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In celebration of short queues...
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Oliver Dixon reflects on the space and elbow rc at a show which seems more successful than yet has fewer visitors...
S'odd, you know. Its possible to park a car at the Metropole next door to the NEC and the attendant beanfest that is the Show. It's also possible to get served at the bar in the same establishment without developing cobwebs. Granted, it me that the entire CV industry has gone teetotal and taken the k But it may also be a case of visitor numbers being down.
It's a happy thought, redolent of space and freshness. Signing in this year in the name of my accountant, so he gets the horde of junk mail that follows any trade show ar optimism abounds. But, closer inspection on this, the first day of the 2004 CV Show confirms -with a combination 01 compactness and stale air -that this gig is as popular as E Possibly as a result of a reasonably happy economy, poss as a resuit of the fact that it's quite a nice early Spring day, interest in the business of road transport looks never to ha\ been higher.
In excess of 700 people have ponied up the necessar) exhibit, and this causes a thought. Three days, 700 stands 200 stands per day... I don't think so. Truth is, and it's a worrying truth for those of us who have come to enjoy the single show date in our diaries, that the CV Show may just I getting a little too successful.
But then again, anyone who earns a crust from the business of trucks is going to be heartened by the messac that a busy national trade show sends out. Indeed, anyone with a vested interest in the state of the UK economy narr everyone should be pretty happy that road transport, a k( barometer of economic activity, looks to be on the up.