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<title>UK drivers face 5 years prison for avoidable careless driving</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Today – Monday 18 August 2008 – sees the introduction of tough new prison sentences to crack down on careless UK motorists who continue to flout laws aimed at eliminating the avoidable use of mobile phones and satellite navigation whilst driving.]]></description>
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<dc:subject>Navigation </dc:subject>
<dc:date>2008-08-28T19:31:51-05:00</dc:date>
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<title>FTA wants LGV friendly sat-nav</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Manufacturers of satellite navigation systems are being asked to give more help to truck drivers because so many LGVs are becoming stuck after being sent down unsuitable roads. ]]></description>
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<title>Sat-nav tackles congested HGV 'rat runs' </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sat-nav tackles congested HGV 'rat runs'

Digital road routing information from the Ordnance Survey (OS) is being used by sat-nav mapping company Tele Atlas on its map database to help prevent lorries getting stuck down small roads and villages.]]></description>
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<title>Higher Road Tax</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Nine out of 10 motorists face higher road tax under changes announced in this week's Budget, it has been claimed.

The TaxPayers' Alliance calculated that 88% of vehicles would be hit with higher duty, while only 9% would leave their owners better off.

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<dc:subject>Running Costs</dc:subject>
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<title>The Fuel Protest Group Transaction 2007</title>
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<description><![CDATA[&#8216;The following statement is released on 10th December 2007 at 10:15Hrs

Transaction2007 have decided to release the date and time of protest action earlier than scheduled. This is to enable the motorist and public to better prepare themselves for the coming action.]]></description>
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<dc:subject>Running Costs</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2007-12-16T09:09:23-05:00</dc:date>
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<title>Lorry driver had to sleep in cab for three nights after sat-nav blunder left him</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A lorry driver who was led off course by his sat nav got his HGV so tightly wedged in a narrow country lane he had to spend three nights sleeping in his cab before being rescued.]]></description>
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<dc:subject>Navigation </dc:subject>
<dc:date>2007-12-15T19:37:02-05:00</dc:date>
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<title> She's Driving the Lorry</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Junk-food bellies, greasy T-shirts and a hairy armful of tattoos probably sum up most people&#8217;s image of a typical lorry driver. Trucking is the last bastion of machismo. Only about 1% of truckers are women, a smaller proportion than among airline pilots and firefighters.]]></description>
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<dc:subject>Women Truck Drivers</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2007-11-25T13:41:34-05:00</dc:date>
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<title>A woman's place is in the cab </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The trucking industry is short of drivers and has turned to women to fill the gap. So how does it feel to take on macho man at his own game, asks Jane Mulkerrins]]></description>
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<title>Scottish initiative to fill the trucking skills gap </title>
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<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Being a truck driver is something I&#8217;ve always wanted to do, I just never got the opportunity,&#8221; says Linda Jackson, one of 15 women that trained as large goods vehicle (LGV) drivers in 2005 as part of a Scottish pilot project. ]]></description>
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<dc:date>2007-11-25T13:11:49-05:00</dc:date>
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<title>FOREIGN TRUCKER JAILED FOR M5 DRINK-DRIVING</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ A foreign driver was nearly four times the drink-drive limit when he was caught on a Westcountry motorway at the wheel of the heaviest type of lorry allowed on British roads.]]></description>
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<dc:subject>Legal News</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2007-11-18T17:04:58-05:00</dc:date>
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<title>Please arrest us, beg the EU truckers made to drive for 30 hours</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Exhausted foreign lorry drivers are pleading with police to arrest them so they can get some food and sleep.
 
 
 Fearing the sack from unscrupulous bosses if they stop voluntarily, they dial 999 as they drive along giving details of their registration and where they are. 
 When a traffic patrol pulls them over, they ask to be arrested &#8211; despite the fact it means a night in a cell and paying a fine. ]]></description>
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<dc:subject>Legal News</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2007-11-18T16:55:49-05:00</dc:date>
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<title>Defective Tyres</title>
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<description><![CDATA[According to a report from Hertfordshire police, defective tyres are one of the top five causes of death and injury on Hertfordshire roads.]]></description>
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<title>Q: How high must price of fuel go before motorists are driven off the roads? A: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[MOTORISTS are so attached to their cars they would continue to drive until fuel nearly doubled in price, according to a survey published today.  
The poll found that petrol would have to reach &#163;1.83 a litre to have a major impact on car use, compared to current average pump prices of nearly &#163;1 a litre.]]></description>
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<dc:subject>Running Costs</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2007-11-13T16:45:22-05:00</dc:date>
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<title>Hauliers avoid fuel cost protests </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Truckers in Scotland have ruled out protests over rising fuel prices which they claim have been devastating smaller firms.
Members of the Road Haulage Association of Scotland (RHAS) organised a meeting in the wake of fuel breaching the &#163;1-a-litre mark. 
RHAS said feelings have been running as high as at the time of the fuel demonstrations in 2000.  ]]></description>
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<dc:date>2007-11-13T16:39:22-05:00</dc:date>
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<title>Low Emission Zone high cost, minimal benefit </title>
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<description><![CDATA[


The Mayor of London plans to charge high polluting vehicles to enter London will bring virtually no added improvements to the capitals air quality despite costing around £600 million to introduce and enforce says London Councils.
The Mayor is seeking to introduce a Low Emission Zone (LEZ) from 2008 to reduce the pollution being pumped into Londons air from vehicle exhausts. Under the scheme vehicles like heavy goods lorries, vans, coaches and buses would have to pay to drive through the c]]></description>
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<dc:date>2007-11-13T15:59:42-05:00</dc:date>
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