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Operations
Grain transport • Permethrin smoke pellets are recommended as the most economic method of treating lorries that have carried infested grain. This recommendation is in a new code......
Securicor Voice Bank • Securicor Has Added A New Message
service to its range of cellular radio products, called Securicor Voicebank. When Securicor Co-Phone users are away from their vehicles, callers can he redirected to Voice bank......
Finance
VAT on allowances • VAT registered hauliers who provide meals or accommodation to their employees for monetary consideration, must account for VAT charged on the food or......
Services
More Roads diesel • Roads, the Winchesterbased hauliers co-operative, has extended its network of diesel bunkering facilities to 14. The latest site is at Poplar Truck Stop at......
Safety
Dangerous proposals • The Health and Safety Commission has published a consultative document which contains proposals to revise and combine the two existing Approved Codes of......
Ideas To Cut Accidents • A £2,000 Prize Is Being
offered by insurance brokers Leslie & Godwin for ideas that might help reduce the frequency, severity and cost of road accidents. More than 5,000 lives are lost each year due to......
Publications
Transport cost tables • With recent changes in fuel prices and insurance premiums it is more difficult than ever to estimate operating costs. So it is timely that the latest......
Tachographs
MotoMeier switch • Sales, distribution and servicing of MotoMeter automotive instruments has been switched from Helia to Spee dograph Richfield, based in Nottingham. All......
Training
Birmingham Poly courses • Birmingham Polytechnic's new part-time and in-service course prospectus for the 1986/1987 session is now available. A number of transport study courses......
Events
LDOY finals '86 • Next weekend more than 200 of the country's top truck drivers meet at the Cranfield Institute of Technology to compete in the Lorry Driver of the Year......