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• Commercial Motor's reporters capture the mood at the Royal Lancaster Hotel as around 300 delegates respond to the views expressed by the eminent speakers at the Fleet Management Conference on the subject "Profit through Safety". We also bring you news of the FMC mock trial, in which magistrate, Douglas Anderson, passes judgement on the operator of vehicle C123 ABC which was found to have defective brakes. . . .
• Going bankrupt can happen to any businessman, anytime. This is especially true in the transport industry where eight haulage firms go to the wall every working day. We give some specialist advice on how to stay solvent, and take a critical look at the new insolvency laws which came into effect at the beginning of this year.
IN George Inch joined BRS in the middle of last year, and has been busy reshaping the way the company sells and projects itself. He explains the ideas and principles behind the changes he has made to the giant company, which still contributes a third of the National Freight Consortium's turnover.
• The Cummins len-litre engine has achieved remarkable success in the tipper market, but Gardner has been fighting back with new engines, introduced a couple of years ago. We go to the Smith and Sons quarry in the Midlands to test one of the company's eight-wheelers — a Foden — powered by one of the new Gardner engines, the 201kW, 6LXDT.