* Promisingly Productive

When CM invited Werner Heubeck to present a paper on productivity to this year's Fleet Management Conference—in Manchester on September 18—we only knew the first-year results of......

* Where, Oh Where.

"Observer", that very readable columnist in the Financial Times, had a salutary piece for all parcels carriers to take to heart, in last Friday's issue. It went like this:— "I'm......

* Not The First

Drivers who were enjoying tuition last month in the very pleasant surroundings of the Northern Ireland RTITB centre on the former RAF station at Nutt's Corner, near Antrim, were......

* Sea Buses

When is a bus not a bus? When it's carrying goods by sea. No, I haven't gone completely crazy: the explanation of that riddle is really quite simple. Daimler is currently......

* New Image

Have you seen the new livery adopted for its vehicles by Freightliners Ltd.? Obviously keen to establish its new "corporate image" this NFC/BR subsidiary, in which the Freight......

* Death To Invaders

The fact that the powers-that-be take a poor view of loose loads that deposit chunks of stone and similar items on the highway is quite understandable. When they show serious......

* Close-up View

The recent paragraph on this page regarding professional drivers who are not perhaps as good as they could be gave rise to discussions among the spectators at the Leeds LDoY......

* Turnover Again

It appears that in the W. T. Noble/British Vita article in CM on June 20 we inadvertently "halved" the Noble turnover, which was in fact ilm. The correction is a pleasure to......