It's good news for operators everywhere today as Chancellor Alistair Darling defers the 2p/litre fuel duty hike until October in the 2008 Budget. However, the government has also secretly scrapped plans to charge foreign trucks, although the dropping of the vignette plans weren't announced in the Chancellor's speech or on the Treasury's website.

IThere's more bad news, this time for insurance fraudsters as Vision-Techniques launches a new digital camera designed to catch out fraudsters, by recording footage of any crash and saving it to a secure integral SD memory card.

Meanwhile, the FTA has reacted to the Government's planned Driver CPC Training Card by saying that it will impose "unneccessary administrative budens" and "significant transaction costs". The FTA has also said that, in regards to local road pricing, a number of essential conditions must be fulfilled before it can support the implementation of road pricing schemes, following news that local road pricing schemes have been given a funding boost.

In other news, over on BigLorryBlog Brian Weatherley has learnt that his friend 'Clutchslip' is in Finland, there to visit Wabco's winter test facility.