Hanco Introduces Roadside Recovery from January 2011

Motorist in Saudi Arabia will now be able to peacefully move around as a reliable breakdown service 24 hrs a day and 7 days a week is being introduced by Hanco (Al-Tala'a International Transportation Co. Ltd) from January 2011. Hanco which was formed in 1976 is introducing this emergency breakdown service along with its partnership with MID (Middle East Auto Services).

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The emergency service will deal with all the common and major issues motorist face. Some of the most common ones being flat tires, low powered batteries and some who face trouble with fuel. The emergency service will also include towing services along with a recovery service. A driver facility will also be provided if required. Hanco will launch a powerful call centre to support their emergency service.
Hanco already has a Customer Care which a single number 92 000 18 44 which meets all customer requirements for reservation and enquiry purposes. For their Customer Care they are partnered Acxiom MENA which is worldwide head in its field of marketing services.

The CEO for Hanco, Mr. Bob Farrow believes this new service of emergency breakdown will help Hanco reach their ambition to be the finest and the largest automobile leasing and hire group in Saudi Arabia. He also added that Hanco purely believes in giving the best Customer Care Services and with their recently launches Customer Care Centre and emergency breakdown service they are just getting better with their motto.

Hanco which has its head office in Jeddah recently bought a fleet of cars worth $35 million and the fleet includes all the major brands like Hyundai, Toyota, Honda and Chevrolet. With the new lot Hanco now has more than 10,000 cars in their fleet which the motorist can choose to rent from any of their 34 rental outlets which is spread across a network of five local offices.


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Previous Post: Indian Air Force File Recovered From Road Side

Indian Air Force File Recovered From Road Side

A confidential file went missing from the highly secured Indian defence headquarters and later found at Delhi roadside by a security guard. The defence ministry has ordered an immediate enquiry on this serious matter and suspects senior level officials to be involved in the matter. The enquiry will have to be carefully done as it will involve some of the senior most officials of the Defence Headquarters. There will be two people under serious investigation due to which the file went missing. One bureaucrat involves a high secretary rank officer and the other director; they were the ones who were responsible to carry the highly sensitive file to a guest house (Bharat Electronics Limited) in Khelgoan Marg.

The file contained all information regarding the massive $11 billion project to buy more than 125 brand new medium range multi-role combat aircraft (MMRCA). There are six major aerospace involved in the tender of the project and this file contained detailed evaluation of the six companies based on the technical data submitted by the companies. The decision was to buy 126 MMRCA and the file would be worth a lot to many of the manufacturers involved in the project. The file in fact was located by a security guard who immediately informed about the file to his senior who happens to be an ex-service official. The official realised the importance of the file which contained highly sensitive information and immediately transported the file back to the defence headquarters.

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The decision initially was to order the planes by 2011 mid based on the research and the tender filled by the 6 companies but this unexpected injury may delay the plans even further. A K Anthony, the Defence Minister realises there has been a big loss and promises serious investigation and justice soon. The field trials for the aircrafts have already been submission by the Indian Air Force (IAF), it is now down only to the commercial aspect of the decision.


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Previous Post:Roadside Service – An Important Part for your Car Insurance

Roadside Service – An Important Part for your Car Insurance

Car insurance is a very important part in case of emergencies or accidents both for the driver and for the other side who is involved in the accident. But a very important part of car insurance involves roadside service which not many people know of.

Roadside service covers all your service charge involved at the time of an accident or emergency breakdown. Charges like towing service, tyre changing, roadside repairs, labour are partly taken care of by your insurance company if you opt for the roadside insurance along with your car insurance. But along with people not knowing about this service in their insurance people are also cheated with fraud roadside services which take undue advantage of the situation and usually turn up without a call by either the vehicle owner or the police.

The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) has thus warned the automobilist to be careful of such fraud recovery companies who arrive at the scene without the motorist or the cops actually calling them at the scene and sign consent of towing immediately from the driver. At that time the motorist is not very much aware of the cost due to the pressure but usually the bills for such recovery systems turn out to be really huge.

There are lots of advantages of Post office car Insurance like you can have easy monthly payment option, easy to apply and easy claim, you also have breakdown cover with this post office car insurance.

But if your insurance covers road service then you will be cooled off with that heavy cost. If not completely then maximum of the amount will be covered by your insurance company depending on your insurance if it is private or your company car insurance. They do not include the cost of the part supplied but cover maximum amount of the labour, the delivery and the installation.

So be careful the next time you buy your car insurance, good agents usually advice you to opt for the roadside cover as well but you make sure you add them to your insurance as it increases your premium only to a limited amount but saves a lot of money during an emergency.


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Previous Post: Benefits on the road

Benefits on the road

Benefits are one word which is synonymously associated with insurance. It’s how much you can get it matters. Especially in case of car insurance or auto insurance as they say. What else you can get from your car insurance besides coverage for damage to your car, medical coverage for you, a lien to third party, security in case it’s stolen. How about a car repair service when you are stranded in middle of night or middle of nowhere. What are the odds that you will be in such a situation? May be once in a life time or may be more if you are one of those who don’t really care about your vehicle. So should one go for such kind of benefit by shelling out few extra dollars? Well then that’s what insurance is all about covering the unseen risks.

