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Isuzu’s Director and Chief Operating Officer, Phil Taylor. is drawing the industry’s attention to the yawning gap between the public perception of trucks on the road and the actual facts as they stand today. On reading the report from a recent survey into the public attitude towards the transport industry there is a very obvious [...]

The repositioning of Volkswagen has begun with the German carmaker selling off its truck and bus manufacturing capacity in Brazil to MAN, a company of which they still own 20%. The sale, worth US$2.4 billion, has been announced this week and will take effect in the first quarter of 2009.

The transport industry in the USA is trying to catch up with something the rest of the world has been doing for many years. They have decided to to lobby hard to get an increase in the allowable GCM on the roads of the United States.

Two separate surveys released in recent months appear to contradict each other with the results contrasting strongly in terms of the pressure trucking people are under when going about their work.

Fatigue issues hamstring operators Inconsistent fatigue rules introduced in a mish-mash of forms and then delayed because neither the authorities or the operators had been correctly informed or prepared are causing consternation in the transport industry.

It would be unjust to describe the redesign of the National Transport Commission’s website as a  case of rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic, but there is a hint of the repackaging of the same old stuff and disguising the glacial movement in transport industry reform.