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prices include next day deliveryLocal authorities in seven areas across the country will share over £7 million to explore ways to tackle local congestion as a further step towards longer-term national decisions on road pricing, Transport Secretary Alistair Darling said on 28 November.
Mitsubishi has been building pick-ups for sixty years and the current generation L200 is the market leader in Europe with sales of 340,000 since 1996. Built in Thailand, 700,000 units have been shipped worldwide since 1988, 52,000 of which have found homes in the UK. The L200 has led its market sector in the UK since 2001.
Twenty-eight Volkswagen LT46 minibus conversions, worth some £850,000, have joined Ring and Ride, the dial-a-ride service run by charity West Midlands Special Needs Transport.
All long-wheelbase high-roof 109 bhp 2.5-litre diesels, they were supplied through dealer Volkswagen Van Centre North Midlands. Midland Coach Concepts of Birmingham carried out the conversion work.
An international jury of specialist LCV journalists from 19 European countries has named the new Fiat Doblo Cargo, which made its public debut in Holland last week, International Van of the Year 2006.
A call for the trial suspension of tolls at the Dartford Crossing has been issued by the Freight Transport Association (FTA).
Such a move will instantly make traffic run more smoothly, underlining the massive amount of congestion the tolls create as drivers queue to pay, the association argues. Unplugging the bottleneck will also make it easier for the government to assess whether a second crossing will really be needed in the future, it adds.
According to Bernd Wiedemann, CEO of Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, the all-new LT — due for launch at the British CV Show in April 2006 — will be built alongside the next generation Mercedes Sprinter at DaimlerChrysler’s factories in Dusseldorf and Ludwigsfeld.
The results of an SMMT survey released today (31 October) showed that most people are not familiar with the active safety technologies fitted to new cars such as ABS and ESP.
The survey, which sampled 110 people in central London, showed that: