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In the zone

PERHAPS IT IS BECAUSE of the extraordinarily high volumes and fine margins that road transport operators are so adept at working around the margins, finding better ways of doing things to increase productivity and thereby improving profitability and return on investment.

Many of the industry’s widely-adopted innovations have come through years of experimentation. Increasingly, however, it is down to science, with new technologies that are able to calculate and

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