I recently received an email from a parent concerned about the safety of the vehicles contracted by the council to transport school children. The concern was raised after her daughter was on a coach that caught fire whilst transporting 53 children on a school trip. The blaze started at the rear of the vehicle, there […]
Over the past three years, the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) has been demystifying FORS and CLOCS. It all started with a series of funded workshops in 2016 which progressed more recently to a webinar format. To date, over 500 construction and logistics professionals have had the perceived confusion explained. For the logistics […]
Controlling freight vehicles in London isn’t new. In 1517, the Fellowship of Carmen was established with the authority to control the carters. This meant that no ‘cart’ could ply its trade within the City unless licensed by the Corporation. By 1838 the annual fee to licence a cart was five shillings, and the penalty for […]
A few weeks ago, I was standing at Euston Station staring at the departure boards. It was one of a handful of days in the year when a trespasser on the track (or some other incident) causes absolute chaos to rail passengers. As the departure board timings were replaced with the ‘delayed’ message the concourse […]
In business the contract is a powerful tool and in 2015 the Supreme Court declared, ‘the contract is king’. The case was nothing to do with logistics or transport, in fact it was concerning the service charge for holiday lets, but an authoritative statement all the same. The contract is an agreement, enforceable by law, which […]
Yesterday an average of five people will have been killed on UK roads. This is alongside the five people killed on the roads today and those five who will be killed tomorrow. Tragically, it won’t matter when you read this article, this opening line will be valid at any point in time – the number […]
Accreditation, qualifications, testimonials and reviews are a fact of life and can be a means to attracting or winning new business. They are a way to evaluate, benchmark or demonstrate the quality of a product, service or even an individual. Whether it’s organic food, hotel facilities or take away shop hygiene – accreditation has become […]
Casting your eyes around the London skyline, no matter where you are in the city you’ll see cranes in every direction. A clear sign that London’s undergoing a radical transformation. Deloitte’s London Office Crane Survey Summer 2017 shows almost 15 million square feet of office space under construction. Government has identified a number of opportunity […]
This year has been a pretty impressive for the complementary FORS and CLOCS initiatives. It’s clear both schemes are going from strength to strength and becoming embedded in a range of sectors as the national standards for quality fleet operations and managing road risk in supply chains. FORS in 2016 FORS has now completed its […]
With London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s recent announcement that certain HGVs will be banned from the capital’s roads within the next four years, there is now a very clear statement that vehicle operators and manufacturers are about to experience a significant shift in the future of HGV design. As part of Khan’s manifesto which put forward […]
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