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RAC Foundation to Lead NTDA Tyre Ageing Campaign

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The RAC Foundation, one of the best-known and most influential motoring organisations in the UK, has agreed to lend its support to a tyre safety campaign initiated by the NTDA to highlight the potential dangers of over-age tyres. The thrust of the campaign will focus on the need for drivers of older, low mileage vehicles to have their tyres checked for signs of age-related deterioration. Various cases reported in news sources in the UK and overseas, testify that tyre failures have resulted in fatal and serious injury accidents in the UK and overseas.

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Alarming Results From NTDA Company Car Driver Survey

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The NTDA has called on small business car users to take a more responsible attitude to tyre maintenance after results of a survey issued this week showed that over 70 per cent of vehicles in this sector were running on cars with tyre problems.

The survey, carried out over a six month period last year, was produced by Total Motion as part of their regular vehicle monitoring programme and covered nearly 6,000 company and privately owned vehicles used for business.

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NTDA to Sponsor Brityrex 2009

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The NTDA has signed a sponsorship agreement with Brityrex 2009 organisers ECI International for the next exhibition, scheduled to be held at Manchester’s G-Mex centre between September 22 and 24. As part of the agreement, the association’s annual dinner and TAFF Awards presentation will be held alongside the show, as was done successfully this year. The dinner and awards ceremony will take place on September 23.

“We feel the exhibition is vitally important to our members, and the industry as a whole, and we are delighted to be providing our active support to the event,” commented the NTDA’s national chair Peter Gaster. “The 2006 exhibition was a great success for my company, KRT. We have already booked our space for 2009 and I look forward to providing my backing in the run-up to 2009.”

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NTDA Supports Tyre Safety Month

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NTDA chairman Peter Gaster has called on members to support the TyreSafe tyre safety month. According to an article on the association’s website Gaster said: “This initiative is a fantastic opportunity for all retailers to promote the tyre safety message and encourage motorists into their depots for free tyre checks. NTDA is right behind this exciting initiative and we hope that all our members will use the excellent array of posters and leaflets which are available to promote the campaign.”

Independent tyre retailers, garages and franchise dealers are being encouraged by TyreSafe to offer their customers free tyre safety and pressure checks. According to TyreSafe, almost 25 per cent of cars and vans on the roads in the UK have at least one badly worn or illegal tyre and tyre safety checks are an excellent way for retailers to encourage motorists to visit their premises.

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NTDA: Increased Costs Cause Chinese Tyre Price Increases

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Significantly higher transportation costs for tyres from China will increase the cost of brands from this market by up to 5 per cent over the coming months, according to the NTDA. Commenting on recent increases in container rates from the Far East NTDA Director Richard Edy said: “Container rates have increased by up to $300 in recent weeks and the Chinese Governments decision to reduce export subsidies by 8 per cent in July will put added pressure on transportation costs which could have a marked effect on the price of Brands from China.

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NTDA Joins Right to Repair Strategy Group

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Following on from the Right to Repair Seminar organised by the NTDA at Brityrex in Manchester earlier this month, the NTDA have been invited to join the powerful R2RC Strategy Group which will run the UK end of the Europe wide campaign. The Strategy Group is made up of representatives from the SMMT Aftermarket Section, the Automotive Distributive Federation and the Independent Garage section of the Retail Motor Industry Federation and other members of the Automotive Aftermarket Liaison Group

The main task of the group will be to manage the UK end of the campaign which will include lobbying of MPs in Westminster and MEP’ in Brussels.

Representing the NTDA will be the newly elected Vice Chairman of the NTDA David White of Kwik-fit who commented: “This issue is one of the most challenging for our sector and I look forward to representing the Tyre and Fast fit interests within this group which has a lot of work to do over the next few years”.

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NTDA Names 2007 TAFF Award Winners

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On Wednesday 2, alongside the Brityrex International exhibition, the NTDA named the 2007 TAFF award winners. Michelin took best single company result of the night, winning two awards. But Bridgestone, Vellco, Apaseal and Group Tyre were also celebrating success in categories including production innovation, wholesaler of the year and tyre and aftermarket equipment supplier of the year.

The awards were presented during a glittering ceremony at Manchester’s Palace Hotel, which featured well-known stand-up comic Stan Boardman. The Tyre and Fast Fit (TAFF) Awards, which are sponsored by Renault UK, are the NTDA’s own awards which were established in 2005 to reward excellence from industry suppliers and, in that short time, they have firmly established themselves as the premier awards for the UK Tyre Industry.

