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For the latest full stories subscribe or log in to the current edition. For the latest job vacancies, click on JOBS. JULY 2. 01. 7A new business development director starts work this month at the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM), the UK’s biggest road safety charity. He is Tony Greenidge, formerly sales and marketing director at Fleet Operations, a long- established, independent, fleet management and consultancy firm based in Newcastle- under- Lyme, Staffordshire. Mr Greenidge joined Fleet Operations as a commercial manager/account director in September 2.

Before that his extensive experience in motor industry and financial services sales included spells at Inchcape Fleet Solutions, Hitachi Capital and the Arval vehicle- leasing division of the BNP Paribas banking group. Mr Greenidge also set up and ran his own sales training and consultancy business between 2. At the Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire- based IAM (with training divisions such as IAM Drive & Survive trading under the IAM Road. Smart name since April 2. Sarah Sillars. Though his job title is different, at IAM Mr Greenidge in effect is replacing commercial director Lesley Upham. She leaves the charity this month after two years in the post. Ms Upham joined IAM in July 2.

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Thatcham Research. More information at www. JUNE 2. 01. 7In Scania’s big south- west region UK operation, stretching from Bicester in Buckinghamshire to Land’s End in Cornwall, Nigel Jones has been promoted from regional sales director to regional executive director. He fills the vacancy created by the surprise departure four months ago of Dave Cussans. He joined Scania as south- west region executive director in January 2. MAN Truck & Bus UK.

Mr Cussans was director of operations based at the company’s UK head office in Swindon, Wiltshire until resigning in mid 2. His reasons now for leaving Scania after seven successful years in charge of the fast- growing south- west region are unclear. Mr Jones has been the region’s sales director since January 2. Before that he worked for Keltruck, a big Scania dealer group based in the midlands, initially as sales administration manager and then for more than eight years as account manager. Previously he studied automotive engineering at Evesham College before working for Leaseway, a now defunct Leeds- based rental and contract hire company, as contract services manager.

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At Scania’s south- west region Mr Jones now heads an operation with 3. Bob Gowans, one of the UK’s most highly regarded heavy commercial vehicle product engineers, is back at Mercedes- Benz UK after two years working for a leading heavy- haulage trailer- maker.

Mr Gowans, 3. 5, had been Mercedes- Benz UK heavy truck product manager for four years when he moved to Hampshire- based Andover Trailers as commercial manager in April 2. Last month he returned to the Milton Keynes base of the Mercedes truck sales and marketing operation in the UK following a radical management restructure under managing director Mike Belk. Mr Belk became boss of the Mercedes- Benz Trucks business unit in the UK in May 2. Following the retirement of sales engineering director Nick Blake and the departure two months ago of truck marketing manager Lisa Caveny, Ross Paterson has become head of product and marketing. As product and sales technical manager, Mr Gowans now reports to him. There are four product managers and a homologation engineer now reporting to Mr Gowans.

He describes the opportunity to fill this new role as “a great one that was too good to turn down.”Before joining Mercedes initially at the end of 2. Mr Gowans had worked for Paccar’s Leyland Trucks as a lead engineer in its sales engineering and homologation department. He is a chartered engineer (CEng) and a member of The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMech. E) who joined Leyland Trucks early in 2. Another Mercedes- Benz truck marketing vacancy in the UK was filled last month by Jamie Fretwell, media relations and communication manager at the British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association (BVRLA) for the past three years. He now heads the UK Mercedes truck division’s public relations and internal communications operation, taking over from Simon Wood.

He has moved into van sales at Rygor, a big Mercedes commercial vehicle dealer group based in Wiltshire. Senior management changes at both the UK’s two biggest road transport trade associations come into effect next month. At the 1. 6,0. 00- member Freight Transport Association (FTA), based in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, Elizabeth de Jong starts her new job as policy director on 3 July. She fills the vacancy created by the departure in February of Karen Dee.

Meanwhile over at the 6,0. Road Haulage Association (RHA), based in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, marketing and communications director Rod Mc. Kenzie is preparing to take on additional responsibilities from next month as director of policy and public affairs. Promoted to policy director and now reporting to Mr Mc. Kenzie is Duncan Buchanan, whose main responsibilities will be the “day- to- day detail of RHA policy”.

These RHA management job changes result from next month’s early retirement, at the age of 6. Jack Semple. He has been RHA policy director for the past 1. Mr Semple’s predecessor for six years in that post was Karen Dee.

She then moved to the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) where she was head of infrastructure before joining FTA as policy director in 2. Four months ago she moved to the Airport Operators Association as chief executive. Ms de Jong joins FTA from Rail Delivery Group (RDG), an organisation set up in 2. Network Rail, the government and train operating companies. She has been RDG director of policy since April 2. Before that she worked at the government’s Department for Transport (Df.

T), latterly heading the team responsible for the contract specification of the East Coast railway franchise. This is the train operation which the Df.

T was forced to take into public ownership after it was abandoned by National Express. The operation is now run by the Virgin group. Ms de Jong first joined the Df. T in 2. 00. 9 as franchise manager for rail commercial contracts. She has an MSc (Master of Science) degree in transport studies from Cranfield University. She is “an expert in delivering success in highly complex, high- profile industries,” according to FTA chief executive David Wells.

More information at www. At the RHA, Jack Semple’s impending retirement means promotion for Duncan Buchanan. He joined the association in August 2. For ten years before that Mr Buchanan had worked at the Df. T, latterly on road haulage licensing and regulation. Now he has been promoted to RHA policy director.

Colin Snape continues as deputy policy director. Before joining RHA in 2. Mr Semple had spent 2. London from his native Glasgow. Titles on which he established a reputation as a respected editor and industrious researcher and writer include Motor Transport, Commercial Motor and Truck. He also spent three years in public relations and marketing, between 1. WS Atkins, a big engineering group.

Now Mr Semple says that he is looking forward to a “sabbatical for a year or so, before maybe looking at other opportunities. More information at www. MAY 2. 01. 7Richard Turfitt is to be Britain's new senior traffic commissioner, taking over from Beverley Bell at the beginning of next month.

The appointment follows Mrs Bell’s decision not to apply for a second five- year term as senior commissioner. She is also retiring as traffic commissioner for the north- west area. Mrs Bell became Britain’s first female traffic commissioner when she was appointed in 2. Then aged 4. 0, she was also the youngest. She became senior traffic commissioner five years ago. Mr Turfitt has been traffic commissioner for eastern England since 2.