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Easy replacement
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The STP Hitch fifth-wheel coupling for tractive units made by Slaven Transport Products can now be offered with various types of mounting feet for replacement purposes. This design overcomes the problem that can exist when replacing a worn or damaged coupling because mounting-hole spacings used by the different manufacturers vary.
THE keeping of records and the ability to find them in a hurry will become more and more important as the Transport Act legislation gains impetus. Oldfashioned methods of record keeping, while in many cases still adequate for small organizations are seldom satisfactory for getting at facts quickly and consequently cost a fair, if hidden, amount of hard cash to operate.
The computer has made its mark in mammoth companies as a means of reducing clerical costs but is completely out of the reach of a vast majority of hauliers. So, like all other sophisticated services, it has become available on contract hire.
A firm trading under the name of Thomcite Ltd. has developed a series of standard programmes which it claims will reduce the costs of processing 10 sets of records by 50 per cent. The 10 With the latest Slaven coupling, the mounting feet are already drilled at the same spacing used by other manufacturers so that replacement is simply a job of removing eight bolts and replacing the old coupling with the new one.
The price of the coupling with any other foot except the standard is only £3 more than normal—£53 as compared with £50.
Made by: Slaven Transport Products Ltd., Astmoor Industrial Estate, Runcorn, Cheshire.
records are: 1, vehicle and log analysis; 2, licence reminders; 3, MoT test reminders; 4, Maintenance reminders; 5, depreciation reports; 6, quarterly and annual vehicle reports; 7, costing analysis; 8, budgetary control; 9, fuel reconciliation; and 10, mileage reports.
The reports contain all the vital information required to keep track of a fleet and the company intends producing drivers' record books in accordance with the new regulations which come into force on March 1, 1970, to suit its system.
As an extension to the services it offers at present, Thomcite intends to introduce a fully comprehensive computerized system including payroll records and calculation for haulage firms.
Further information can be obtained from Thomcite Ltd., 66, High Street, Kingstonupon-Thames, Surrey.