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Worried about steering your transport business through the present difficult financial waters? Then CM's one-day seminar on budgetary control in road transport may be just the thing to give guidance andconfidence; it contains a lot of commonsense advice about checking profit leaks and planning realistic business targets.
The seminar is on June 22 in London, it has RTITB approval, and the speaker is Bob Grimsley, a management finance and taxation lecturer at the University of Aston, Birmingham, with personal experience of industrial transport.
A second CM one-day seminar is on a subject which gains in importance every week, as our news pages carry more and more reports of operators' licences being curtailed or revoked. Entitled "Retaining the operator's licence" the seminar is on July 13 in London and the speakers — lain Sherriff of CM and Terry Croldrick, transport facilities manager of Allied Breweries, will set out in detail the operational and maintenance controls necessary to safeguard the 0 licence and thus ensure renewal.
Both these seminars are administered for CM by IPC Business and Indus trial Trot* ni ng. Details and reservation forms can beobtained from them at 161 Fleet Street, London EC4 (tel: 01-353 5011, ask for conference administrator).