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9 the past few weeks we have been ;y organising the Fleet Management lerence, and a good day is now u red. It is our 20th FMC and
rropriately the theme is: The Next Five rrs. We summarise all the papers next ek (and the discussions are reported the owing week). We start with Doug las 'ley on industrial relations, who ieves, in view of the Conservatives' leral election victory, that we can look Nerd to "rare elements of stability". never, what is Labour's view of the Jre of transport? Robert Hughes MP is next. Steve Abel, of NFC Parcels, looks the haulage operator's crystal ball and ?contributor Frank Woodward deals h the own-account side. Should we buy tish? Leyland Group md Ron Hancock ues that case, and Yorkshire LA Majn V. H. J. Carpenter looks forward in licular to effective legislation in 1984. Id their opinions in CM next week. knd among several other special tures, we have two road tests for you rt week:
I you are in the market for a van under tonnes gvw you have never had it so 3d, because the number of models and 'erent specifications currently on offer is
enormous. So wide is the selection that the final choice can be extremely difficult — which is where CM's light van tests come in. They are considered the most comprehensive guides available to how different models perform. Next week the focus is on Volkswagen's LT280, powered by the latest VW six-cylinder diesel engine. All the relevant data on this model, including fuel consumption, payload, critical dimensions, and Tim Blakemore's opinion on its performance are in next week's road test report.
• Traders searching for a suitable, lighter car-derived van can often be side-tracked by some of the small, Japanese vans or those pick-ups converted into vans by using detachable tops. However, several of the "high-spec" vans not only catch the eye but deliver an impressive performance too as we will see from Bryan Jarvis' road test report on the 1.3-litre petrol-engined Astra van from Bedford.