Next Week
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SAFETY and security: these are the particular aspects of road transport that provide the theme for several features in next week's issue. Among other articles we include a five-page road test of a Foden 350; Cross Channel is back and we conclude our long running Vehicle Technology series. Our news pages will include a report from the Hanover Fair.
• The biggest ever International Fire, Security and Safety Exhibition and Conference (IFSSEC) gets underway next week, with an anticipated 700 exhibiting companies at Olympia, London. News reporter Tim Cobb will be doing the rounds to bring you a full exhibition report next week.
• Why are webbing straps the answer to modern freight restraining problems? A special correspondent next week writes on their safety advantages. Traditional load restraint methods are an unnecessary gamble in today's changing transport environment, he explains. Operators still using ropes and chains presumably don't understand the G forces involved and may erroneously believe that modern webbing straps are significantly more expensive. If you haven't done so already, re-assess your restraint methods; don't miss this feature in CM next week.
• Operators' trade associations and other interested parties have another 12 days to submit their reactions to the draft spray suppression regulations and their underlying draft British Standard. There has been some severe criticism of both but this does not help the operator and it is unlikely that the final versions will be substantially different. Next week David Wilcox simply explains what the operator will need to do and what products meet the draft standard — not all the spray suppression products currently on sale will be legal.
• Changes in the speed regulations remove any previous justification in speeding. Bill Brock looks at top-speed limiters which claim to pay for themselves in reduced fuel consumptions.
• Tipper safety on site is the latest aspect of haulage the Health and Safety Executive wants to get its teeth into. The HSE views the industry as ignorant, undertrained, and in need of greater safeguards. Jack Semple reports.
• Noel Millier has been to see how buses can be made easier for the disabled to use without spending a great deal of money or making vehicles more complicated. He has also seen German TUV officials inspecting British coaches to award them with the coveted Tempo 100 certificates to allow high speed coaching on German Autobahns.
• A Foden S106T 6x4 powered by a turbocharged and aftercooled Cummins 350hp has been around our Scottish route. It turned in a pretty fast journey time as Bryan Jarvis reports next week.