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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 5PIS, fax 0181 652 8971, or phone our news team on 01816523670.
EVENTS
• A conference on smart card technology's impact on urban transport, Smart City, will be on 10 October at Edinburgh, Carlton Highland Hotel ; 15 October at Rotherham, Swallow Hotel ; 17 October at Cardiff, Forte Post House Hotel ; 21 October at Swindon, Hilton National ; 22 October at Borehamwood, Elstree Moat House.
Contact: Holly James on 01763 249933.
• 11-12 October: The 7th South of England Scammell Road Run at the Whitbread Hop Farm, Paddock Wood, Kent.
Contact: 01622 813451.
• 13-17 October: Transportation & Supply Chain Marketing Strategy, Northwestern University, Illinois.
Contact: 001 847.491. 3226.
• 14 October: RHA Northern Region--open meeting for international operators at the Huddersfield Hilton Hotel at 20:00hrs. Contact: 01253 781513. • 15 October: A Chartered Institute of Transport Conference on Integrating Land Use and Transport Planning at the Millbank Media Centre, London Contact: 0171 277 3640.
• 15-20 October: Equip'Auto 97 at the ParisNord Exhibition Centre. Contact: 0171 221 3660.
• 16-17 October: Federation Nationale des Transports Routiers' annual convention, Grand Palais, Lille.
Contact: Paris
0144290429.
• 20 October: IEEE Lecture Electronics in the Motor VehicleImpact, Implications and the Futurewill be held at the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Incorporated Engineers, Savoy Hill House, Savoy Hill. London.
Contact: 0171 836 3357 • 18 November:
Integrating Transport & the Environment-using best practices to green freight transport, Jarvis Penns Hall, Sutton Coldfield
Contact: 01892 552302.
• 22-25 April, 1998: IRU World Congress on Road Transport-driving trade and tourism, Marrakesh. Contact: 0041 22 918 2700.
PEOPLE
Bibby • bin Speak is now a divisional director at Bibby Distribution. Responsibilities include key account development and marketing. And Paul Cullingford has joined the company as finance director, based at the head office in Liverpool.
Key Lease
• Jonathan Andrew, previously with TIP, has joined Key Lease as managing director Europe.
Driver Hire
• John Tilley has been appointed national accounts manager at Driver Hire to service its franchisees.
ROR-Rockwell
• Tom Hughes joins trailer axle and suspension manufacturer ROR at Llay, near Wrexham, as group technical director.
PHH
• Swindon-based PHH Vehicle Management Services' new PR manager is Lindsay Mason.
Stamford International
• Fuel-pump specialist Stamford International has hired Patrick Wilson as sales manager for the UK and Ireland.
SERVICES
More trains
• Railfreight Distribution has increased the number of weekly intermodal services between the UK and Paris, and between the UK and Barcelona. There is also a second service to Muizen in Belgium.
Contact: 0171 922 4284.
Van dealer
• East London's Forest Gate has a new Fiat Van Centre, Libra, offering servicing and vehicle recovery for the full range of Fiat light CVs. Contact: 0181 503 4006.
Acquisition
• Leyland Daf and LDV dealership Ford & Slater has bought Peterborough Engineering the main Foden distributor for Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.
Contact: 0116 263 0630.
Home help
• Midlands Volvo distributor The Hartshorne Group has invested in a "frontline support van" to provide servicing on site. Contact: 01922 704600.
TRAINING Don't delay
• Friendberry reminds drivers whose ADR certificates expire in the next 12 months of the delay between taking the refresher course and receiving new certificates.
Contact: 01984 656310.
in the firing line
• Padgett Thompson is offering a one-day seminar on the legal aspects of dismissing employees. Contact: 01753 890700.
College tie
• I,DV has joined forces with Sutton Coldfield College to open a Learning Centre at its Birmingham factory for employees, dealers and suppliers.
Contact: 0121 327 4487.
PRODUCTS Flex directory
• The new 300-page Mastedlex hose catalogue is out, and includes Carllex Super, a new crushproof garage exhaust hose. Contact: 0161 626 8066.
Its behind you
• Brigade Electronics is launching an upgraded version of the Clarion Backeye vehicle CCTV system with a shadeenhancement function. Contact: 0181 852 3261.
Heat seeker
• Graham & White Instruments is introducing a compact infra-red thermometer. Weighing 200g, the PT31.F Thermohunter measures in the range from minus 20 to 400° C by pushing a button and aiming at the target.
MOVES UVG expansion
• UVG Ambulances has opened a factory in Brighouse, West Yorkshire to handle light van conversions. Contact: 0171 430 0788.
Space race
• Increased business at BCR Car & Van Rental's Chelmsford branch has dictated a move to bigger premises on Rainsford Lane. Contact: 01203 718700.
ROADWORKS The South
• London, Al: Between Watford Way, Mill Hill Circus and Great North Way,
• Fiveways Corner. Carriageway reduced to two lanes for long-term roadworks until 31 May 98.
The West and Wales
• Bristol, M5 J18-19: Contraflow in operation across the Avonmouth Bridge with a 50mph limit. Regular rush-hour delays until August 98.
The Midlands and East Anglia
• West Midlands, M6 J7-J9 BirminghamWednesbury: Roadworks and a contrailow with a 50mph limit until 29 December.
The North
• West Yorkshire, MI J43-.142, Stourton to Lofthouse (M62): contraflow and a 50mph limit are in place until 13 July 1998.