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Sandvik Mining and Construction and Volvo Construction Equipment have jointly held a series of machinery demonstrations and customer events in Sweden.

A UK driver using his hands-free phone was spotted laughing at a joke by a police traffic officer and pulled over. The driver was told that laughing while driving can be an offence and was then questioned by the officer for 30 minutes. During this questioning, the driver was asked the colour of his hair.

A series of PPP highway projects look likely to be announced in Tanzania in due course.

Honda has developed a pet-friendly vehicle specially for dog lovers that is aimed at the US market. The utility vehicle comes complete with a well-padded dog bed in the rear, as well as a built-in water bowl and a fan to provide cooling on hot days. In addition, smaller, older or otherwise less mobile dogs benefit from a ramp that allows them to climb in more easily. The car has been developed specifically for this niche US market, which Honda believes is as yet untapped.

A new highway link is opening today in the Scottish city of Glasgow.

Golf fanatics with money to burn can now invest in an exclusive buggy that is built to order. Costing some US$64,000, the buggy is assembled in the same factory used to build Porsche’s Boxster and Cayman models. Meanwhile structural components for this performance buggy are made by the same firm supplying Aston Martin and Jaguar. With its top speed of 56km/h, the buggy can hardly match the Aston Martin, Jaguar or Porsche models for performance although it is said to offer similar levels of build quality and

The Israel National Roads Company (INRC) is organising an international networking event to unveil the large-scale transportation infrastructure projects being led by the firm.

A video clip posted in China recently showed a young girl aged just four or so steering her parents’ car along a busy highway. The proud parent sat alongside her and gave her advice as she steered the vehicle along a busy stretch of road and overtook a series of other vehicles. The proud father eventually told the little girl to pull the car over to the side of the road so he could take the wheel again. The video revealed that the girl used pieces of wood to operate the foot pedals. China’s police now take

In preparation for commercial launch later this year, Better Place has unveiled the company's first battery switch station in Europe at an event in Gladsaxe, just outside Copenhagen.

Bidding is now in hand for a 1,150km toll road concession project in Argentina. The route will run along Argentina's Atlantic Coast in Buenos Aires Province and the concession will be for a 30 year period.

A truck accident in Bavaria’s capital Munich was the stuff of nightmares for the city’s beer drinkers. The truck shed a load of thousands of beer bottles but as firefighters cleared up after the incident, they simply hosed the beer down the drain. Famed for its beer festival, Munich is also known for the quality of its beer. The crash caused traffic jams to the city centre until the emergency services were able to clear up the spill. However the city’s beer lovers are likely to remember the wasted beer for

A Romanian truck driver has now realised that posting video clips of his antics while at the wheel has had serious repercussions that affect his chosen career. The man filmed himself dancing around the cab of his truck to music, oblivious to the risks that this posed to other road users as well as himself while his vehicle thundered along at highway speeds. The man gave the recordings to a TV station after videoing his own behaviour for the amusement of his friends. The man filmed himself unfastening his se

The German construction equipment manufacturer's association, the VDMA, has stated that the new EU-exhaust emission directive presents a major challenge for its members.

A Dutch firm has come up with a GPS system that uses music to guide its users. This special phone application can be used to navigate aurally and if the sound seemed to come through the right earphone, this is where the system is attempting to guide the user. Should the sound come from the left, this is the direction intended. However safety may be an issue that the designer has not considered as wearing earphones while cycling, motorcycling or driving a car, bus or truck is not recommended.

The opening of a 1.8km tunnel in southern England is designed to ease traffic bottlenecks in an environmentally sensitive area. Patrick Smith reports

Work on a key road project in Belarus is being financed by Chinese sources.

A British man was sent to prison for four years after being stopped by police while he was in the process of stealing a JCB telehandler. In his attempts to elude following police, the man veered wildly along narrow roads with no thought for other road users. He then drove the telehandler through a graveyard, smashing headstones and damaging graves in his escape bid. This proved fruitless however as a police helicopter had joined the pursuit and was able to direct police cars towards the speeding JCB. The ma

Thailand’s Metropolitan Police plan to install intelligent dummies in police roles across capital Bangkok. Nicknamed Sergeant Idly Silent, the dummies will be sited at 13 locations across the city and will keep a close watch for traffic violations using on-board CCTV equipment and ANPR technology. The aim of the dummies will be to aid their human counterparts in tracking those contravening traffic laws. Given the city’s reputation for its ‘spirited’ drivers, it seems like that the dummies will be kept busy.

Twin-layer paving offers high quality, long lasting road surfaces to be constructed. Paver manufacturer Dynapac is one of the pioneers of the twin-layer paving technique, which it calls Compactasphalt. According to Dynapac this method offers major benefits to contractors and clients alike as roads surfaced using this technique last longer and are cheaper to maintain. To ensure contractors have maximum utilisation of their machines, Dynapac offers a modular paver system that can be operated using the convent

Police in Norway spotted a vehicle travelling at an average 133km/h in a 100km/h zone along the E18 highway, some 40km from capital Oslo and gave pursuit. After the police tailed the vehicle for a kilometre, officers then stopped the car at a service station. The police realised the occupants, a man and a woman, were otherwise engaged but exercised discretion when describing the couple's second offence. However they did add that as the driver's attention was clearly distracted he faces a lengthy ban from dr