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Freight Transport Association joins forces with TruckersWorld to prevent truck theft
The Freight Transport Association (FTA) is to join forces with online truckers’ community TruckersWorld to prevent and protect against truck theft. From October 2009, FTA will be supporting TruckersWorld’s Truck Theft Text Alert (TTTA) as part of the logistics sector’s bid to bring down truck theft and bring those guilty of it to justice. The TTTA scheme passes the details of trucks or trailers which have been stolen to HGV drivers by text an... [more]
The truck of the future will have a digital co-driver on board
Weekends, accidents, bad weather or road-works. There are many reasons for traffic jams, but they all have one thing in common: where there are queues, there is also a risk of accidents. A survey by the European Truck Accident Causation Study shows that 47 per cent of all truck accidents take place in monotonous situations such as traffic jams, with vehicles travelling in the same direction, or in stressful situations such as crossroads and road-... [more]
Volvo Trucks technology helps reduce accidents
40,000 people die on Europe’s roads every year - i.e. more than 100 per day - according to a recent report from ACEA (European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association). However, despite a three-fold increase in traffic over the past 30 years, the number of fatalities in Europe during this same period has been halved, largely thanks to technological developments. “We’ve made significant progress in technology in recent years. In the longer term, ... [more]
Volkswagen reports record sales in 2008
Despite the dramatic deterioration in its business environment, the Volkswagen Group met its unit sales, sales revenue and earnings targets last year and recorded the best figures in its history. Sales revenue grew by 4.5 percent to €113.8 billion on the back of a 1.3 percent rise in unit sales to 6.3 million vehicles. At €6.3 billion, operating profit was up by 3.0 percent year-on-year. Profit after tax amounted to €4.7 billion (+13.7 percent). ... [more]
GAZ Group unveils MAXUS electric vehicle
GAZ Group has premiered its very first MAXUS electric vehicle. The fully driveable prototype is currently on test with key customers, as the company finalises specifications, launch plans and markets across Europe. The new electric vehicle prototype has been developed by GAZ Group’s UK business, LDV Group. The vehicle has been specified by a major home delivery fleet operator with the following specification: • Payload of up to 1446 kg • Fiv... [more]
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Twenty trucks a year stuck at low Shrewsbury bridge
About 20 lorries a year are getting stuck under a low bridge in Shrewsbury town centre causing misery for motorists, it was claimed today.
Furness haulier unveils new fleet
A FURNESS cattle haulage company has responded to the thriving beef market by enhancing its fleet with four new state-of-the-art trucks.
Unwanted humps bad for car tyres
From MICHAEL NG, Seremban.
Ethiopian troops battle Somali rebels blocking supplies
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Ethiopian troops and Somali government forces killed 17 al Shabaab rebels on Thursday after the Islamist militants blocked a road in southern Somalia and stole goods, a regional official said. Mohamed Abdi Mayow, the governor of Bakool region, said the al Qaeda-linked militants had been blocking trucks carrying supplies to Hudur for seven weeks and had unloaded goods from ...
Illegal barricade up again
A two-metre-high gantry, at Petaling Garden that was mysteriously put up, and then removed about a month ago, has been replaced with a new structure.
Stopping the illegal miners
This edition carries a story about a police operation that was undertaken during the week to root out illegal sand miners in Gabane, just 10 kilometres from the city centre of the capital.
Over-height lorries to be diverted onto Huntingdonshire’s busiest street
AN £8-11million scheme to strengthen part of the A14 viaduct in Huntingdon will reduce the headroom by just 10cm on Brampton Road, sending over-height articulated lorries on a detour both ways along Huntingdon’s busiest road.
Sibu Daiichi Sarawak Motor Racing on this weekend
SIBU: The Daiichi Sarawak Motor Racing Championship 2012 to be held this weekend is expected to thrill the public here with an array of interesting events being lined for the day.
Councillors want Coillte to foot bill for truck-damaged roads
Local authority members want both Coillte and privately-run forestry operations to pay for damage by pounding trucks to rural roads in Cork county.
Truck drivers at Tanah Merah wait hours just to dump their load
Most of them pass the time by reading or sleeping. -TNP
