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Ors 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 i,ommercial Motor, Haulage Factfile, Rtn H203, Quadrant House, The Quadrant, Sutton, Surrey SI412 5AS, fax 0181652 8971, or phone our news team on 0181 652 3683.
EVENTS
• 23 November: Seminar, Essential Haulage Seckford Hall Hotel, Woodbridge, Suffolk from 17:00hrs, with the Road Haulage Association's director-general Steven Norris.
Contact: 01473 217691.
• 25 November: Conference, The Impact of Sustainable Environmental Policies on the Development of Transport Infrastructure, at the Berkeley Hotel, London Wl.
Contact: The Chartered Institute of Transport on 0171 233 7600.
• 26-27 November Conferences, City Logistics and Reverse Logistics, at The Forum Hotel, Kensington, London.
Contact: 01494 678000.
• 1 December: Cutting one in 10 road journeys-a one-day conference examining the potential of demand management measures to reduce road traffic. St James Court Hotel, London. Contact: 0171 233 7600.
• 1-3 December: Intermodal '98, Ahoy Centre, Rotterdam.
Contact: 0171 453 5309.
• 8-9 December: Conferences, Plastics in Contact with Foodstuffs and Paper in Contact with Foodstuffs, 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 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: One-day Brake conference, Managing Road Safety, 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.
• 10 February 1999: University of Huddersfield debate: This house believes that agency drivers are more trouble than they are worth. Contact: 01484 472499.
• 16-17 February 1999: Conference, Health Effects of Vehicle Emissions, hosted by Energy Logistics International at The Royal Society of Medicine, London. Contact: 01628 671717.
• 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 Painting Whales
• A new commercial vehicle paintshop has opened at Whale Tankers' headquarters in Solihull. The 1,860m2 shop was purpose-built at a cost of .£750,000. Facilities include air-conditioned, temperature-controlled spray booths and a five-tonne overhead crane.
Contact: 0121 704 5700.
Joining forces
• The freight systems division of Arbil (formerly 'Truckers Direct) has joined forces with Load Safe, a long-established manufacturer of commercial vehicle tarpaulins and canvas products. Now trading from a purposebuilt warehouse in Lye, West Midlands, the aim is to offer large stocks of tarpaulins. ratchet lashings, loadbinders, chains and lorry ropes at competitive prices. Customers who are not able to collect goods can call into the Bristol and Coventry branches, which also keep substantial stocks, or can have the products delivered to their own premises anywhere in the country either by courier or Arbil.
Contact: 01384 895 700.
SERVICES
Screens on the net
• Replacement or repair of damaged windscreens can be arranged over the internet via the new Autoglas:,s website. Vehicle details and the extent of windscreen damage can be e-mailed to the Autoglass call centre, which is manned 24 hours a day to arrange an appointment or immediate help anywhere in the UK. The web site is www.autoglass.co.uk.
Contact: 0171 379 0304.
IRTE website
• The East of Scotland centre of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers now has a website, This enables operators in the region to contact the centre direct. It also carries information on the Centre's programme of meetings, presentations and social events, providing a local point of contact with fellow engineers and the chance to hear expert speakers and industry figures. Contact: http://sceirleorguk.
PRODUCTS
Portable package
• Axle weighing equipment company Axtec has introduced a battery-powered data entry keypad and printer for use with its portable axle weighpad. This will enable customers who need portable axle weighing to benefit from the full Axtec Fleet management software package previously only available with a fixed-axle weighbridge. The new system has a display which issues instructions and confirms entries. Using internal rechargeable batteries the printer and keyboard will operate continuously for eight hours from a single charge. The fleet management program stores the legal limits of vehicles in memory against a unique number.
Contact: 01928 581575.
Light brakes
• AlliedSignal has issued a new brake hydraulics catalogue for light commercial vehicles, It covers all hydraulic actuation parts, wheels and master cylinders,
servos, pressure regulating valves, hoses and remanufacturecl calipers, and a complete range of clutch master and slave cylinders. More than 160 new part numbers have been added. The Hydraulics catalogue is available in print, CD Rom, MANI or Tridex formats, Contact: 01625 546612.
PEOPLE
Lynx Express
• Eddie Flynn has been appointed as the new general manager of Lynx Express's Reading branch.
Eurotunnel Freight
• Patrick Hutley is h'urotunnel Freight's new sales representative for Scotland and Ireland.
IRU
• Rudolf Christian Bauer has been elected chairman of the International Road Transport Union Commission on Economic Affairs.
Volvo
• The Volvo sales team at Warwick has appointed two new members: David Clibborn, who will be head of the fleet sales operation: and Chris Sansome, who will be used truck manager,
GE Capital Fleet
• Mark Hughes has been appointed director of quality at GE Capital Fleet Services.
Sanderson Ford
• Sanderson Ford has appointed Brett Whittingham to be its new dealer principal in Manchester.