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CM's Haulage Factfile pages provide 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 Commercsal Motor, Haulage Factfile. Rni H203, Quadrant House, The Quadrant Sutton, Surrey SM2 5AS. fax 0181 652 8971, or phone our news team on 0181 652 3683.
EVENTS
• 9 July: Brake All Party Group For Road Safety meeting: Policing our roads for safely, are the resources there? Jubilee Room, Houses of Parliament, 15:1517:30hrs.
Contact: 01306 741113.
• 1-2 August: Driver Hire Truckfest Scotland, Royal Highland Showground, Ingleston, Edinburgh. Contact 01775 768661.
• 8-9 August: Weston Park International 4x4, military and all-wheel-drive family show, Weston Park, AS east of Telford, Shropshire. Contact 0181 778 6498.
• 30-31 August: The pERFection show, Weston Park '98, Staffordshire. Contact: 01630 653625.
• 5-6 September Institute of Transport Administration, Truckex & Lorry Driver of the Year finals, South Cerney Airfield, Cirencester, Gloucestershire. Contact 01703 631380.
• 6 September: The Historic Commercial Vehicle Society's 27th Bournemouth Bath Run, for vehicles over 20 years old.
Contact 01985 214910.
• 16-17 September Conference & Exhibition on Automotive Security, National Motorcycle Museum, Solihull, West Midlands.
Contact: 01372 367000.
• 16-17 September: Plant Engineering & Maintenance Show, the Telford Exhibition Centre-moves to the Harrogate International Centre on 3-4 November. Contact: 01342 825225.
• 21-24 September Codatu VIII, The International Transport Exhibition, Good Hope Centre, Cape Town, South Africa.
Contact 00 27 11 835 1565.
• 24 September BRF Annual Conference, Volvo Trucks Conference Centre, Warwick. Cost BRF Members £75, non-members • O (cheques made payable to BRF). Contact: 0171 703 9769.
• 1-11 October: International Road Haulage Show, Paris Expo, Porte de Versailles.
Contact: 0171 221 3660.
• 3 October First AGM of The Leyland Society, which was formed on 14 June. Several hundred truck and bus enthusiasts and former Leyland employees will be invited to the meeting, at the British Commercial Vehicle Museum in Leyland. Membership costs £10. Contact: 01772 451011.
• 13-15 October Supply Chain Efficiency Seminar '98, Earl's Court Conference Centre, London.
Contact: 01234 750323.
• 20-21 October: Second MIRA International Conference on Vehicle Aerodynamics, Hilton National Hotel, Coventry. Contact: 01203 355584.
BUSINESS MOVES
TLS moves
• Vehicle rental and contract-hire company TLS is to open its first depot in Northern Ireland. Launching on 1 August in Belfast, it will offer a complete range of vehicles and back-up services. The company has appointed Alan McCue as market development manager for Ireland. TLS has also moved its North-East depot across town in Gateshead from its Felling Industrial Estate site to Eleventh Avenue North on the Team Valley Trading Estate. Contact 0161 743 4000.
Name change
• Replacement exhaust and catalytic converter manufacturer and distributor Timax Exhaust Systems has changed its name to Arvin Replacement Products. Timax's parent company TESH, the replacement exhaust and catalyst manufacturing group serving the European aftermarket, will be known as the European Exhaust & Catalyst division of Arvin Replacement Products.
Contact: 01253 401181.
Lawyers merge
• Chester-based solicitors The Wake Dyne Partnership has merged with road transport solicitors Jonathan S Lawton. The Wake Dyne Partnership was the first firm in the country to specialise exclusively in road haulage, minerals, waste and environmental law when it was established in May 1997. The new firm will be known as Wake Dyne Lawton and will operate from Tattenhall, near Chester, with another office in Manchester.
Contact: 01829 773100.
SERVICES
Containerlift video
• Containerlift Services has produced a 10-minute video to mark the imminent delivery of its 10th Containerlift vehicle. The company places containers on the ground for clients who have to pack large or awkward items. Most of its clients are those who do not ship goods by container in sufficient quantity to provide their own loading bays or ramps.
Contact 01491 837892.
FERRIES
Dart Line
• Dart Line is taking on two new ships for use on its twice-daily freight-only service between Thames Europort and Vlissingen. The ships will be able to carry up to 80 trailers and can accommodate 12 drivers. Contact: 01322 293344.
TRUCK RACING
European Cup
• Leader board after Round Four, France.
1. Kreutzpoinmer (MAN): 157.
2. Parrish (M-B): 198.
3. Oestreich (M-B): 143.
4. Faure (M-B): 129.
5. Luostarinen (Cat-TRD): 115.
6. Ellen Lohr (M-B): 89.
PEOPLE
Christian Salvesen
• Koert Damveld has been appointed the new managing director of Christian Salvesen's Food & Consumer Logistics Division in Europe.
Lift Truck
• Chris Moisey has been appointed technical opera
tions manager at Lift Truck Distribution.
GEA
• Paul Cannon has been elected president of the Garage Equipment Association (GEA).
TIP Europe
• David Lee has been named as the new president and managing director of TIP Europe.
ROADWORKS
East Anglia
• Cambridgeshire, Al Alconbury to Haddon: Restrictions, until 31 December.
London
• Homerton, East Cross Route, A106: Carriageway reduced to two lanes both ways, until 23 March 1999.
The Midlands
• West Midlands, M5 between J3 Birmingham (West) and J2 Dudley: Resurfacing work with narrow lanes both ways.
The North-East
• Lancs, M6 between J32 M55 Interchange north of Preston and J33 Lancaster: Contraflow with a 50mph speed limit, until 1 August.
Scotland
• Dundee city, A92 Tay Road Bridge: Carriageway reduced to one lane both ways, until 1 November.
The South-West
• Bristol, M5 J18-19: Roadworks on Avonmouth Bridge, until 1 January 2001.