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• Driving A Roadtrain Across The Australian Outback Can Be
a risky business, as Garth Evans from Toowoomba found out one night while driving along Condamine Highway at a place called Yuleba Creek. A herd of cattle suddenly appeared in......
• Since The Controversial Arrival Of The Guardian Angels On
the Capital's underground system, several groups have requested the American-style taskforce to patrol other areas of the country. Shop traders, housing associations and now,......
• Some Bad News Stories About Commercial Vehicles Tend To
give the impression that the truck driver has achieved public enemy status. However, for the lady stranded two weeks ago on the busy A41 north of Banbury, the myth was blown —......
• Take Heart All You Teenage Male Fledglings. You Are
more than 20% more likely to pass your driving test than women, and more than twice as likely to pass than the over 60s. That's the result of a Government survey of more than......
• It Seems That Driving In America Has Become Akin
to a Wild West shoot-out. Some road users are becoming so accustomed to the guy behind them literally riding shotgun that they even carry out their own first-aid when hit.......
• Many People In The Transport Industry Are Well Known
for their hot air. Peter Lane Transport, however, relied on truck power when it moved 12 huge balloons from Bristol to Lithuania for the first Russian Balloon Fiesta.......
• Gordon Davies Is A Bus Spotter Par Excellence But
his is a monogamous obsession — his affections for 30 years have been reserved exclusively for AEC Regent number 477. And now Davies has tied the knot by buying the bus he first......
• A Garage Owner And Building Site Agent, Who Used
a tractor and a JCB excavator in a jousting contest to settle a long-standing argument, landed in court last week. The row on a Clwyd building site started when John Hayes built......
• Shannon Krivanek, 21, Was Driving In Iowa When A
bullet hit his car's rear window. It struck him behind the right ear but luckily did not penetrate his skull. Krivanek calmly removed the bullet with a pair of pliers before......
• Possibly The Last Aec Marshalls To Be Plated Back
in the 1960s are going on the road again with Midlands haulier John Davies of A R Davies of Kingswinford. When Davies bought the four British beauties they had been languishing......
• Southfields Blew Its Own Trumpet For The Unveiling Of
its new refrigerated trailer at the recent IRTE show in Telford. It piped-in the Coldstream Guards band for the occasion (Cold. . .guard — geddit?), A crowd gathered as a trio......