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CM'S Haulage Factfile page provides busy operators with brief news items on: forthcoming events, services, business products, training, company moves, personnel changes, truck thefts, UK fuel prices, and details of the worst congestion blackspots on our already overcrowded road network. If you have information for inclusion in this section send it in to Commercial Motor. Haulage Factfile, Rm H203, Quadrant House, The Quadrant, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5AS, fax 0181 652 8971, or phone our news team on 0181 652 3670.
EVENTS
• 3-4 February: Flame Retardants '98, The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London.
Contact: 0181 318 3362, • 6-14 February: European Road Transport Show, Amsterdam.
Contact: 00 31 205491212.
• 17 February: Chartered Institute of Transport Conference, Transport Planning and Management-The Impact of the New Political and Organisational Environment, The Berkeley Hotel, London, Contact: 0171 233 7600.
• 17-19 February: Smart Card '98 exhibition and conference, Olympia 2, London. Contact: 01895 454533.
• 25-26 February: Freight Transport Association Industry's Freight Conference, Belfry, Warks, Contact: 01892 552302.
• 31 March: One-day seminar on "communicating" organised by the Brewery Transport Advisory Committee at Forte Coventry Posthouse hotel. Chaired by Commercial Motor editor Brian Weatherley.
Contact: 01708 471376. • 27 April 1998: Freight Transport Ass(xnation annual dinner, London Hilton with a keynote speech by John Prescott MP.
Contact: 01892 526171.
SERVICES
LEB on track
• London Electricity's 65van emergency service fleet has been equipped with StarTrack, a satellite tracking and fleet control system developed by GEC-Marconi Communications. The units, similar in size to a car radio, determine precise vehicle location from Global Positioning System satellites. Star-Track also contains a personal alarm.
Contact: 01705 260060.
Museum season
• The British Commercial Vehicle Museum will re-open for the season on Sunday 5 April. It will then be open on Sundays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays and also bank holidays until the end of September. In October it will only open on Sundays. The museum opening times are 10:00-17:00hrs.
Contact: 01772 451011.
BUSINESS MOVES
Different hours
• Roxley Models of Cranleigh, Surrey has changed its business hours due to compiler Frank RiceOxley's recent illness. The new hours are: MonWed, 10:00-13:00hrs and 14:00-17:00hrs; Thurs, closed; Fri, 10:00-13:00hrs and 14:0017:00hrs; and Sat, 10:0013:00hrs only. Roxley's updated catalogue has just been produced.
Contact: 01483 271931.
Bigger branch
• Nationwide Crash Repair Centre's refurbished Swinton branch is due to open this month. The centre, with its added 2,400m2, is said to be one of the largest and best equipped in the country. Contact 01992 515200.
PEOPLE
Lift Truck
• Lift Truck Distribution has appointed Peter Luczka to look after the company's marketing activities.
P&O
• Richard Hem has been appointed a director of P&O. Sir William Heseltine has become a non-executive deputy chairman of P&O Australia,
CDS Employment Services
• John Hopkins has been appointed as the new business development manager at CDS Employment
Services.