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CM's 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 5AS, fax 0181 652 8971, or phone our news team on 0181 652 3683.
EVENTS
• 14 January: 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.
• 16-24 January: Brussels International Motor Show, Brussels Exhibition Centre, Belgium.
Contact: 00 (3) 22 778 6444.
• 22 January: The 7th Annual Railways Conference, on European Rail Freight Restructuring for the 21st Century, at the Sheraton Brussels Hotel and Towers. Contact: (fax) 0171 931 0228.
• 10 February: University of Huddersfield debate: This house believes that agency drivers are more trouble than they are worth.
Contact: 01484 472499.
• 16-17 February: Conference, Health Effects of Vehicle. Emissions, hosted by Energy Logistics International at The Royal Society of Medicine, London. Contact: 01628 671717.
• 2-4 March: European Railfreight '99, Arabella Congress Centre, Frankfurt. Germany. Contact: 0171 242 2324.
• 9-10 March: Triangle Management Services' second Home Delivery conference, at the Copthorne Tara Hotel. Kensington, London.
Contact: 01494 678000.
• 9-11 March: Brityrex '99, National Hall, Olympia, London.
Contact: 0181 313 3535.
• 16 March: Brewery Transport Advisory Committee seminar, Logistics 2000, Preparing for the Millennium and Beyond, Hanover International Hotel, Daventry.
Contact: 01376 551027.
• 23-25 March: The 1999 Commercial Vehicle Show, Halls 2, 3 and 3a of the NEC, Birmingham. Contact: 01634 261262.
• 23-26 March: The 16th International Transport and Logistics Week, Hall 6, Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre.
Contact: 0033 1 475 65200.
TRAINING Space management
• The Keye Productivity Centre has introduced a series of one-day seminars entitled The Organised Warehouse to help warehouse managers organise space and resources more effectively. The venues and dates are: Dublin, 8 February; London, 9 February; Heathrovv, 10 February; Birmingham, 11 February; Manchester, 12 February.
Contact: 08701 660001.
PRODUCTS Company data
• Information solutions company Experian has launched a CD-Rom containing detailed information about every limited company in the UK. Reference Master provides four years' information for each company Contact: 0115 992 2496.
PEOPLE ANC
• Express Parcel Carriers ANC has appointed Michael Adams as its new international services director.
Key Lease
• Transportation financier GE Capital-Key Lease has appointed Lim Anna-Maria Danielsson as director and general manager of the Nordic and Benelux regions.