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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 blacitspots on our already overcrowded road network. if you have information for inclusion in this section send it in to Commercial Motor, Haulage Factfile, RID H203, Quadrant House, The Quadrant, Sutton, Surrey SM2 MS, fax 0181 652 8971, or phone our news team on 01816523681
EVENTS
• 1345 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 Conference on Vehicle Aerodynamics, Hilton National Hotel, Coventry. Contact: 01203 355584.
• 21 October: Road Haulage Association, Northern Region, seminar, Dangerous Goods Safety Advisors, Post House Hotel, Haydock.
Contact: 01274 863100.
• 22 October: Briefing on the forthcoming Dangerous Goods legislation, venue has yet to be announced. Fax: 0161 876 5533.
• 22-23 October: Seminar, Developing and Delivering Integrated Transport, Waldorf Meridien Hotel, London, WC2.
Contact: 0171 915 5055.
• 29-30 October: British Stainless Steel Association annual conference, Stratford Moat House Hotel, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire.
Contact: 01789 279988.
• 3 November: Seminar, Computers For The Haulier, Road Haulage Office, Bradford.
Contact: 01274 863100.
• 4 November: Transport Statistics Users Group seminar, Data Requirements for Monitoring the Success of Government Policies on Traffic and Transport habits, Chartered Institute of Transport, London. Contact: 0171 603 1618.
• 12 November: Motor Fraud, a one-day conference on tackling the problem of motor fraud and its implications for the insurance industry, London Ed. Contact: 01372 841010.
• 18 November: The operators group of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers' automobile division is organising a seminar, Improving Vehicle Workshop Efficiency, at the Gas Research & Technology centre in Loughborough.
Contact: 0171 973 1245.
• 26-27 November: Logistics ChallengesLearning from International Best Practice, City Logistics and Reverse Logistics, at the Forum Hotel, London.
Contact: 01494 678000.
• 1-3 December: Intermodal '98, Ahoy Centre, Rotterdam. Contact: 0171 453 5309.
• 10-11 December: Pira conference, Developing Packaging for the Future Retail Environment, at the Regent's Park Marriott Hotel, London Wl.
Contact: 01372 802000.
• 15 December: Cohn Bamford, the UK's first transport and logistics professor, gives his first professional lecture, Transport and Logistics: Strategies for a Sustainable Future, University of Huddersfield. Contact: 01484 472614.
• 14 January 1999: Managing Road Safetyone-day 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, 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, Halls 2, 3 and 3a of the NEC, Birmingham.
Contact: 01634 261262.
BUSINESS MOVES The truck stops here
• TR Group Holdings has opened a truck stop in
Liverpool. The 'FR Truck Stop features secure overnight parking, a diner (with a former QE2 chef), a truck wash and fast refuelling
Cost: £7 for overnight parking, including a £2 meal voucher.
Contact: 0151 647 3877.
Dutch base
• DTS Logistics has opened a 16,000m2 warehouse at Helmond in Holland on the German border.
PUBLICATIONS Air apparent
• Boge Compressors' first book, Boge Compressed Air Compendium, provides detailed information on all aspects of using compressed air. Cost: £17.
Contact 01527 878797.
Best practice in transit sheds
• The Heathrow Airline Operators Committee-Cargo and the British International Freight Association have launched a best-practice guide for transit shed operators. Two free copies of the guide will be mailed out to all air freight forwarders in the Heathrow area.
Contact: 01256 333112.
SERVICES Austria direct
• Securicor Omega International is now running a direct import/export freight service to Vienna twice a week.
Contact: 01698 508244.
PRODUCTS Reversing aid avoids hazards
• Ital's new Cobra Parkmaster is designed to make reversing safer. Sensors placed on the vehicle's bumper detect any obstacles up to two metres away and a buzzer sounds in the cab, changing tone as the vehicle gets closer to the hidden object. A continuous sound is heard at 300mm. Contact: 01923 240525.
Tougher Tracker
• Vehicle security firm Tracker has extended its range of options: the recovery system has been enhanced with a "guard and recover" facility
Contact 0645 101099.
Cover up
• Spa!dings has launched a range of heavy-duty seat covers for HGVs and fourwheel-drive vehicles.
Cost: £1927 a pair.
Contact: 01522 500600.
AWARDS Young guns
• The Young Freight Forwarder of the Year Award has been launched by intermodal transport insurer the TT club. It is open to hauliers aged 18-25.
Contact: 0171 204 2626.
PEOPLE Walon
• Walon, a member of AutoLogic Holdings, has appointed Tim Harms as dealer development manager.
Pulleyn Transport
• Colin Colvin, Ray Gudge and lain Foster have joined Pulleyn Transport from Hays as managing director, chairman and finance director respectively.
Lynx Express
• Carl Moore has been appointed North-West area manager for Lynx Express.
United Carriers
• Ray Bradley is the new depot manager of TX's Hitchin branch, which handles more than 13,000 parcels a day for Hertfordshire and North London.