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Past Issues

June 2005

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Winter Driving & Flu The onset of winter brings a new set of risks associated with long distance driving. Poor visibility due to it getting darker earlier, and the usual onset of colds and flu makes winter driving a difficult task!

Cover Story

Midlands Mayhem... After years of having their pleas to have trucks banned from using the R103 fall on deaf 'official' ears, residents took to the streets in protest. Paul Collings was there to report on the gripes and proceedings. Our cover depicts one of the posters drawn by school children in support of the demands.

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Invaded by Demon... This piece encapsulates the feelings of the locals who live along the R103.

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Buy a Killer for R20... A story FleetWatch ran in our February 2005 edition on a new pneumatic kingpin that does away with suzie coils has opened a couple of cans of mopanie worms writes Paul Collings.

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SA's first aluminium competition... Here it is! South Africa's first competition related to the practical use of aluminium in the tucking industry. Let the games begin

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UsedTrucks

Used Trucks... Selling used trucks has always been a tricky business but how is the market faring given the booming sales of new trucks. FleetWatch does a quick talk-around the industry to gauge the trends.

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SAB goes the auction route... Following a pilot project which saw asset disposal returns in excess of 40% of current disposal methods, SA Breweries has appointed Tirhani Auctioneers, a 100% black owned company, as its Asset Disposal Professionals to dispose of its trucks and forklifts via auction when renewing its fleet.

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Volumes Up - Margins Down... Selling used trucks will always be a tricky business.

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Fleeting Frontiers... This special interest report is a 'snapshot' of what commercial transporters are currently looking for in a fleet management system and what suppliers of fleet management systems have to offer to meet these needs writes Paul Collings.

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All about the long haul... Local and international experience has enabled DigiCore to fine tune its product offerings to offer transporters tracking solutions and fleet management services that actually do boost overall fleet performance.

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Beyond the Truck... Developers of fleet management systems are seemingly moving to a point of consensus on the issue of integration with existing business software systems. But how will integration help deliver 'the goods' to fleet owners?

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Cop that Load... Truck hi-jacking still infects the transport industry but vehicle tracking systems and sharp stolen vehicle recovery teams have brought the numbers down and it is seldom a truck tractor is not recovered.

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Radio Still Rocks... With the introduction of digital communication technologies like GPS, GSM and GPRS into the fleet management arena, good old RF (radio frequency) connectivity between truck and base station is often regarded by young technocrats as ‘old technology’.

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What follows deregulation?... In February this year, the government deregulated the telecommunications industry allowing free market forces to permeate a playing field once the sole domain of Telkom, MTN, Cell C and Vodacom.

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Smarter and Simpler... The more truck tracking technology advances, the more data can be transmitted from the vehicle to the base station.

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Snapshot Hawkeye... Getting a clear picture of a highly competitive and complex industry is not always easy, especially when new products and services hit the market with astounding frequency.

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Getting to Grips with Training... Max Braun highlights a number of flaws in the current training systems that need to be ironed out.

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Success - it's all in the culture... "What makes the difference between failure and success in trucking," asks FleetWatch correspondent Dave Scott who finds the answer in Triton Express?

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Gripping the road and load... DaimlerChrysler demonstrates new safety features that are now being incorporated into LCVs like the Vito.

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Missed opportunity... When FleetWatch visited the Hanover truck show in Germany last year, we noticed that huge accent was placed on issues around safety and the environment.

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Response

Disastrous STATE of Equipment... The article headed 'Ag Shame ACSA' published in our April edition has solicited a number of responses

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DoT engine won't start... FleetWatch correspondent Dave Scott attended the Gauteng Legislation Workshop and came away feeling that the DoT is nowhere near to keeping up with the needs of the South Africa transport system.

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WorldWatch... Our regular series in which Frank Beeton keeps readers up to date with what is happening on the world's trucking stage

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A-Z of ROAD TRANSPORT All Your Questions Answered in One Book It's all inside...

You and Your Driver FleetWatch has always held the view that the driver holds the key to a trucking company's success. more...

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