RT.com is always full of interesting vehicles with unusual applications, today especially so. Utility company National Grid is using modified Daf LF45s and a technique known as ‘core and vac’ to reduce the disruption caused by road repairs; over in the blogs, BigLorryBlog checks out some articulated forklift trucks as well as a twin trailer combo in Melbourne, Australia.

Moving blogs to the Operators’ Voice, Prestons of Potto MD David Preston suggests some unusual ways of coping with the current high cost of fuel. This is an issue affecting many, not least Lincolnshire-based Geoff Gilbert International, which may sell off its transport arm “due to increasing competition from European operators, tough legislation and increasing fuel prices”.

Those fuel prices make it ever more important for operators to achieve the maximum efficiency possible – Freight Best Practice is currently looking for operators to take part in an online benchmarking pilot. Rounding off today's stories, Rikki Chequer writes about the state of the industry according to TruckNet UK, and looks forward to Truckfest.