This happened with me when my friend coaxed me into such kind of coverage, with an extra premium of $10. When your best friend is an insurance advisor, you do certain things just for the heck of it.

It was few years down the line when Heather (My Wife) & I were driving to Las Vegas for celebrating our first marriage anniversary. I was quite excited about this trip, something which I dreamt right from my teenage years. Driving in the middle of desert with a car full of gas, your lovely wife besides you heading to your dream destination things could not have been better. We decided to continue our journey even in night. It was around 11:10pm, the rear wheel of my convertible went bust. My wheels have gone bust many a times but never broke a sweat about it, as it has happened either in city or downtown. This time slowly I got out of the car, looked at the busted tyre cursed my luck. Looked around it was pitch black no one around, then I saw Heather looking at me with despair . She asked me to replace it with spare wheel. Well I tried to recollect last time when I changed the wheel, forget it I have never changed the wheel. Now Heather started getting cold, started looking for help & for some strange reason there was nothing available not evens a single transport. We checked our map & as luck would have it we were exactly in middle of nowhere & the first motel on the either was at a distance of 63 mph. Heather & me both sat down, it was 12:00 in night. We looked at each other & then we kissed wishing Happy Anniversary. I looked around once again this was not my idea of anniversary. Suddenly I got a call from my friend James (insurance advisor) to wish me. I told him about our situation. Guess what he reminded of my benefit of having the car repaired in my auto insurance. I asked for the hotline number of this service provider, he assured me no worries he will ask someone from insurance centre to call you. Now I was waiting for the call, it took 17 long minutes to call them. Finally I got the call , spoke with the call centre agent gave out my insurance details, location of my car , & what exactly is the problem . I asked her how much time it will take she said by one hour somebody should be there. She asked is there anything else she can do, I asked what else can be done, she answered any food & drinks. I ordered for a double crest pizza & a bottle of red wine.

After I hung up, I looked at Heather; we sat on the bonnet of our car looking up in the sky & started talking just like old times. It was around quarter to 2 in night a huge Van approached our car, they were from the insurance provider. A tall lean fellow Thomas came out with few forms, he handed it over to me asking me to fill it, inspected the wheel. He went inside the van & came out with pizza & wine (there was an extra charge towards it). Heather & I dug into the warm pizza & enjoyed the wine. After the tyre was replaced, Thomas told we can resume our journey & gave his card in case of any other trouble.

Heather & I was delighted to get into the car, we started once again. I thanked God, Thomas, the insurance provider & my best friend James most of all. Who said it’s not wise to have your best friend as your insurance advisor ask me.

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AA plans to expand its Dublin operations

Economy is improving. Job opportunities are automatically increasing due to that and millions of people who lost their job are slowly getting their own job back or are able to take advantage of the new job opportunities in the market. AA similarly wants to employ new people for their Dublin headquarters.

They are currently in hunt for people specializing in I.T and financial fields. They plan to employ a decent number of 40 people in both the departments. This will greatly help the people in Ireland with 40 new openings in a reputed organization like AA.

The new job opportunity rises from the increasing demand of AA insurance and the increase in the demand of AA's recovery services with their highly popular road rescue service. The road rescue service is being used more often than any other time is also because consumers are still using their old cars. These cars obviously due to increased mechanical age are giving trouble on the road and that's when AA comes for the rescue. Apart from improving their current operations AA also plans to expand its already huge insurance operations and is also looking for greater web presence and so the need for I.T and financial specialist. In Ireland alone, AA has over 600,000 customers and now plans to expand further.

The policy Director, AA, Mr. Conor Faughnan says the company is expecting many queries for their road service and wants to give the best service to all AA consumers with more and more manpower possible. As more manpower will automatically mean more work and more service to the consumers. Apart from more service, it would simply mean quick service to the consumers considering the adequate and dedicated staff which AA will employ to take care of their numerous and valuable clients all over the country.

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Insurance Rate Updates

In effect from Jan 15, customers can experience a hike of 9 percent in their personal auto & private passenger auto insurance coverage provided by Affirmative insurance company.

In effect from Jan 15, customers can experience a hike of 4.9 percent in their home owners & owner occupied insurance coverage provided by Auto club family insurance company.

In effect from Jan 15, there has been no change in personal auto & private passenger, commercial auto & other rule coverage provided by EMC property & Casualty Company, Emcasco Insurance , Employers Mutual casualty company.

In effect from Jan 15, there has been no change in boiler & machinery or equipment breakdown coverage provided by New York Marine & General Insurance Company.

In effect from Jan 17, customers will feel a decrease of 2.23 percent in their mortgage guarantee coverage provided by Republic Mortgage insurance company.

In effect from Jan 17, customers will experience a hike of 5.75 percent in their personal auto & private passenger auto coverage provided by National General Assurance Company.

In effect from Jan 17, customers will experience a hike of 8.68 percent in their personal auto & private passenger auto coverage provided by GMAC Insurance Company.

