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Stilled at the Edge of the Floods The terrible floods that swept across Mozambique, Mpumalanga, Northern Province and Zimbabwe in February - and into March in Mozambique - showed that the southern African region is not well equipped for disaster management. FleetWatch surveyed the happenings and concludes that truckers can prepare for a long haul into an uncertain future in the flood-hit eastern half of Southern Africa. |
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As FleetWatch was going to press with this story, we heard that Mozambique was a mere nine hours away from once again being hit by a cyclone - this time in the north of Beira. How much can one nation take? Not much more as FleetWatch found out during a visit to Maputo to bring back a first-hand account of the impact of the devastating floods on that country. |
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You're about to leave home for the office when you get the call. It's your ops manager. One of your trucks has been involved in an accident. It's a big one and the press is already on the scene. Are you prepared to handle this? Let's hope so because being unprepared for such eventualities could sink your business. |
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Distribution : South African Style The choice between owning a fleet, renting, leasing or going the owner-driver path is a complex one indeed. There seems to be a synergy between the latter three with logistics companies renting vehicles, rental companies providing logistics services and owner-drivers using leased vehicles. FleetWatch takes a look at this multi-layered system. |
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With Europe looking towards adopting the turning corridor method of exercising some control over artics and combinations other than by overall length and wheelbase, FleetWatch leads evidence to prove that wheelbase is not the only criteria in the determination of the turning ability of a vehicle or a combination of vehicles. |
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