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Vehicle Tracking & Recovery

Hijacking and vehicle theft remains a high priority problem in the trucking industry. The good news is that efforts to use technology as a means of minimising the problem and recovering vehicles is going a long way towards helping ease the burden for transport operators. But there is still so much more that can be done.

Save Lives! Police Yourself!

A great poster brought to you by Castrol and FleetWatch in the interests of Road Safety. Click here to download the poster.

The Big Thunder Rolls In

It was everything everyone expected - plus a whole lot more. Record crowds streamed to both Kyalami and Killarney race circuits to witness for the first time ever in South Africa the battle of the giants as the European truck racing circus hit our shores. Not only did these spectacular events serve to boost the image of trucking in this country, but they also served to boost motor racing in South Africa.

Waste on Wheels Turns Trash to Treasure

The subject of waste burns some people up. It keeps increasing, it can be lethal and its largely the poor who have to live with the trash that the rich dump on them. Waste is carried on many, many wheels and because of this, truckers have a measure of social responsibility for what happens to it. Thus those who operate fleets should take a fresh look at their role in the system.

Defining an "Articulated Vehicle"

Recently there have been problems caused by some traffic departments interpreting the definition of an articulated vehicle as being a truck-tractor and more than one semi-trailor, based on the premise that the singular can mean the plural and vice-versa.

The Way Things Were, Are and May Be

In October 1996, Dave Scott, technical correspondent for FleetWatch, stood in the Selby truck workshops of Cargo Motors as a greenhorn facing the opportunity of being a truck sales trainee. He has come a long way in the industry since then. On being asked to write some thoughts of his experiences and observations as we head into the new millenium, he comes to the conclusion that there is still so much to learn and that training always has - and always will - remain vital to the road transport industry. He also ventures some forecasts on how he sees the way ahead.

Transportation of Dangerous Goods

At a recent meeting of the Johannesburg centre of the IRTE, Keith McMurray gave a talk on the Transportation of Dangerous Goods, a subject on which he is most qualified to speak having been involved "at the coal face" since the early 1970's.