Yesterday I wrote about a fresh bout of acquisitions in the industry, but is seems that such growth can be risky: one of today’s lead stories sees Ramage Group go into administration citing a number of “contributory factors” in the wake of last year’s acquisition of rival Scots haulier UFD Group.

One industry player with ambitious growth plans is Isuzu Motors, and we also have further details of Isuzu Truck UK’s all-new line-up of vehicles between 3.5 and 18 tonnes.

Another big story today is Vosa’s announcement that its Inverness test station is to stop offering pre-test checks; checks of another nature feature in our legal section as a firm whose driver did not carry out an adequate daily walk-round check finds its licence under threat following a wheel-loss incident.

Over in the blogs, BigLorryBlog checks out a Commer truck advert from 1944 and John English questions whether the Euro emissions limits are really helping the environment.