FORS practitioner standard in the new Trailblazer degree apprenticeship.

Fleet operator recognition scheme, FORS was built and designed for trucks, tachographs and trailers at its heart. Bronze, silver and gold FORS accreditation stickers are on the back of almost five thousand trucks today.

FORS is almost ten years old and is set to launch version five of the standard at this year’s national conference in Middle England on October 16th.

FORS looks set to re-focus on vans and even include powered two-wheelers for this decade’s showcase of road safety standards.

Logistics Skills Alliance at the UK and Ireland's largest transport and logistics event - Multimodal 2018

  • 225 exhibitors
  • 9,500 visitors
  • 35 conference sessions
  • 85 speakers
  • The Multimodal Mixer - networking for exhibitors and visitors
  • 12 Awards

Exclusive sneak-peek of the exhibitor stands before the doors even open ! see our photo-gallery of the stands

UK national transport showcase for all things logistics, Ford, Citroen, Fiat, LDV, Peugeot and Renault all showcasing the vans in back to back floor space. Highways England in hall three, Shell and Goodyear in hall five,

MAN launch van, Nissan talk two hundred miles electric and Iveco go gas with blue van.