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Past Issues

July 2006

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Competition

Find the Oldest Dyna... Join us on a trip down memory lane with Toyota Dyna, 1975 to 1984...

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Alcohol & Drugs... Driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs is a criminal offence and convicted drivers could have their drivers license suspended for six months or face up to six years in jail!

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Special Report & Cover Story

Grace under Pressure... Along with other new initiatives, the new 2% 'grace' represents an enhanced capability on the part of overload controllers to stem the tide of road wreckers writes Paul Collings.

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Of Pawns and Kings... For Hannes van Wyk, services manager, Trans African Concessions (TRAC), the fight against overloading is like a chess match, where pawns are expendable and kings remain standing. Paul Collings learns how TRAC plays the game.

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Science and Control... The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has for many years been an integral part of the team that sustains our national roads network. Paul Collings asked Roads Engineer at the CSIR, Michael Roux, about the latest developments in overload control

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Your Load our Road... The National Roads Agency's Geoff Ackerman tells FleetWatch how his organisation has driven the self regulation process through the Loading Accreditation Programme (LAP) which has evolved considerably over the past two years and is now called the Road Transport Management System (RTMS).

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Afrit profile... The trucking world sports many globally recognised 'family-built business empires' like DAF, Voith and TATA. South Africa has its own iconic trucking families too. In the truck trailer-building arena, one such name is van de Wetering, synonymous not only with the Afrit brand but also with over three decades of quality automotive engineering in this country.

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Legislation Watch

Traffic enforcement survives despite drawbacks... KZN's John Schnell outlines the consequences of poor performance and repeat offenders in road traffic enforcement in both the freight and passenger industries.

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Family Values... Being the first operation to send in a photograph of its trucks displaying the latest 2006 Arrive Alive/FleetWatch road safety stickers has won Wilton Bulk/Rigid an editorial spread in this magazine. Paul Collings writes the Wilton story.

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Brake drums: Price should not rule the day... FleetWatch technical correspondent Dave Scott urges more attention be paid by operators to the quality of brake drums being purchased.

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Used Trucks...

What's the status... It was around a year ago that FleetWatch did a round-up on the used truck market. How have things changed over this past year compared to then. Patrick O'Leary finds out.....

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