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BY THE HAWK
• Get 6-7 May down in your diaries as next year's most important show date — that's when Commercial Motor's hugely popular Truckfest will be held, again at the East of England Showground, Peterborough.
As well as taking top place on the show truck calendar, the industry rates Truckfest as an essential venue for serious promotion: "We do at least as much business at Truckfest as the 'traditional' shows — if anything, Truckfest has the edge," says Seddon Atkinson's Robert Wine, Watch this space for more details in coming weeks.
• Is there anything unusual about you or your organisation? The hawk wants to know about it.
Do you have the most shorttempered workshop manager? The dirtiest canteen? The most inaccessible deliveries? The oldest driver?
How about more mundane specialities, like the biggest fleets, or most northerly (and southerly) company. You could earn yourself a mention in CM's bumper Christmas issue.
We will also send free CM tee-shirts to the funniest (or strangest) road haulage yarns published in the Christmas Bird's Eye View. Send your record claims and reminisc ences to the Hawk do Commercial Motor.
El Are you a woman in the transport industry? Commercial Motor is looking for female drivers, fitters, owneroperators and transport managers to take part in a feature.
We want to find out whether sexism and opposition to women is rife in the industry (heaven forbid) and, if so, how women have got round these problems.
If you have something to say, phone or write to features editor, Murdo Morrison, Conimercial Motor, Quadrant House, The Quadrant, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5AS, or phone 01-661 3678. • Have the interest rates left anybody out there with a sense of humour? In a mood of yuletide fun the chaps at Kenning Tyres Services have enlisted the well-known cartoonist McLachlan (he of Punch and Private Eye) to illustrate their 1990 calender. Not content with that, they called up the Hawk with a wizard wheeze: "We've got this cartoon that needs a caption," they said. "How about running a caption competition on your Bird's Eye View page?"
Ever keen to guard the interests of my readers, I rapped out the all-important questions: "What's in it for them?" After a rapid bout of head scratching my man sportingly came up with a Jereboam of Champagne for the winner, and a standard bottle for two runners up. Just so you don't think I'm an ignor amus, a Jereboam is the equivalent of four bottles. "Sounds good," says 1, desperately wondering how I couli divert said bubbly into my bird bath. So get cracking, and sem your entries to the Hawk and, together with Kenning Tyres, I'll choose a winner and reproduce it on your favourite page in the New Year.
The only rules are that it must be funny, and in the CM mail tray before 23 December.
If you can't think of a suitable rib tickler you can still have a laugh with your very own free copy of the McLachlan-illustrated Kenning Tyres Services Calender by calling them on (0246) 220220.
Whoever heard of a Camel with a punctured hump anyway?