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A winning formula

3rd September 2009
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Next month, our ever-popular Fleet Management Conference fields a team of experts to ensure you stay compliant and profitable during recessionary times. Don't miss out book your place now.

ruin is paved s,vith good intentions. And there's no better intention than keeping your business profitable during one of the worst economic slumps in living memory. But how do you avoid business pressures distracting you from your 0-licence obligations? In short, how can you stay focused on keeping out of court — as well as in the black'?

Fortunately, Commercial Motor, its sister title Motor Transport and associated website Roacitransportcorn have teamed up to deliver the Sixth Fleet Management Conference that looks at both the law and your bottom line.

Our Comply and Survive conference, on 21 October at Villa Park, Birmingham, provides a double-header that will help keep fleet managers and operators profitable, professional and legal. Chaired by former CM editor-in-chief Brian Weatherley, the event kicks off in the morning with top transport lawyer Jonathan Back house taking delegates through the latest road haulage During his presentation you'll hear all about the new graduated fixed penalties and how they affect operators as well as drivers, the latest digitach and record-keeping regulations, the forthcoming changes to the Transport Tribunal — the truck operators' Court of Appeal' — and other key legal must-know topics.

Next, John Cotner, product manager for UK and Ireland at Volvo Trucks, will explain all the legislation coming out of Brussels that affects the trucks you run now and will run in the future — including the new Euro-5 emission regs, vehicle stability control systems and other items planned in the EC road safety programme. He'll also talk about what the latest headlamp aim tests from VOSA mean.

After a short break, we'll look at how to solve the problems of working at height and reducing accidents involving HGVs with Phil Murphy, network operations director at the Royal Mail. He'll be bringing along the Royal Mail's thought-provoking Safety Concept Artie (CM 21 May) to provide a practical demonstration on how to keep drivers out of harm's way.

Then it's time to hear from Neil Barlow, head of enforcement at VOSA, on how the agency will be applying the law governing the Compulsory Training Directive — Driver CPC — at the roadside and in particular what VOSA expects from you as the "controlling force'?

During the lunch and coffee breaks, delegates will be able to see the latest 'ground-based' system from Moffett, which allows a driver to mount and demount a Mounty forklift from the back of a truck or a trailer, but without having to climb up onto it. in


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