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DRIVER'S MATE • The Truck Driver's Handbook is in three sections covering the law, the practicalities of the job on the road and useful information.
All aspects of the book reflect the driver's point of view, such as tachographs, driving hours, speed limits, roping and sheeting, vehicle coupling and lorry bans. There is also a chapter on first aid.
The information section covers breakdown services, motorway service areas, local radio stations and traffic area offices. Because the book is published in association with Ford, there is also a list of Ford truck dealers. Published by Kogan Page, 120 Pentonville Road, London Ni 9JN, it is a 248-page paperback, costing £4.95.
Lifting slings
• British Standard 6668 Textile lifting slings, Part I, Specification for lifting slings for general service made from natural and man-made fibre ropes, specifies requirements for the material, construction, rating, splicing and marking of fibre rope slings and gives recommendations for their safe use, inspection, care and storage.
Copies of BS 6668: Part I can be obtained from the Sales Department, British Standards Institution, Linford Wood, Milton Keynes MK14 6LE. Price is £23.90 (.29.56 to BSI subscribing members).
W HIM and Safety
• For companies unable to afford a full-time Health and Safety officer, the practical alternative might be to invest in a copy of Croners 'Health and Safety at Work'. The book is an easy-to-understand reference source on safety law and is up-dated every two months, keeping managers informed of new and existing legislation!regulations affecting health and safety at work.
It comes' in two parts: Part gives details of how the law is enforced, together with lists of addresses, details of prospective new developments and concise definitions of legal words and phrases. Part 11 is a comprehensive guide to the main legal requirements and common hazards.
The book's 500 pages are presented in a loose-leaf binder and every two months Croner will send completely updated pages. Price, which includes the up-to-date set of pages in the ring binder, the amendment service for one year and all postage and packing, is £44.40. The amendment service renewal rate after the first year is £25.80. The guide is obtainable form Croners Publications Ltd, Croners House, 173 Kingston Road, New Malden, Surrey K1'3 3SS. Tel: 01-942 8966, and can be examined on 10 days' free approval.
Pirate Video
• Rubery Owen-Rockwell is warning fleet operators to beware of buying non-genuine, spurious replacement parts.
The warning comes as part of RO-R's second video magazine. It includes an example of a new camshaft that looks better than the genuine article. In fact, the spurious camshaft had not been induction hardened and some of the dimensions were inaccurate.
The video magazine is available on free loan from RO-R distributors.