Breaking the law can be an expensive activity. Next month, the penalty for using a mobile phone while driving is to rise to £60 and three penalty points – and operators may soon face a hefty fine of up to £5,000 for failing to download and store digitach data. But this pales in comparison to the £29,000 one freight boss has been ordered to pay for health and safety breaches.
In better news, the price of AdBlue continues to plummet – which may not be of great benefit to Eddie Stobart, seeing as it has put in an order for 500 EGR Scanias.
The big story of the day has to be manufacturer MAN withdrawing its hostile bid for Scania. MAN makes the headlines again with its statement of “unanimous support” for CEO Hakan Samuelsson – but why is our World Trucks blogger so cynical?