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• Quicks, as well as building, selling and servicing commercial vehicles, is recognised as a reliable "casualty doctor" by insurance companies. The truck division has opened an integrated bodybuilding and repair facility at Trafford Park — see page 5 — and recently obtained the contract to straighten out a crashed lorry after quoting £1,058 for the work while a rival asked £385.
"The assessors know that Quicks' quote reflected a proper understanding of what was required," says service manager Barry Oatway.
"The other guy just wasn't being realistic. We'll save you a few pounds when we can — by taking the fittings off a wrecked door and putting them on a new one, for example — but not by ignoring essential work."
IN The absence of direct contact with .consumers will not exclude companies from the provisions of the new Consumer Protection Bill, says Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders legal advisor Adrian Watts.
Watts explained to Garage Equipment Association delegates at a conference that anyone injured by their products can have a claim under this legislation. This will include anyone involved in producing the products, packaging them, transporting them or using them in the course of employment.
EEC Directive 374/85 will oblige each member state to have in force by July 1988 a regime of strict liability in which the definitions of "producer" and "defective" will be crucial.
Anyone who imports a product into the EEC will be regarded as the producer.
• Everyone who works in a vehicle workshop knows bow easy it is to get hurt, but no one knows just how many people are hurt. The nearest figures available suggest that 13,000 accidents happen to employees in UK garages each year, but this includes filling stations as well as vehicle workshops.
The worst injuries involve around 55 amputations each year, and there are a further 1,300 fractures reported. Eight people die in UK garages m an average year. These accidents all refer to notifiable accidents which result in not less that four days' absence from work. It has been suggested that there are 25 times as many non-notifiable accidents that still require first aid.