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• Commercial Vehicle enthusiasts will be interested in a new publication giving a full history of the Bristol truck marque.
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The 80-page hardback book has been written by Alan Janes and Phil Sposito, two Bristol enthusiasts who have spent more than 10 years on its research. Janes and Sposito say the book contains over 130 illustrations, many of which have not been published before. The two men published the book themselves and it is available, priced .W.95 (plus £1.00 p&p) from A Sposito, 6 Lowbourne, St Giles Estate, Whitchurch, Bristol BS14 ()AN.
• Salesmen have an unfortunate reputation for poor driving, so one company has come up with an idea to curtail the wilder excesses of its drivers. Erskine Printing Systems, with 200 sales reps, has bought a Lada.
The vehicle, known as The punishment car", cost 13,500 and is presented each month to the rep who has most badly mistreated his company car.
There must be some transport managers who would like to introduce a similar "prize" in their truck fleets. Any suggestions which truck should be "the punishment vehicle"?
• Ireland has the lowest ratio of trucks per head of population of any country in Europe, just 249 per million. Italy is the next lowest with 310. Top of the table is the Netherlands with a hefty 803 trucks per million.
At least that's what Giorgio Garuzzo, head of Iveco, told the Hawk at the Turin Show. The Hawk is at a loss as to know why this was revealed, but thinks the public ought to know. • A roadside vehicle survey aimed at easing congestion caused .a 8.5km tailback last week outside Reading, Berkshire.
• British Telecom has hired a second cable-laying vehicle rather than evict four fledgling blackbirds nesting in the first. I wonder if one of the birds was called Buzby?
• Armed robbers hijacked a truck in Smethwick, near Birmingham, last week forcing driver Dave Rogers of Leicester to drive to Roebuck Lane, West Bromwich at knife point. Rogers bravely grabbed the keys when the truck stopped and ran for his life before being caught, bound, gagged and then dumped under some nearby railway arches. • Pet toy manufacturer HiCraft has launched a car seat belt for dogs. Available in five different sizes, the belts are suitable for tiny Terriers to giant Great Danes.
• The plight of Russian bears got some sympathy at this year's Unilever general meeting when one delegate stood up to complain about animal ill-treatment in one of the company's American commercials. Michael Angus, joint chairman, immediately promised he would look into it, saying: "As the owner of three dogs, 10 cats, 26 goats and a chicken which is 20 years old, I am clearly an animal lover myself."
• Did you know? Ford has had to pay £2 million in compensation for noise-induced deafness to nearly 1,200 employees at its Dagenham plant. And with another 2,000 claims on the way, Ford could end up forking out 25 million.
• Geoff Capes is at it again and is now claiming a new strength world record after pulling a nine-tonne bus complete with 31 passengers. He managed to yank the vehicle 40 metres in just 12 seconds, probably the average speed of a bus nowadays anyway. Maybe it's a good way for PSV operators to save on their fuel bills.