Trucks and lorries news articles 
Cost of Penalty Charge Notices for commercial operators tops £600 million a year
PCN costs in the UK have now topped £1.3 billion, of which at least £500 million per year falls to commercial operators. Operators also spend an estimated £100 million processing and appealing PCNs, bringing the total to at least £600 million. With the cost of Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) for commercial operators having topped £600 million a year, the Freight Transport Association has challenged traffic authorities to sort out ‘Critical Deli... [more]
Volvo Trucks and Securitas launch security system aimed at lowering the risk of theft and hijacking
Truck drivers and the goods they transport live dangerously on Europe’s roads. This is shown in several recent surveys. Every year approximately 200,000 commercial vehicles are stolen, at a value of more than €7 billion (£5.6bn), as revealed in a survey carried out in 2007 on behalf of the European Parliament. At the same time, a survey by the International Road Transport Union (IRU) reveals that one in six truck drivers have been subjected t... [more]
Iveco reduces lead times for Stralis and Trakker to six months
Henk van Leuven, Managing Director of Iveco UK, said: “My colleagues at Iveco headquarters in Turin have identified the UK as one of the major European growth markets and are redirecting production accordingly. This has enabled us to reduce lead times for factory-ordered product to just six months, whilst many of our dealers also have stock available in the country now, for immediate delivery,” he adds. Iveco has reduced lead times for its Str... [more]
Kumho displays SOLUS KH19 eco-friendly tyre
Kumho has displayed 30 products including a new eco-friendly tyre, SOLUS KH19, at REIFEN 2008, Essen, Germany, last week. The SOLUS KH19 Tyre is Kumho’s flagship eco-friendly product and is based on proprietary technologies including KADAS (tyre structure simulation technology), ESCOT (tyre contour optimisation technology) and TTIA (tyre-terrain interaction analysis). The tyre boasts a 35 per cent improvement in rolling resistance and a six pe... [more]
Spraydown reduces drag and achieves fuel savings of up to 4%
As transport operators come under increasing pressure because of rising fuel costs, Spraydown, the Heavy Goods Vehicle spray suppression system, has announced the results of recent fuel and drag tests: fuel savings of up to 4%. The system, launched at the CV Show in April, already achieves over 40% reduction in wet weather spray obscuration caused by heavy vehicles, compared with existing devices, currently in use. Now, in further strictly co... [more]
Trucks and lorries in the news
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.
Is there no supervision of our roads?
From FWC SEOW of Kuala Lumpur.
Pak looking for 'positive conversation' over NATO supply resumption: Sherry Rehman
Islamabad, May 20 (ANI): Pakistan's Ambassador to the U.S. Sherry Rehman has said that Islamabad is looking at 'positive conversation' about reopening of NATO supply routes during the Chicago Summit.
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.
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.
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 ...
UK’s ABI Warns Metal Theft Crime Wave Costs Insurers over $1.6 Million a Week
“The victims of the UK’s metal theft crime wave are now being paid out over £1 million [$1.58 million] every week by insurers,” according to the Association of British Insurers. Thieves are making off with everything from “train cables to …
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
