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• Christmas exciting? The the lights, the festive board, angover, the overdraft, and . not all, there are those ss gifts from friends and 'es.
'haps this year you may lucky and get a CM annual ;ription in your stocking. you will be because that is you'll have your very CM during 1984. We've al, planned the content of our rial features in line with our readers tell us they to know more about.
1 Blakemore, Bryan Jarvis and Brian Weatherley — why don't they spell their names the same? — have all received a Christmas present. They've been promoted on the editorial team. This means new subjects and new looks in regular subjects in our 1984 issues.
Tim, as our Engineering Editor, has set his sights on Europe. He plans to get into the innermost recesses of the vehicle and component manufacturing plants to find out just what goes on in the name of progress.
He, with Welsh terrier tenacity, will not be put off or obstructed. His regular series will be well read and well worth reading.
Bryan Jarvis has fast developed into a top class CM road test engineer. As assistant technical editor, his road testing scope will develop.
It has been suggested that our road test reports are written to favour vehicle manufacturers. The strange thing is nobody has ever said that to Bill Brock, Bryan Jarvis or Tim Blakemore!
Now what about Brian Weatherley? He was our photographer until December 1. But Brian is a restless young man and he wanted to know more about transport and technology than a photographer needs to know. There was no stopping him and now he is satisfying both ambitions.
Someone said recently that computer language was one of the basic educational needs — the fourth r. "Computer literacy is now considered to be essential to successful business," they said.
We believed them, and one of Brian's regular features will be "Computers in Transport". It will be written in straightforward language because we are straightforward people and we wouldn't understand sophisticated computer talk anyway!
Another task for "Brian the restless" is the light-vehicle sector. This will fall into yet another new regular feature section.
Each month we will be publishing the latest news and views from the light-vehicle manufacturers and operators. In addition, Brian has laid on a series of long-term road tests, and we will be publishing one every month.
There's yet more from the Weatherley quill. New equipment for garage, office and warehouse will occupy some of his time to bring you, the reader, an improved service.
What else are we doing? Well, David Wilcox and Noel MIHier will be out and about in the various traffic areas picking up helpful hints from the freight and psv operating side of the industry. There are always new. developments and something to learn. We're ready to learn and pass the knowledge on. It's Christmas every Friday in CM!
The news team is probably the "nosiest" section of CM. Trade associations, trades unions, government departments are only a telephone call away fram Alan Millar's desk. He has a reputation for "beavering away" at a lead until he has the whole story.
But Alan can't do it all himself so we have "moles". That's where we get the real inside story early, 1984 should produce a few molehills which we can honestly build into mountains.
Surprise, surprise there's more to come. We have plans to cover a wide range of specialist subjects. They include bulk transport, tipper operation, safety, security, finance, coaching, European operation. But why tell more, we're keeping a few things up our sleeves to sur prise you and other editors.
However, what we can divulge are our plans to organise the Fleet Management Conference, Accessories and Components exhibition and sponsor once more the Lorry Driver of the Year Competition and Coachfair.
The Fleet Management Conference is a special occasion. It is our 21st, and already we have a galaxy of talent lined up for the rostrum. Jim Lockart of Transport Development Group takes the chair and Garry Turvey, ETA, Len Payne of Sainsburys, Jon Lawton, that renowned transport solicitor, and, we hope, Nicholas Ridley will present papers. Delegates will have the unique opportunity of putting questions to a manufacturers' panel. The men in the spor come from Bedford, Ford, A VW, British Leyland and Eat' To round the day off wt throwing a birthday party 4.30pm-6pm. This will everybody the chance to other delegates.
Right, that's it, but remer that not all has been reveal just enough to make it intE ing!
Oh yes, there is one 1 more. If you feel we are nec ing any part of the in& write to the editor. We will at every request with intereE