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Entire range of cutting-edge vehicle safety products available at the APSE Exhibition

Vision Techniques’ cutting-edge vehicle safety systems will be showcased at the Association for Public Service Excellence (APSE) exhibition in Aviemore on 8-11 May.

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Reverse Alarm Inhibitors to play important role in road safety during the Olympics

Vehicle safety specialist, Vision Techniques has introduced an inventive and fail-safe system, which could prove invaluable to road safety during the 2012 London Olympic Games this July.

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OWL Road Show phenomenal success

The first ever showcase of the most innovative waste solution on the market has been praised as ‘a huge success’ by industry experts.

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VT Side Alert™ warning system takes market by storm

An innovative new warning system, which stops vehicles from hitting cyclists and pedestrians, is becoming widely popular throughout the UK.

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Malcolm Bates travels to Blackburn, Lancashire, to get a glimpse of the future. What systems will the next generation of RCVs need? Michael Hanson and his team at Vision Techniques should know, they have "tomorrow" nailed already and are busy working on the next decade...

What's the biggest problem with running a fleet of municipal vehicles? How long have we got? It used to be the combination of matching the right spec with what local politicians would expect and pat for. The whole tender process was geared around trying to balance operational requirements with a system that encouraged "stability", while limiting the scope for corruption.

Like al legal, or quasi-legal mechanisms, it worked slowly and was still open to "interpretation". Privatisation changed everything. But leaving aside all the political upheaval and harm that has been done over the last 30 years, all the politically divisive legislation has had some positive benefits. Personally, I;m convinced they have happened more by accident than design, however...

Firstly, in an effort to enable more commercial companies to take over public sector contracts, some bright political spark (that phrase doesn't crop up very often!) realised that there had to be an active equipment hire/rental market in place first and that needed cheaper finance.

This was essential because commercial newcomers just didn't have "spare" vehicles available. Not a political problem when your best mates were bankers...

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