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traditional white collar areas such as the banks and building societies has led to an upsurge in demand for LGV training as the redundant workers seek to put their payoffs to gainful use This is best illustrated by the experience of training school Roadtrain, which offers a fiveday LGV training course fizr 1250. When the Sun newspaper gave a one-line mention of the course on its motoring page, Roadtrain was swamped with calls from aspiring truckies—it logged more than 100 calls in a day Roadtrain's boss Nick Smith says he wished he had advance warning so that extra telephonists could have been drafted in. In these recessionary times it seems even the Sun's readers have more on their minds than page three "lovelies" and bingo.
Setting aside the Sun, Smith had nearly 150 inquiries in the fortnight before the newspaper plug The business has grown from one truck five years ago to al3m turnover, five-depot operation. Roadtrain's clearly on the right track Nick Smith :100 reasons to be cheerful.
It'sa doll's life 5 he "patient" in this picture looks exceptionally pale—one wonders why the attendant ambulance workers and men-in-suits appear so unconcerned. Surely it's a case for Holby City Hospital and the dynamic team from BBC's Casualty?
Fortunately not—the "patient" is a resuscitation doll, part of a £12,000 donation which has also paid for a heart simulator for Somerset Ambulance Service. Heron Distribution raised the money through the efforts of employee Ian Cramb and four friends who undertook a sponsored week-long motorcycle tour of Britain's coast. Heron also donated £5,000 from the Ronson Foundation, its chief shareholder. Rats! it's a stowaway 3 ornish delivery driver Christine Jones screeched to a halt and leapt from her vehicle in the middle of a main road when she realised she was sharing her van with an unwelcome stowaway—a huge rat She noticed the rodent, calmly preening itself in the passenger seat, as she was heading to her home at Breage, near Helston, with a load of industrial clothing.
Abandoning the vehicle near Liskeard, she jumped screaming from the van: "I was gobsmacked when I looked round to see it in the passenger seat," she say& The police drove the van into a nearby layby and set a trap inside. "I have never seen anything like it in my 2,5 years in the job," PC Roa Williamson, says, adding that Mrs Jones was shaking and could not be persuaded to go anywhere near the vehicle.
The Hawk sympathises— even Commercial Motor's intrepid roadtesting team might find the rat-on-board feature an unwelcome addition to the cab! It's a duck's life potted on its way to the test match in India, some of the English cricket team in full flight Helperby is definitely the appropriate destination—Gower and out Readers near to any similarly eccentric signs are welcome to send in a picture (colour please) for inclusion on this page. The Hawk will reward those published with a £10 gift voucher.
Double trouble otential villains in Burpham, Surrey must have been apprehensive when the local police took on board 'two' new patrol cars. Fortunately for the villains, it was one car with different numberplates front and back. The less than sharp-eyed police drove it for four days before noticing. Could this be a clever ruse by a dealer desperate to bump up sales figures?
A hand in the birds arceline has joined forces with its customer Comasec Dipco to help clean up the Shetland Isles following the disastrous oil spillage from the tanker Braer. The Bristol depot of Parceline has donated free transport for 500 pairs of rubber gloves to the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Birds, which will use them to clean birds caught in the spillage.