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5,
6 and 7 August
2008,
Johannesburg
FleetWatch
Training & Development Academy presents its
revitalised course, “Getting to Grips with Owning
& Operating Truck Costs”. This 3-day workshop
provides a unique opportunity to step back from the
day-to-day running of a transport operation and review
innovative management techniques for evaluating
fast-changing road freight transport operations, beat
competition and earn an acceptable return on investment.
The course will prepare you to deal with the rapidly
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you need to face present and future challenges with
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Power
Blues . . .
Little attention has
been paid to the effect of the electricity power crisis on the
trucking industry writes Patrick
O’Leary who warns that
cost is being added on many fronts.
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Shed
No Load. . .
The power outages
brought about by Eskom's load shedding have affected all South Africans, both personally and in business.
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Special Report
– Road Safety
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Trucking’s
Rolling Maul . . .
While silverware in
the form of the Web Ellis trophy may sit proudly in SARFU’s
boardroom, there is a lot more metalwork being dragged to the truck
scrap heap, stained with human blood writes Paul Collings.
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Bone
Tired . . .
Driver
fatigue is a serious killer with as much as 50% of South
Africa’s fatal truck accidents being ascribed to drivers
dozing off behind the wheel reports Paul Collings.
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Safe
as Houses . . .
The truck cab is
the ‘home-away-from-home’ for drivers and assistants and
today’s premium truck models are more comfortable and safer
than most luxury cars.
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Seeing
is believing . . .
Transporters are
about to experience the ‘next wave’ in Fleet Management,
suggests one technology vendor whose product is an in-cab
video camera.
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Oxygen Kills. . .
The high incidence of road fatalities caused directly by tyre failure is a fact of South African motoring life and while both shocking and tragic, it may have more than a little to do with ignorance about what constitutes a healthy tyre, writes
Paul Collings.
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Road
Safety needs YOU!. . .
It’s up to YOU
over Easter to play a role in reducing the road accident carnage
that continues to plague our country. So says Ian Auret,
chairman of the Bridgestone/CARS (Committee for Active Road
Safety). |
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Technical Watch
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Hydraulics:
‘May the force work for you’ . . .
In today’s world
we ‘sweat the assets’ and
there’s no room for downtime because of ignorance over
hydraulics that drive materials handling equipment writes FleetWatch
technical correspondent
Dave Scott. |
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A
FleetWatch Exclusive
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Brake
& Tyre Watch . . .
In November last year,
the FleetWatch Brake &
Tyre Watch team took off for
KwaZulu-Natal to check out the condition of trucks driving on the N3
at night. What we found was not exactly what we expected.
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‘NON’
Reflective
tape
abounds. . .
DAWN WILLIAMS,
sales executive at 3M South Africa, joined us in KZN not only to
give training to the cops on the legislation and application of
conspicuity tape but also to check out the condition of the tape
on vehicles brought in for testing. |
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Night
Riders . . .
Our resident
trailer expert Wolfgang
Lehmann comments on
some of the faults picked up during the evening exercise in
KZN. |
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Brakes!
What brakes? . . .
Wabco’s Billy
Sinclair is shocked at the state of the braking systems on many of
the vehicles using our roads.
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Tyre
Faults . . .
Marcus Haw,
our tyre expert from Bridgestone South Africa, discusses tyre faults
picked up on the vehicles tested during our KZN exercise.
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Technical Watch
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Biodiesel
– Part Two . . .
FleetWatch correspondent
Max Braun discusses
issues and inputs that need to be considered in the overall
biodiesel debate. If ever anyone thought of biodiesel as being the
easy answer to our environmental woes, think again.
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What
is the scenario in the EU, UK and USA?. . .
TO GET A bird’s
eye view of what’s happening in the UK, we quote comments by
Louise Cole, deputy editor of Commercial Motor,
UK. “Acceptance is mixed - there are large companies such as
supermarket Asda who trialled it and decided it wasn't for them. |
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Oil
companies - what will their role be?. . .
IT IS WIDELY known
that the major oil companies support the introduction of a
national biofuels industry strategy and will ultimately play an
important part in the success of the programme. |
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What
do the OEMS say?. . .
PROBABLY THE
MOST important input in any discussion around the complex
issue of biofuels is what the vehicle and engine manufacturers
are saying and permitting for use in their equipment without
impairing warranties and expected useful life. |
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What
truckers need to know?. . .
Whether a
large or small fleet owner, a sub-contractor, SMME or
ownerdriver, it will not be wise to accept any biodiesel product
regardless of the claims made for it without undertaking a
simple but thorough investigation into the ability of the
supplier to consistently produce a quality product that will not
damage your vehicles. |
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Professional
Driving Permit PrDP Update. . .
The latest
amendments to the National Road Traffic Act published in the
Government Gazette dated 8 February 2008, (NO.30763, Vol 512)
will impact on transporters of dangerous goods, drivers and
training providers. |
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Learn
how to cope with change in
a tough business environment to
beat competition ...
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