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Today in Road Transport 12th February 2007

People power has put the road pricing debate on the front pages today, as the petition against road charging on the 10 Downing Street website exceeded 1 million signatures - and caused a transport minister to promise a debate on the subject.

Our bloggers have got themselves worked up about it too, as you can see - with Colin Barnett frothing at the mouth about a potential £25,000-a-year bill (!) and Oliver Dixon extolling the virtues of longer, heavier trucks. He calls them LHVs - will it catch on, do you think?

Elsewhere, Oliver keeps stirring the pot of the MAN/Scania/VW stew, and points out that DAF is massively increasing production capacity at Eindhoven.

And Volvo is making an investment in alternative fuel production - from paper pulp.

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