CLOCS' time has come. Construction Logistics and Cyclist Safety is no longer simply about TfL (Transport for London) working with big-name contractors to transform truck safety for vulnerable road users in and around the capital. Whether it's due to collaboration or coercion, the all-important CLOCS standard is spreading fast and being taken seriously way beyond London and way beyond construction. And, although CLOCS is not just about the vehicles, all the truck manufacturers are falling over themselves to get in line. That was evident at the fifth CLOCS Progress seminar (staged late in March at ExCel, London), which hosted no fewer than 28 vehicles re-engineered for urban safety - up nearly 60% on last year's showing. What's more, while a few were prototypes (and some more radical than others), most were heading for operator trials or already liveried up and in full-duty service. Indeed, I'm told that many of the exhibited trucks -skiploaders, tippers, concrete mixers, builders' merchants vehicles, tipper-grabs, gulley emptiers, etc - are now available to order via the OEMs' dealerships and/or bodybuilders.
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