Probably today’s biggest news story is the London fuel protest, in which two convoys of trucks converged on Marble Arch to call for the government to help operators with the high cost of diesel. For information on all such instances of direct action past and present, see the special RT.com ‘fuel protests’ page.

There's good news for manufacturing giant Paccar, which announces strong turnover and forecasts further growth in western and central Europe. It’s a very similar picture at Jost, with markets outside the US “buoyant” and demand for its vehicle connection systems growing worldwide.

Congestion and emission charging schemes also feature heavily in today’s news: no decision has yet been made as to whether trucks will have to pay Manchester’s planned congestion charge, and Frigoblock has questioned why TfL does not consider emissions from truck refrigeration units entering the London LEZ. For the background on this latter scheme, see RT.com’s ‘London Low Emission Zone’ page in the Hot Topics section of the site.

And over in BigLorryBlog, Clutchslip focuses on heavy haulage with a look at the transportation of the 70-tonne Soviet Buran space shuttle to the Technik Museum in south-west Germany.