This Christmas, a local community in a Norwegian village came to together to provide food, warmth, support and even a flight home for an experienced Romanian truck driver who refused to drive his employer's truck in snowy conditions with heavily worn tyres. 

Villagers aid trucker who refused to drive HGV with worn tyres in heavy snow

New weighing systems installed on Czech motorways to detect overweight trucks are finding thousands of overloaded HGV every month. However, <a href="https://tn.nova.cz/auto/clanek/447638-pretizene-kamiony-dal-nici-ceske-dalnice-moderni-vazeni-za-miliony-zatim-moc-nefunguje" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Czech Republic's Nova News channel</a>, administrative shortcomings and technical issues mean that many guilty truck owners are never fined. 

Hauliers avoiding overload fines despite new smart scales on Czech motorways

A new cycle lane in Dorset, one of the UK's widest, is reportedly causing lorries to clip wing mirrors as a result of the road alongside it being narrowed to just 9 foot and 5 inches per lane. By contrast, the cycle lane is 11 foot and 2 inches wide. 

HGVs “clipping wing mirrors” due to 11-foot cycle lane narrowing road

Scrap IR35, you may get a few thousand back on board


Villagers aid trucker who refused to drive HGV with worn tyres in heavy snow

Hauliers avoiding overload fines despite new smart scales on Czech motorways

HGVs “clipping wing mirrors” due to 11-foot cycle lane narrowing road

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