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Pulling the threads together
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G CM regulars know, we often review dealers' vvebsites and are
)roud to be associated with TruckNet UK. \ow we're going further...
sie ROADTRANSPOR T. corn ;•?)E:. Industry ROA1)TRANSPORTCOM'S iews is updated every weekday ;0 it can cover the latest events as hey happen.
Last week, for example, CM ;overed the upcoming London ow-emission zone (I,EZ) and he difficulties operators were laving in adapting to the new egislation. But no sooner had t gone to press than Transport or London granted operators a :8-day extension CM reporter )ylan Gray was able to update he story and post the revised • ersion on the web straight away ;imilarly, the website followed levelopments in the Hanbury )avies sale as they happened.
You can also see older stories n the website: either click on ie 'Related stories' links beside ach news story or use the Search inction at the top of each page of le site (beside the Roadtransport )n, logo).
atest on the blogs
lux bloggers don't confine iemselves to the working week new blog posts are put up every ay. In the past seven days we've had Brian W'eatherley talking about the Tuakau Ewe Fair. Finnish traffic webcams and Acco Butterboxes;you'll have to look at BigLorryBlog to find out more.
Meanwhile, Oliver Dixon has a strong opinion on the biofuels debate on his World Trucks Blog: "To our mind, it is a scam, a con and a 21st-century example of snake-oil, a universal solution dressed in a thin veneer of had science." Why don't you say what you mean. Oliver?
Most importantly. we can welcome two new bloggers to the Operators' Blog, now renamed Operators' Voice. John English is a Scania operator with bitter experience of fuel theft: "I've decided against fitting anti-siphon devices. The image of a pick-axe hole in the tank and the diesel gone is too clear:' The other new blogger is owner-driver Denis Fuller. He makes a good point which is not widely known: "Driver training is affeetingthe livestock sector at the moment. Reading CM I noticed the MD of Lantra is concerned that people are not aware of the Eli rules which mean every driver moving stock on journeys over 65km needs a certificate of competence. Speaking to people on the ground. most are aware of this but just aren't bothered about doing (or paying for) it!"
You can find direct links to all these stories at Commercial Motor's own web page, www. roadtransport.cornkm