MINUTES OF 43nd MEETING
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Boral Complex, Greystaines Road, Greystaines
on Monday 17 July 2000
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| Members gathered at 6 pm and Russell Mills opened the formal
meeting at 6:20 pm |
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| Attendance: |
Alan Brown, Andrew Brown, Trevor Care, Mark George, Neil Gillies,
Egon Meinhardt, Russell Mills, Brian Reay, Roger Stuart-Smith, Graham Weeks,
Chris Wells, Colin Wingrove, Stephen Dunn, Warren Nicol.
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| Apologies: |
Allan Bird, Charmaine Booth, Grant Johnson, Mary Lewis.
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Confirmation of Minutes:
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The minutes of meeting held on 8 May 2000 were confirmed.
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| General Business: |
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The conference CD is still under preparation - awaiting some data from
other parties.
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Allan Sutton from South Pacific Tyres as yet to send out notes from the
tyre course.
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Andrew Brown has established a new email list (on egroups) that is open
to members and guests. The list operates on the same system as INCR
and RTA_Investigators (UK) and is restricted to discussion of issues unique
to Australasia. All meeting notices will be sent via the egroups
list in future. The egroups list also provides a diary (to remind
you of meetings), web links, file area and other neat features.
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Mark George proposed that NSW have an annual dinner (separate to our annual
NSW conference weekend) with a suitable dinner speaker. There was
general agreement with this proposal and Mark is to investigate venues
and costs.
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Stephen Dunn provided the meeting with an update of procedures to access
NSW Police photos, plans etc. He also provided contact details for
information from RTA and local councils.
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The meeting was reminded that there would be an election for the positions
of State Director and Secretary at the next meeting.
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| Next Meeting: |
The next meeting Monday 23 October 2000 at a location
to be arranged.
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| Guest Speaker: |
Graham Weeks and Chris Wells of Boral gave a presentation on
Heavy Vehicle Operations by Boral and lead a discussion on driver training,
vehicle maintenance and accident investigation.
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| The meeting closed at 8:15 pm. |