When Did Haulage Companies Become 'Logistics'?

[barry1010]

Just wondering. Anyone know the first UK company to start using the term?

[Mamyalynne]

Keep on truckin' Doug.

[Hopkirk]

Logistics is much more than just haulage.

[retrocop]

Army bomb disposal are now part of the Logistics Corps. Used to be the Royal Engineers who cleaned up the UXBs and IEDs.

[AZardoz]

The main is that everyone is 'going forward.'

[AZardoz]

* The main thing

(keybd is almost shot)

[barry1010]

Hopkirk, when a fleet of lorries has 'logistics' emblazoned all over it what else is it other than a haulage / transport company?

[Hopkirk]

Well they might run the warehouses, and be involved in the packaging processes as well as run the lorries.

[Prudie]

I have worked on a defence site since the early 90s and right from the start the warehousing/stores movement department was always referred to as Logistics.

[teacake44]

Back in March/April we were told that twenty thousand army personnel had been engaged to handle the logistical task of delivering PPE across the country, and to assist in testing, it failed.

[alavahalf]

There's always one who doesn't understand what the thread is about .. and they seem to manage to bring blaming the government into it ..
That they personally voted for!

[teacake44]

^I think you might be getting the government mixed up with the army, oh, and I well understand, logistics was in the OP. As you mention the government, I will now include them, may be the army couldn't deliver because there was no PPE all along.