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Chi's Haulage Fact& 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, km H203, Quadrant House, The Quadrant, Sutton, Surrey SM2 SAS, fax 0181 652 8971, or phone our news team on 0181652 3683.
EVENTS
• 22-23 October: Seminar, Develop mg 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.
• 5-6 November World Car and Truck Forecast conference, Hotel InterContinental Mayfair, London. Contact: Fax 0181 545 6255. • 12 November: Motor Fraud, a one-day conference on tackling the problem of motor fraud and its implications for the insurance industry, London EC1. Contact: 01372 841010.
• 18 November: The operators group of the Insititute 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 bnpact 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 Rest Practice, City Logisitics and Reverse Logistics, at the Forum Hotel, London.
Contact: 01494 678000. • 1-3 December: Intermoclal '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 80204.6.
• 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, • 16-17 February 1999: International Conference, Health Effects of Vehicle Emissions, 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: Rrityrex '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.
SERVICES
Small web site
• Barclays has launched a page on its web site offering small businesses the chance to find out about the bank's small business seminar and events programme. Barclays offers a continuing seminar programme through local branches around the country. Topics range from the Euro and Year 2000 to marketing and setting up in business. The web site, updated monthly, is at higp 1/towta business.barclavs. caukimisdindex.htm
Contact: 0171 699 2865.
Insurance guide
• Insurance broker FMW Corporate Risks has produced a free guide to renewing commercial insurances. A checklist spells out the procedures to follow. Contact: 01245 348500.
BUSINESS MOVES
Disc-Lock outlets
• Volvo truck and bus dealer Bristol Truck and Bus has been appointed a distributor of the Disc-Lock safety wheelnut. The company, a division of Westward Commercial Vehicles, has 13 outlets in the South West and South Wales.
Contact 01795 844332.
Clothes horses
• Montracon has supplied six purpose-built step-frame garment carriers with heatshield insulated roof, and four stepframe boxvans to Express Trailers, Malta. It has also supplied a very large garment carrier to Gurmans of London for transporting 11,000 pairs of trousers and jeans and 8,000 suits per trip from Turkey. Contact: 01302 739292.
Derek Jones
• The Pip Bayley Truck Centre in Blunham, Beds has joined the Sc..nia UK network as a service dealer to Derek Jones Commercials. It is based at Unit 5, The Ridgeway Industrial Park, The Ridgeway, Blunham, Beds MK44 3DE.
Opening hours are MondayFriday 07.30-18.00hrs and Saturday 07.30-13.00hrs. Contact: 01767 641111.
PEOPLE
Montgomery
• David Mills has joined Montgomery TankServices as business development manager.
ROADWORKS
East Anglia
• Cambridgeshire: Al between Alconbury Hill and the Haddon Interchange, lane closures and a contratlow, until 31 December.
London
• A3: Clapham Common, Northside between A205 junction and A3216 junction. Restrictions in the one-way system, until 30 October.
The North-East
Ill West Yorkshire: M62 J27-29. Gildersome Interchange, Morley to Leeds (M1). Roadworks and restrictions. Can also affect M1 J42J43. until 31 December.
The North-West
• Lancashire: M6 between J28 Leyland and J27
Standish. Resurfacing: contraflow and 50mph limit, until 15 February 1999.
Scotland
• Dumfries and Galloway: A710 Southwick Bridge. Stewarty.
Roadworks, 7.5-tonne weight restrictions. Diversion signposted, until 21 November.
The South-East
• Buckinghamshire: M40 between Jla (M25) and J3 Wycombe East. Three narrow lanes both ways and a 50mph limit until 1 January.
The South-West
• Bristol: M5 J18
Avonmouth and J19 Gordano Services. Major roadworks on Avonmouth Bridge, until 1 January 2001.