In effect from Jan 17, customers will experience a hike of 0.4 percent in their personal auto & private passenger auto coverage provided by Country Casualty Insurance Company.

In effect from Jan 17, customers will experience a hike of 0.4 percent in their personal auto & private passenger auto coverage provided by Country Casualty Insurance Company.

In effect from Jan 17, customers will feel a decrease a hike of 0.1 percent in their personal auto & private passenger auto coverage provided by Cotton States Mutual Insurance Company.

In effect from Jan 15, customers will experience a hike of 0.6 percent in their home owners & owner occupied coverage provided by South Insurance Company of Virginia.

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What’s up in Budget Menu for California?

A 266 page budget proposal was released by Gov .Jerry Brown on Jan 10 for California. Fingers are crossed with high expectations as things are looking to come up after recession.

Some of the key features of the proposal are

* Strong explanation for reducing or increasing the allowances or realigning the responsibilities
* As of now proposals are only for financial term of 2011-12 & it might change in coming years
* Change in policies has been mentioned in proposal

With revenue of 2010-11 falling short of expectation by $3.1 billion, the projections for year 2011-12 is $25.4 billion.

Some of the state sponsored institutes & programs are facing with massive cut in their allowances. These include Medi-cal, California’ s welfare-to work- program , University of California, Department of development services , state operation & employee compensation. Medi-cal being the biggest casualty by facing a cut of $1.7 billion.

It’s also proposing to borrow some funds from Property Tax Shift & “Special Funds”.

More responsibilities will be aligned to respective counties. They will be accountable for Child Welfare Services, Adult protective services, funds of court security. They will be also provided support in terms of Fund s for alcohol & drug rehabilitation.

One of the areas of concern in the age of global warming is cut of $12.8 million towards Environmental protection. Local governments will be in charge of fire protection & medical help in forest & wildlife areas, by doing so they will be saving the funds required for Fourth Fighter of CAL FIRE.

Education is another area not having much change; K-12 allowances are still the same from previous budget. A cut of S1.7 billion towards total funding of General fund for higher education.

This being just a preview of the budget, you can go through PDF of the proposal uploaded at governor’s website Ebudget.Ca.Gov/

Hope everyone from California is able to digest this Budget Menu.

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Roger Dyson chooses Roadside Vehicles for their new Recovery Vehicle

When it comes to reliability and robust construction, Dyson equipment offers you both. Roger Dyson’s truck, The Hydra loader 8000La has been taken for repair by Roadside Vehicle Services which is a company particularly focusing on car and commercial vehicle repairs. The Hydra loader 8000La is mounted on a massive 26-tonne Mercedes-Benz Axor 2528 chassis and redesigned in Roger Dyson's factory in Droitwich town which is in Worcestershire in the northern part of England.

The platform of this Hydra loader has a huge capacity of 8,000kg that can be radio controlled remotely as well. What’s absolutely remarkable is that this truck's loading angle can be lowered even more thanks to the air suspended chassis that is equipped with a steering rear axle for improved maneuverability. And all of these functionalities can together take the load of even a 7.5-tonne truck. This massive recovery truck will surely prove very beneficial and will be able to take the load of just about anything.

Roger Dyson's partner, David McVey vouches for the top class performance and services of Dysons vehicles. He states that after sales service of Dysons is prompt and the vehicles are excellently built. In the rare case of something going wrong, Dysons is very professional and quick to respond. Dyson always maintains high quality in its products and services.


As Dysons products are built using such high standards, they prove economically viable to use. David, concludes that this is precisely the reason why he is sure of getting a great price for this new vehicle even if it is sold after a couple of years. He also added that though you can even get cheaper vehicles elsewhere this is simply the best in quality and also cost effective in operation which keeps the running and maintenance cost low.


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Another Vehicle stuck at Land End Ford

Yet another warning issued to the drivers going towards Ford at Lands End near Charvil. The warning was issued by the fire brigade after another motorist got stuck this morning at 7:30 am. He was stuck in the ford where the old river crosses the Park Lane.

The motorist immediately called for the fire fighters but the man was told to call for his own vehicle recovery system to get his car removed from the area as there is nothing the fire fighters could do. The man was safe and out of his vehicle due to which the fire fighters refused to help and advised him to call for his own vehicle recovery system.

Nicole Targett from the Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service was amazed on how people still wish to drive though the Ford even after several warnings already issued from the Fir Rescue Team. Thus they have issued another warning after today’s incident. Even before entering the area there is a mark which shows how deep the water is. Currently the level is at 3 to 4ft which is not at all under normal driving conditions. And just next to the water mark there is a sign board warning the drivers about the severe condition. Currently there is a strong current running through the ford.

But this warning does not seem to help. She also added that in today’s incident they clearly refused to remove the vehicle was because the man was safe and he was already warned about his own mishap. She also said that they remove the vehicle only if the people inside the vehicle are not safe or if there is something on the vehicle which is of environment risk.

She sounded extremely concerned when she informed us on how the fire rescue team saved a women’s life last year while she was drowning. She says it is not about the vehicle you are risking by driving through 4ft deep water but due to the new technology you are risking your own life by trapping yourself in the vehicle.


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