• Commercial Motor believes that the transport industry can do
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more to encourage better standards of service for truck drivers on ferries, so this special ferries issue includes a ballot form for you to vote for your favourite — and least favourite — ferry service.
The ballot is designed to bring home to ferry operators just what truck drivers and operators need from a ferry service, and will recognise the ferry services which do most to make truck drivers comfortable.
• PAGE 50: BOAT VOTE
This is your chance to raise the standard on ferrieS operating from the British Isles, so be sure to vote on the Favourite Ferry ballot form.
Everyone who votes will receive a free Trucks Keep GB Trading bumper sticker — and you will be in with a chance of winning up to 10 free journeys on the ferry service of your choice.
• PAGE 53: FERRY GUIDE
Elsewhere in the ferry guide we include a comprehensive, up-to-the-minute list of addresses and contact numbers for ferry companies, together with a map of every freight ferry service currently operating from the British Isles.
• PAGE 46: FERRY TEST
We have also gone to sea with Sealink from Dover to Calais; with Schiafino from Ramsgate to Ostend; and with Caledonian MacBraine from Ullapool to Stornoway — three routes serviced by three very different operators, and with very different levels of service.
• PAGE 42: DANGER LOADS
Finally, last year's Herald of Free Enterprise disaster drew attention to the types of hazardous goods that are sometimes carried by trucks on RO-RO ferries. This special issue includes a guide to legislation covering the transport of hazardous goods by ferry, and defines what constitutes hazardous goods.