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Haulage Factfile pages provide busy operators with brief news items on: forthcoming events, services, business products, training, company moves, personnel changes, truck thefts, UK fuel prices, and details of the worst congestion blackspots on our already overcrowded road network. If you have information for inclusion in this section send it in to Commercial Motor, Haulage Factfile, Rm H203, Quadrant House, The Quadrant, Sutton, Surrey SM2 511S. fax 0181 652 8971, or phone our news team on 0181 652 3683.
EVENTS
• 15 December: Colin Bamford, the UK's first transport and logistics professor, gives his maiden lecture, Transport and Logistics: Strategies for a Sustainable Future, University of Huddersfield. Contact: 01484 472614.
• 14 January 1999: One-day Brake conference, Managing Road Safety, at the Institute of Mechanical Engineers HQ, London, on managers' liabilities for employees whose jobs involve driving, and how employers can combat road risks.
Cost: £175 (ex-VAT). Contact: 01306 741113.
• 22 January 1999: The Seventh Annual Railways Conference, on European Rail Freight Restructuring for the 21s1 Century, at the Sheraton Brussels Hotel and Towers.
Contact: (fax) 0171 931 0228.
• 10 February 1999: University of Huddersfield debate: This house believes that agency drivers are more trouble than they are worth. Contact: 01484 472499.
• 16-17 February 1999: Conference, Health Effects of Vehicle Emissions, hosted by Energy Logistics International at The Royal Society of Medicine, London. Contact: 01628 671717.
• 9-10 March 1999: Triangle Management Services' second Home Delivery conference, at the Copthorne Tara Hotel, Kensington, London, Contact: 01494 678000.
• 9-11 March 1999: Brityrex '99, National Hall, Olympia, London.
Contact: 0181 313 3535.
• 23-25 March 1999: The 1999 Commercial Vehicle Show, NEC, Birmingham.
Contact: 01634 261262. II 23-26 March 1999: The 16th International Transport and Logistics Week, Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre, Hall 6. Contact: 00331 4756 5200.
• 13-16 May 1999: Queensland Truck & Machinery Show, Brisbane, Australia.
Contact: 01926 425333. • 13 June 1999: Classic Commercial Motor Show, BP Truckstop, Watling Street, Rugby.
Contact 01327 79693.
• 25-27 August 1999: Transasia '99, trade, transportation and logistics exhibition, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Contact: 0171 453 5314.
PUBLICATIONS
Leyland Comet
• The latest volume in the Commercial Vehicles Archive Series is The Leyland Comet, by Graham Edge. It recounts the complete history of the Comet range from its development, including a chapter about PSV Leyland Comets, and runs to 68 pages.
Cost: £9.50.
Contact: Send cheques or postal orders to Gingerfold Publications, 8 Tothill Road, Swaffham Prior, Cambridge CB5 OJX.
PRODUCTS
Corgi models
• Just in time for Christmas, Corgi has added new models to its Modern HGV and Classic Road Transport ranges. Joining the 1:50 scale modern trucks are a Lynxliveried ERF EC Box trailer and a Leyland Daf curtainsider in Eddie Stobart's colours. The four new Classic Road Transport models are a a Wimpey Thames Trader tipper, a Wimpey luffing shovel, a Pickfords Scammell Highwayman low loader with transformer load, and an Eddie Stobart Foden S21 artic with containers. The S21 comes with a standing white-metal figure of a driver dressed in Stobart green overalls and tie.
Contact: 0845 603 9070.
PEOPLE Trans frigoroute
• Graham Eames has been elected as vice-president of Transfrigoroute International.
RFIDTC
II John Mervyn Pugh has resigned as chairman of the Road Haulage and Distribution Training CounciL