Today's big news is the appointment of Theo de Pencier as the new chief executive of the Freight Transport association - exclusively revealed on Roadtransport.com yesterday afternoon. Theo will succeed the retiring Richard Turner on July 1st.

But here's another surprise - the leader of the Conservative party is interested in trucks! The (occasionally) tree-hugging David Cameron* has visited Scania in Södertälje, along with the Swedish prime minister. And what's Scania CEO Leif Östling saying to himself here?

We're not sure, but we think it might be, "All that expensive education, and you still don't know how to tie a tie, eh?"

That road pricing petition won't go away - another 150,000 signatures have been added in the last 24 hours, despite the No 10 website proving difficult to access at times.

* not the David Cameron who tests vans for Motor Transport...