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CM'S 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 Commercial Motor, Haulage Factfile, kin H203, Quadrant House, The Quadrant, Sutton, Surrey SM2 SAS, fax 0181 652 8971, or phone our news team on 0181 652 3683. EVENTS • 1-2 August: Driver Hire Truckfest Scotland, Royal Highland Showground, Ingleston, Edinburgh. Contact: 01775 768661.
• 8-9 August: Weston Park International 4x4, military and all-wheel-drive family show, Weston Park, AS east of Telford, Shropshire. Contact: 0181 778 6498.
• 30-31 August: The pERFection show, Weston Park '98, Staffordshire. Contact: 01630 653625.
• 1 September: Tachodisc tour day-an open invitation for transport industry members to visit the Warrington production site, training school and analysis bureau and view new products available from Tachodisc. 10:3014:30hrs.
Contact: 01925 820088.
• 5-6 September: Institute of Transport Administration, Truckex & Lorry Driver of the Year finals, South Cerney Airfield, Cirencester, Gloucestershire. Contact: 01703 631380.
• 6 September: The Historic Commercial Vehicle
Society's 27th BournemouthBath Run, for vehicles over 20 years old.
Contact: 01985 214910.
• 16-17 September: Conference & Exhibition on Automotive Security, National Motorcycle Museum, Solihull, West Midlands.
Contact: 01372 367000.
• 16-17 September: Plant Engineering & Maintenance Show, the Telford Exhibition Centre-moves to the Harrogate International Centre on 3-4 November. Contact: 01342 825225.
• 21-24 September Codatu VIII, The International Transport Exhibition, Good Hope Centre, Cape Town, South Africa.
Contact 00 27 11 835 1565.
SERVICES
Advice for tanks
• Storage tank provider Terence Barker Tanks has introduced a free telephone advice line service for owners of fuel storage tanks confused by the mass of safety regulations concerning tank construction and maintenance. The Fuel Storage Helpline service is open Monday to Friday, 09:0017:00hrs.
Contact: 01376 330661.
Credit checks
• Tele-Check claims to offer a fast and effective solution for credit checking your customers, through providing instant credit status reports on any UK company. It claims these can be prepared by one of the UK's leading credit reference agencies and faxed back within five minutes for £750.
Contact: 01525 237907.
BUSINESS MOVES
Emery expands
• Emery Worldwide has boosted its North-West England regional operations by moving to the newly constructed cargo area at Manchester International Airport's World Freight Terminal. The 1,850m2 building will include logistics warehouse accommodation for pick-and-pack operations and a customs-bonded area. The new facility is located at Building 316, World Freight Terminal, Manchester International Airport, Manchester M90 5EW Contact: Tel 0161 436 5588. Fax 0161 437 0486.
Volvo centre
II Volvo Truck & Bus has opened its am state-of-theart sales and service centre on the Middlemarch Business Park in Coventry. Built on a two-acre site, and replacing a unit in the city centre, it includes an eightbay drive-through workshop and office accommodation with ample parking for commercial vehicles: Volvo Truck and Bus (South), Siskin Parkway West, Middlemarch Business Park, Coventry CV3 4SJ. Opening hours: Apart from 07:00-19:00hrs Sundays, the depot is open 24 hours a day.
Contact: 01926 414 357.
Nightspeed relocates.
• Express parcels carrier Nightspeed Services has moved its Reading and Chelmsford depots to larger premises to cope with increasing parcel volumes. The new Reading depot at Stadium Way Industrial Estate operates 14 delivery runs and is staffed by self employed drivers. The Chelmsford operation is based at Moss Road, Whitham.
Contact telephone and fax numbers for both depots are unchanged: Reading tel: 0118 942 2477; Chelmsford tel: 01376 502262.
PEOPLE
Securicor
• John Williams has been named chief executive of Securicor Distribution's three logistics businesses.
Network Operations
• Kevin Lynch has been appointed director of Network Operations, formerly known as Securicor Datatrak.
Montracon
• Gerald Wavell has been