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Bosses for Bosnia osses trade union, the Engineers' and Managers Association, is sending 250 tonnes of aid to Bosnia funded by its members and their employers.
The electricity companies have plugged in to the mercy mission by providing 17 vehicles, drivers and fuel plus £7,000 cash for the trip in a package of aid worth £70,000. A further £38,000 has been collected by EMA members. Participating electricity companies include London, Midlands, Norweb, Powergen, Yorkshire and South Western.
TBA Textiles has offered flak jackets to protect the drivers.
The idea came from Tony Cooper, EMA's general secretary who appealed for donations through the union's magazine. He is taking the convoy to Split and says he was amazed at the response from members and their employers.
Looking for a winning combination cottish trucker William Mitchell is not displaying the latest in hazard warning signs but helping to publicise anew wheeze to get truckers to buy their diesel at Pavilion truckstops.
The company is offering drivers who buy more than 50 litres of diesel a free entry on Vernons pools at its 11 service areas on motorways and A-roads. The battle for the truckers' pound also includes free showers and 50p meal vouchers. Can't be bad — especially with the pools companies pledged to offer more frequent jackpots in a bid to fend off the Government lottery being introduced next year.
The Hawk looks forward to hearing from the first trucker to win a million as a result of Pavilion's scheme: "It won't change my life, honest," will not be believed. Surely anew cab heater, at least?
Tuffing it out with Tuffnells uffnells' driver Richard Stacey will be familiar to readers though not through the pages of CM — instead, they will have seen him in an advertisement from the Employment Service in national newspapers.
The ad tells the story of how Richard overcame deafness to achieve his li fe's ambition to become an HGV driver and urges employers to concentrate on the abilities rather than the disabilities of people like Richard Three years ago Richard was refused an HGV licence but challenged the decision in court and won. Tuffnells Parcels Express heard of the case and stepped in to pay for Richard's driving lessons.
The Sheffield firm says Richard is one of its best employees and communicates with customers by 11P-reading, signing and talking A pair of minicom telephones supplied by the Employment Service allows him to call in from telephones on his route Richard's success story has had the important effect of persuading the DVLA to view similar applications for HGV licences more liberally; drivers with a hearing disability will be awarded a licence if they can communicate, a task made easier by advancing technology Green gets no brownie points from Greens 5 he Hawk is usually a generation behind the latest jargon, but having got used to "greenfield sites" lam puzzled by the emergence of "brownfield sites" which apparently are greener than greenfield sites.
It seems that brownfield sites are more environmentally friendly because they convert existing premises such as old warehouses to modern needs, whereas greenfield sites despoil fresh countryside.
In other words, don't eat up your greens.
What's in it for truckers?
Eziow that Bill and Hillary and Al and Tipper have taken over the White House, American truckers who voted for the Clinton ticket may well be asking "what's in it for me?"
Well, President Clinton is committed to priming the transport pump by spending $20bn (£13.7bn) a year for four years on highway building, according to the US magazine, Transport Topics. Clinton will also provide full funding fora new enabling bill, the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act.
In the short term it is likely that Clinton will concentrate on refurbishing crumbling transport infrastructure, rather than initiate expensive new projects, such as airports.
Truckers and the construction industry eagerly await the release of funds, as there are 7,000 public works programmes in more than 500 cities currently stalled for lack of funds. Some of the money to pay for new projects comes from the peace dividend and forcing the wealthy to pay more tax. In short, Clinton is investing for growth. If it works the electorate on this side of the Atlantic may reflect on its 1992 decision to reject such policies.
by the Hawk