Wheel fund cash-in
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• The Department of Trade and Industry has pledged to match the £10,000
raised so far by the industry and Commercial Motor to fund research into truck wheel loss.
Commercial Motor's Wheel Loss Campaign, launched in January, helped to alert the industry to the need for cash to solve the wheel loss mystery. CM has received donations from across the industry, from owner-operators to manufacturers, as well as letters from dozens of hauliers whose businesses have been hit by wheel loss.
Trucks shedding wheels have already caused several deaths this year.
The cash raised will be used by the Motor Industry Research Association to draw up a test method for consistent performance of wheel fixings. At the moment with bogstandard nuts and bolts, you get less clamping force every time you take the wheel on and off," says Don Wright, chairman of the British Standard tyres and wheels technical committee, which will be working with MIRA.
A new British Standard for CV wheel fixings will also be funded by the Department of Trade and Industry.
0 Donations are still needed for Commercial Motor's wheel loss fund. Send cheques payable to Commercial Motor Wheel Fund to Room 403, Quadrant House, The Quadrant, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5AS.