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Driving greener has the much welcomed benefit of saving you money. If you have to drive, following our tips and tricks will allow you to maximize the usage of your vehicle and your fuel.

On your marks…. preparation

* Avoid overfilling the tank when refuelling. Spilled fuel evaporates and releases harmful emissions into the atmosphere and just plain wastes money.

With inspiration from @nikkipilkington, we tried this a few weeks ago and guess what we are doing it again this week!

So some more of our #FollowFriday recommendations are:-

@babssaul blogmistress and uber girl geek, Babs is a good friend and  good to follow and chat with, especially if you are in Kent
@elocio plays interesting and often apt music choices, if you like to hear music in your tweets, he’s a good follow

@directassist VA to the stars, puts your blogs in places you could never imagine, or so I am told

@BTTradespace, if you don’t have a Tradespace sending your blogs to twitter then you are missing out, Amy and the Team behind Tradespace help promote many of their members and their members projects – so you will find something special amongst these tweets.

@caraccidentadvice and @fleetrisk two essential follows for those in the transport industry.

So, who are you recommending to follow on twitter this Friday? Who are the other transport essentials on twitter?

Regards

Kevin aka @Freight_rescue

I am compiling a list of couriers, worldwide that are on twitter. Some are active users, some are not.

If I have missed you, please add yourself in a comment with a link to your twitter home page.

@Essex_courier

@freight_rescue

@cityexp

@VelocityDublin

@clutchcouriers

@Capital_Courier

@dialavan

@motocourier

@WatfordCourier

@bostoncourier

@HotShotDelivery

@ZIPCOURIER

@Brianthecourier

@DiscyDave

@adicourier

@Jus10brown

@ officeboys

@ MadisonCourier

Freight exchanges include:

@courierexchange

Dorsey, born in St Louis, Missouri, was interested in designing dispatch routing software by the time he was 14. Not a typical teenage obsession, perhaps, but taxicab companies are still using his software. He dropped out of New York University and left his job as a programmer at a taxi- and courier-dispatch service in 1999 to move to San Francisco. By 2000, he had started a company to dispatch couriers, taxis and emergency services via the internet. Anxious to find a new way of staying in touch with friends without having to stay tied to a computer, he approached an internet software company called Odeo, where Biz Stone worked. He wanted to create a communication service that allowed people to tell each other what they were doing. Stone, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who has published two books about the growth of “social media”, and Dorsey produced a Twitter prototype in a few weeks.

via Profile Twitter founders: Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Evan Williams – Telegraph.

So knowing the one of the original applications for Twitter, why don’t more couriers use it?

Are couriers and  transport companies slow to engage modern technology?

Sarah

Twitter for Couriers and Transport companies

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Car Accident Advice: Traps to avoid when hiring vehicles:

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