Motor Transport Features 2009

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DATE	FEATURES
Jan 8	MT Awards 2009 launch New year forecast
Jan 15	Parking fines: how to trim your parking bill
Jan 22	Fleet management: freight exchanges
Jan 29	Operators are increasingly reliant on technology to manage their operations, but what systems are available and what should operators be looking for. Are there any pitfalls they should look out?
Feb 5	Port congestion: is it hampering the industry?
Feb 12	Business acquisition best practice
Feb 19	Fleet management: managing your tyre costs
Feb 26	Sector report: fashion logistics
Mar 5	We look at the state of the market and what equipment operators need to compete.
Mar 12	Security: how to make your yard and equipment theft-proof
Mar 19	Cost Tables* Fleet management: vehicle acquisition (contract hire etc)
Mar 26	Cost Tables* Sector report: food service IT supplement
Apr 2	Cost Tables* Business recovery: how to bounce back
Apr 9	Sector report: removals
Apr 23	Multimodal 2009 preview
Apr 30	Sector report: pallet networks
May 7	MT Awards shortlist launch
May 14	Training for managers
May 21	Everywoman Awards Fleet management: aftermarket parts – are they good value or a duff investment?
May 28	Sector report: builders’ merchants
Jun 4	Customer care: how to manage your clients (ands how IT can help)
Jun 11	Managing agency drivers
Jun 18	Fleet management: bodybuilding
Jun 25	Sector report: grocery distribution – field to fork
Jul 2	Insurance: how to get the best deal
Jul 9	MT Awards: the winners
Jul 16	SAFETY special, including the BRAKE Awards Fleet management: getting the trucks you need (leasing, etc)
Jul 30	Sector report: event logistics
Aug 6	Fleet management: vehicle disposal – how to get rid of your fleet
Aug 20	Sector report: beer distribution
Sept 3	Environment: how to be green and save money
Sept 10	Six Sigma/Kaizen/Lean Logistics – what can these management processes add to your business?
Sept 17	Fleet management: fuel purchasing and monitoring
Sept 24	Sector report: automotive supply chain
Oct 1	High value loads: how to cope with risk
Oct 8	Braking: speccing your brakes and keeping them as top stoppers
Oct 15	Safety equipment: how to make your fleet safer (including reversing cameras, mirrors etc).
Oct 29	Sector report: fuel distribution
Nov 5	RAI Show review
Nov 12	Reefers: how do reefer operators go about getting a bespoke truck/trailer package?
Nov 19	Fleet management: managing your maintenance
Nov 26	Sector report: air freight
Dec 3	Top 100 supplement
Dec 10	Fleet management: bodybuilding - how to choose the correct spec for trailers (body, axles, landing legs etc)

*: MT�s Cost Tables will run as soon after the Budget as is practicable. Publication date will be confirmed once the date of the Budget is announced.

Note 1. Motor Transport is a weekly newspaper, and the schedule above is only part of our features coverage. Throughout the year, we will be publishing a range of topical features, covering the latest issues affecting the road transport industry. Information about these features, as we plan them, will be published here. MT features operate about eight weeks in advance of publication. Editorial queries about most MT features should be addressed to dominic.perry@rbi.co.uk
Note 2. While every effort is made to maintain this features schedule, we retain the right to alter the publishing dates, deadlines and subject matter if necessary, and we cannot be held responsible for any outcome of advertisements appearing in issues where the feature and supplement dates or subject matter have been altered. If your advertisement is booked specifically against one of the issues featured above, you are advised to contact the advertisement sales team one week prior to deadline for confirmation of publishing.

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