Jan
31
Ice Truckers - the most dangerous driving in the world?
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Ice Trucking Video
Nigel Grainger sent me an email asking if I had saw the ‘Ice Truckers’ on TV last night. I missed it, but decided to Google them instead.
These men do the most skilled driving in the world. A temporary road is built across a frozen lake and they drive across it, jack knifing, [...]
Jan
30
Famous female truckers….
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It seems the UK is home to three very famous female truckers!
The Queen, Princess Ann and her daughter Zara Phillips.
The Queen drove and repaired trucks in WWII according to the BBC Princess Ann can also drive trucks but she did lose the right temporarily just after 9/11.
Zara Phillips has a [...]
Jan
29
Guestblog: Bikers, TfL has NO interest in your safety!
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Much less polluting than cars, much smaller footprints, much easier in city traffic flows and gridlock, TfL won’t release THIS survey because it found that although there were statistical benefits of allowing ‘Powered Two-Wheelers’ (P2W) to use bus lanes because it’s where people ‘expected them to be’ and that there was a measurable reduction in [...]
Jan
28
The Highway Code, is an interesting source of information, but how many people look things up in it on a regular basis?
For driving when foggy it states that driving when visibility is seriously reduced – when you cannot see for more than 100 metres (or the length of a football pitch) means you must [...]
Jan
27
Hydrogen BMW
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Would watching someone put a glass underneath the cars exhaust pipe, watch the glass fill with water and then get consumed by someone persuade you to buy a Hydrogen powered BMW?
I am 3/4’s convinced this is the future already just by the fact the by product is drinkable.
The full article is here :- Hydrogen powers [...]
Jan
25
Having ‘the hump’ is killing the planet….
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…according to The Times today.
They damage cars and give drivers a nasty jolt, but now speed bumps have been found guilty of an even worse crime — they are helping to destroy the planet.
The traffic-calming measures double the carbon dioxide emissions and fuel consumption by forcing drivers to brake and accelerate repeatedly, according to a [...]
Jan
25
Aside from our own that is. We have found one from KDC couriers, theirs has been going for nearly 18 months!
A few more that I have found are based in the US, and are very factual and informative!
So blogging couriers are just rare….for now.
Kevin Arrow
Jan
25
LEZ does anyone want to talk about it?
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LEZ is coming in and its the area inside of the M25.
So how will this affect our businesses? Well those who run newer vehicles will be happy, they don’t have a lot- if anything to do. But what about those who meticulously maintain their older vehicle, have had it since new and treated it like [...]
Jan
24
I have just received an email outlining that last year there were £200 million in losses due to freight related crime.
I shall take a guess and say some of that is stuff ‘falling off the back of a lorry’. This is not good for the companies that make the goods, suffer a loss and then [...]
Jan
24
The cost of Congestion!
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According to the CBI (Confederation of British Industry) congestion costs the UK economy 20 billion per year in resources and lost time. This equates to £74,000 per hour!
So, How do we combat congestion? Here are a few of our suggestions
1.Use less obvious routes to get around, this can save hours (read our previous blogs [...]