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Dudley driver Martin Holden who kept driving over his hours to find a clear picture on his mobile TV to watch a Manchester United football match has been fined £170 by West Bromwich magistrates.
1=1 Thieves stale four pallets of digital cameras from a truck parked overnight in a lay-by on the A419 near Cirencester while the driver was asleep in his cab.
SWITCH AHOY
P&O Stena Line is now accepting Switch cards to pay for meals and services on its ferries.
NEL COO
There will be a national day of protest against high fuel prices in Italy on 6 May; delays are likely.
NOV CURFEW
Trucks over 7.5 tonnes are now banned from the main 01-3 Budapest-Trieste road in the town of Murska Sobota between 22:00-06:00hrs.
CHIRINEL BOOST
Eurotunnel carried 263,830 trucks during the first quarter of 2000; up 42% on the first quarter of 1999.
MIOTEST SAWN°
Shropshire driver Robert Jenkins, who blocked the entrance to Nato's Brussels HQ to protest at the jailing in Macedonia of his friend Richard Hudson, has been sacked by Stoke haulier DWP.
SEVERN BLOCKADE
Up to 20 recovery vehicles blockaded the second Severn crossing over the Easter holiday in a protest about the Gwent police decision to allocate all breakdown work to a single operator. Traffic backed up on the M4 as motorists were diverted to the other Severn crossing.