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There was high praise indeed for long-time truck campaigner Rod Hannifey on the anti-truck website ‘Coast to Coast 100′. A recently published article on the site congratulated him on his work for safety on the roads and his constant lobbying for road improvements.

The story of the fork lift truck driver who posted his fork lift hooning activities on YouTube, presumably assuming nobody was going to go onto the web, look at the video and recognise him and his workplace.

Transport Certification Australia (TCA), the company administering the Intelligent Access Program (IAP), has announced that Sigtec has advised TCA of its intention to cease being an IAP Service Provider.

Freightlink, the company running the troubled Darwin to Adelaide rail link, has gone into voluntary administration because it was unable to get full consent for a sale from all stakeholders. The company insists it will be business as usual with an expectation of continuing growth.

With the release of the Treasury’s Midyear Economic Forecasts Wayne Swan has revealed the economic downturn has blown a $40 billion hole in projected government revenue in the next few years. Investment in Australia’s infrastructure is the area expected to be most affected by this shortfall.

Scuderi are showing the Scuderi Engine to the Japanese automotive industry this week at the Nagoya Eco Clean Car Fair, an exhibition run by the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), a government-related organisation that works to promote mutual trade and investment between Japan and the rest of the world.

The boys from Top Gear get a bit of a taste of the real world of truckies when the take what they call the “Lorry Challenge”. Once you get over the fact they keep on calling them lorries it is quite funny.

Some worrying information about the legal implications or mixing your own bio diesel on site as a transport operator have been recently highlighted by the Australian Trucking Association’s weekly newsletter, The Friday Facts.