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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, buck thefts, UK fuel prices, and detais 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 11203, Quadrant House, The Quadrant, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5AS, fax 0181 652 8971, or phone our news team on 0181 652 3683.
EVENTS
• 4-5 September: IRTE '98 Scottish Truck Show, Scottish Exhibition Centre, Glasgow. Contact 0171 630 1111. • 5-6 September: Institute of Transport Administration, Truckex & Lorry Driver of the Year finals, South Cerney Airfield, Cirencester, Gloucestershire. Contact: 01703 631380. • 6 September: The Historic Commercial Vehicle Society's 27th BournemouthBath Run, for vehicles over 20 years old. Contact: 01985 214910. • 15-20 September: Automechanica, International Auto Service Trade Fair, Frankfurt. Contact: 0171 499 8861. • 16-17 September: Conference & Exhibition on Automotive Security, National Motorcycle Museum, Solihull, West Midlands. Contact: 01372 367000. • 16-17 September: Plant Engineering & Maintenance Show, the Telford Exhibition Centre-moves to the Harrogate International Centre on 3-4 November. Contact 01342 825225. • 21 September: South Wales Traffic Area, Operating Licence seminar, Forge Hotel, St Clears, Carrnarthenshire. Contact: 0121 608 1029. • 21-24 September International Transport Exhibition, Cape Town. Contact: 00 27 11 835 1565. • 24 September: BRF Annual Conference-The new deal for transport. Speaker: the new minister for transport, John Reid MP Volvo Trucks Conference Centre, Warwick. Fee: BRF members E75, non-members £90. Contact: 0171 703 9769. • 26 September: Road Haulage Association's Fair Play on Fuel Rally, Papal Field, Heaton Park, Manchester, Junction 17, M62. Contact: 01274 863100. • 30 September-1 October: Tyrexpo Asia '98, World Trade Centre, Singapore. Contact: 0181 313 3535. • 1 October: Controlled Atmosphere in Marine Transport Refrigeration, Hemingford Grey House, Hemingford Grey, Near Huntingdon, Cambs. Contact: 01223 365101. • 5-7 October: Terminal Operations Conference and Exhibition, Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dubai, UAE. Contact: 0171 453 5309. • 13-15 October: Supply Chain Efficiency Seminar '98, Earls Court Conference Centre, London. Contact: 01234 750323. • 18 October: First AGM of The Leyland Society. Several hundred truck and bus enthusiasts and former Leyland employees will be invited to the meeting, at the British Commercial Vehicle Museum in Leyland. Membership costs £10. Contact: 01772 451011. • 20-21 October: Second MIRA International Conkrence on Vehicle Aerodynamics, Hilton National Hotel, Coventry Contact: 01203 355584. • 21 October: Road Haulage Association, Northern Region, Dangerous Goods Safety Advisors Seminar, Post House Hotel, Haydock. Contact: 01274 863100. • 22-23 October: Seminar on Developing and Delivering Integrated Transport, Waldorf Meridien Hotel, London, WC2. Contact: 0171 915 5055.
• 18 November: The operators group of the automobile division, Insititute of Mechanical Engineers, is organising a seminar called Improving Vehicle Workshop Efficiency at the Gas Research & Technology centre in Loughborough. Contact: 0171 973 1245. • 26-27 November: The Logistics Updates-Learning from international best practice: city logistics and reverse logistics. Forum Hotel, Kensington.
Contact: 01494 678000. • 3 November: Road Haulage Office, Bradford, Computers For The Haulier seminar. Contact: 01274 863100. • 1-3 December: Intermodal '98, Ahoy Centre, Rotterdam. Contact: 0171 453 5309. • 15 December: Colin Bamford, the UK's first transport and logistics professor, gives his first professional lecture Transport and Logistics: strategies for a sustainabk future, University of Huddersfield.
Contact: 01484 472614.
• 14 January 1999: Managing Road Safety—oneday Brake conference 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.
• 9-10 March 1999: Triangle Management Services' second Home Delivery conference, Copthorne Tara Hotel, Kensington.
Contact: 01494 678000.
• 9-11 March 1999: Brityrex '99 at the National Hall, Olympia, London. Contact: 0181 313 3535.
BUSINESS MOVES
Salvage group
• A group of independent salvage operators has established the British Vehicle Salvage Federation to represent the industry's interests in discussions with insurers, government, police and other interested parties. Alan Greenouff is the secretary general of BVSF.
Contact: 01708 381046.
Qscar Faber
• International transport and building services consultancy Oscar Faber has opened an office in Reigate, Surrey. It will deal mainly with developing driver information systems such as RDS-TMC and regional traffic control centres.
Contact: 01737 240800.
TRAINING
CPC courses
• EP Training Services is conducting courses for the RSA examination on 2 October. The five-day national freight course begins on 21 September and the three-day international course starts on 28 September. Courses will be held at EP's Great Bookham, Surrey, trainin: centre.
Contact: 01372 450800.
AWARDS
Hartwell Truck
• Joe Cruickshank, service manager at Luton-based Iveco Ford dealership Hartwell Truck, received the Service Manager of the Year award at Iveco Ford's Blackpool conference. Contact: 01582 597575.
PEOPLE
Fleetway Systems
• Aidan Lynch is operations manager, major accounts, at Fleetway Systems.
ANC
• ANC has chosen Tony Locke as new franchisee at ANC Croydon.
Sanderson Bramall
• Harrogate-based Sanderson Bramall has appointed Eve Beresford its new group training manager.
Eaton
• Kerry Foos is now the European sales manager at Hounslow based Eaton Truck Components.
Stronghold
• Stronghold Plastic Protections has appointed Des Green and Alan Westwood as technical and sales directors.
Mobile Information
• Jon Reichelt has joined Mobile Information Systems as customer support manager.