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ers 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
• 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: RHA 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 EC]. Contact: 01372 841010.
• 18 November: The operators group of the lnsititute 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.
• 25 November: Conference, The Impact of Sustainable Environmental Policies on the Development of Transport Infrastructure, at the Berkeley Hotel, London WI.
Contact: The Chartered Institute of Transport on 0171 233 7600.
• 26-27 November: Logistics ChallengesLearning from International Best Practice, City Logisitics and Reverse Logistics, at the Forum Hotel, London.
Contact: 01494 678000.
• 1-3 December: httermodal '98, Ahoy Centre, Rotterdam. Contact: 0171 453 5309.
• 8-9 December: Plastics in Contact with Foodstuffs and Paper in Contact with Foodstuffs conferences, Copthorne Tara Hotel, Kensington, London.
Contact: 01372 802046.
• 10-11 December: Pira conference. Developing Packaging for the Future Retail Environment, at the Regent's Park Marriott Hotel, London WI.
Contact: 01372 802000.
• 15 December: Colin 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.
PUBLICATIONS
Plimsoll portfolio
• Plimsoll Portfolio Analysis has launched its Commercial Vehicles, 2nd Edition 1998. It analyses the financial health of haulage firms.
Cost: £305 with a 5% discount for CM readers. Contact: Jennifer Ovington on 01642 257800.
BUSINESS MOVES
Inexpart & EEC
• West Yorkshire-based lnexpart and sister European Engine Components have moved to a new warehouse at Links 31, Willowbridge Way, Whitwood, Castleford West Yorks WFIO 5N1). Contact: 01977 553936.
Target Worldwide
• Parcels carrier Target Worldwide Express has moved its Gatwick depot from Tinsley Lane North to Faraday Road, Manor Royal, Crawley, West Sussex RHIO 2PX. Target is also launching a 13:00hrs Saturday collection service for a premium of £15.
Contact: 01925 570000.
TRUCK RACING
Final positions
1. Faure EM-B): 396; 2. Luostarinen (CAT): 383; 3. Oestreich (M-B): 377;
4. Kreutzpointner (MAN): 372;
5. Parrish (M-B): 343; 6. Albacete (MAN): 251.
SERVICES
Purchasing cards
• Barclays Merchant Services says more and more hauliers are using purchasing cards to reduce the impact of slow paying customers on their businesses. Instead of waiting up to 90 days for invoice settlement, hauliers using the card can receive payment within four banking days.
Contact: 0870 6060060.
Business search
• Equifax has launched a Credit Decisions CD-ROM which provides an analysis of 1.4-million limited businesses in the UK.
Cost: £3,000 for 355 searches. Contact: 0845 603 3000.
PEOPLE
Barnes Group
• LDV and Leyland r)af dealer The Barnes Group has appointed Ken Crawley as BM' sales specialist at its dealership in Pony Road, Oxford.
Allied Continental
• Berkshire-based Allied Continental Intermodal has appointed Jonathan Fox as general manager.
Geest
• Robert Bloomfield has been appointed as transport resources manager at European intermodal transport operator Geest.
PRODUCTS
ABS webs ite
• Ascoat Bodyshop Services (ABS) has launched a website: hltp//wirtcabs.orguk. Contact: 01606 562222.
Fume extraction
• I.incoln Electric has launched a range of lowvacuum fume extraction units called Prosource LV It is said to combine improved filtration efficiency with easy operation. The new Longlife filter features a 50m2 filter area, compared with the usual 14 or 15m2.
Contact: 0114 2463335.