Lots of manufacturer and bodybuilder news today – Kässbohrer becomes the latest company to offer an aerodynamic curtainsider trailer, Czech firm Kobit announces plans to move into the UK market for sweepers, and, of course, Iveco’s new Eurocargo makes its official debut.

For more pictures of the Eurocargo, navigate over to BigLorryBlog later today – or, if you can wait that long, BLB hopes to have a driving impression up on the blog tomorrow. In the meantime, have a look at BigLorryBlog’s photos of some classic ex-British working wagons still going strong in Malta.

So the effects of the credit crunch are still revealing themselves, and in the latest development analysts are "surprised" by the level of market slowdown. It appears that as many as one in seven haulage firms could go bust if things don't improve.

But some firms are defying the current tough trading conditions, among them the finalists of the MT awards. The winners will be announced on 2 July at the Grosvenor House Hotel, in London, so don’t forget to book your table.