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Dor vehicle buffs keen to personalise clothing or other accessories with the name of their favourite CV conies Hot Marques, sets of iron-on transfers which can transform drab interiors or boring teeshirts into subtle fashion statements. Perhaps you want the pocket of your jeans to advertise Volvo or Citroen; flirtatious female readers might want "mini" on their miniskirts. Very sad people will insist on stamping Cosworth or Skoda on their foreheads. Hours of fun, methinks, for these long summer evenings.
o you know a tuck driver who has acted in a heroic manner? Maybe someone in your company has been instrumental in saving lives at the scene of a road accident or taking a selfless action that prevented one? Perhaps a driver you know risked all to save someone else in the course of their work. If this description fits the bill of a workmate or acquaintance, they may be in line fora 11,000 prize in the Heroic Truck Driver of the Year competition, sponsored by HiQ Tyre Services. Last year's winner was Leicestershire driver John Blake who pulled a man and his two sons to safety after their car caught fire during a collision.
Nominations should be sent to RTA PR, Stockfield Road, Acocks Green, Birmingham, B27 6AT by 15 July.
0 f not heroic, the actions of a driver Ibr Road and Sea Express when he spotted a woman wheeling a pushchair up the 2115s hard shoulder, were certainly chivalrous and kind hearted Robert Jones. managing director of Road and Sea Express, received a letter film schoolboy Robert Portlock, who witnessed the incidentfrom a motorway bridge. "One of your lorries stopped to ofti,r he0 to a woman whose car had broken down. She was pushing her child in a pushchair up the hard shoulder
"The driver shielded her all the way to the emergency phone and made sure she was alright and that llw police had been notified before driving off They must have shielded her for at least half a mile, which was very good" There's still a few of those knights of the road about it would seem.