The 2007 TAFF awards included categories for Tyre Manufacturer, National Wholesaler, Tyre and Aftermarket Equipment Supplier, Product Innovation and a special award for Industry Advertising Campaigns. A special category covering scrap tyre disposal, collecting and recycling is entitled the Environmental Award.

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188

Incumbent NTDA Chairman to Outline Future Plans

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Peter Gaster, managing director of King’s Road Tyres Group, and new NTDA chairman-elect, has told Tyres & Accessories that he will give details of his plans for the role during his speech at the NTDA Tyre and Fast Fit Awards (TAFF) tonight. Explaining that the speech will be short and to the point, Gaster.

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NTDA Dinner at Brityrex – Bigger than Ever

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Attendance at the NTDA/TAFF Awards dinner is reaching record levels with over 400 members and guests already booked to attend. Commented NTDA National Chairman John Tarbox: “The dinner is the key business event for the UK Tyre Industry and running it alongside the exhibition has certainly contributed to this year’s record support.” During the Exhibition the NTDA stand at Brityrex will be focusing on one of the key health and safety issues in the trade, manual handling.

In partnership with Penny Hydraulics and Renault UK the stand will showcase the dangers associated with the handling of modern truck tyres both for roadside repairs and on mobile units.

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NTDA Supports Drive Smarter Campaign

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The NTDA has pledged its support to the government’s most recent effort to reduce CO2 emissions. The Drive Smarter campaign will encourage motorists to check their tyre pressures, amongst other things.

Commenting on the Drive Smarter Campaign NTDA Chairman John Tarbox said today: “We are fully supportive of any initiative to reduce CO2 emissions and especially drawing motorists attention to their tyres – all our research shows that motorists do not check their tyres as often as they should.

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NTDA Backs ‘Right to Repair’ Campaign with Brityrex Seminar

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According to a press release distributed by Brityrex and the NTDA, the retail tyre industry is putting its weight behind an aftermarket campaign to highlight restrictive and anti-competitive practices by vehicle manufacturers, which, according to the NTDA, the tyre industry believes is preventing members from servicing and repairing some newer car models.

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Last NTDA President Dies in Thailand

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Tony Cooke, President of the NTDA from 1997 to 1999, died of a heart attack in Thailand last week, the association has reported. Cooke, who was the association’s last president following a complete reorganisation of the officer structure, was also a keen supporter of the NTDA South East Region. He was chairman of the South East Region in the early nineties before taking over the principal role within the NTDA. Together with his brother Derek, Tony Cooke was a co-director of Carterton Tyres in Oxfordshire before moving to Thailand.

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NTDA: Reducing MOT Frequency Naive

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A report by the HM Treasury, recommending major changes in the frequency of MOTs, has been labelled a “naive view of the contribution MOT’s make to safety on our roads” by the NTDA. “We have been aware for some time that the Treasury have been reviewing the current MOT regime in the UK,” commented NTDA director Richard Edy, adding: “These initial findings, that motorists would save £465million if the tests were done after the first four years and then every two years, takes no account of the importance of regular vehicle testing plays in reducing accidents on our roads.”

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New NTDA Web Site

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The NTDA has launched a new updated website at www.ntda.co.uk. The professionally designed site features links to useful information including the NTDA conference report and the association’s Tyrelink scheme. It also features details of recent announcements from the NTDA, not to mention diary dates and useful links. The re-launch follows an unfortunate bout of web vandalism that saw the NTDA site temporarily hijacked by hackers at the end of September. NTDA representatives told Tyres & Accessories that the association has completely solved this problem with the new site. According to official statistics, the NTDA sites receives up 2 million hits a year from 2000 unique users each month – T&A is certainly a regular visitor.

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NTDA Website Attacked

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While the popularity of the Internet may be increasing, it is not always the successful sales and marketing opportunity that it has the potential to be. National Tyre Distributor’s Association (NTDA) employees found this out at the end of September when they discovered that a self-styled virtual anarchist calling themselves “PSYCH@” had maliciously hacked the association’s website. Instead of news from the NTDA, this professionally designed site was replaced with a few words of incoherent text including an expletive and a comment on Israel.

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