Germany launches motorway toll for trucks
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Germany, one of the few countries in Europe where motorways are still toll-free, is to start charging trucks for use of the country's chronically overcrowded "Autobahns" next month in a move that some believe could open the door to a general toll for all motorists.
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German industrial conglomerate MAN AG   MANG.DE bid 9.6 billion euros ($12.2 billion) in cash and   stock for Sweden's Scania AB SCVb.ST in a deal that would   create the European truck market leader.
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Members of one of Germany's governing parties on Saturday backed a proposal to introduce a speed limit on highways, a measure that would revoke a cherished freedom in this rule-bound country and was likely to be met with resistance.
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Labour conflict looks set to boil over in the German automobile sector in the coming weeks as car makers such as Volkswagen and Opel seek to impose rigorous belt-tightening measures as an answer to chronically weak demand.
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"With the legally binding minimum wages for postal workers ... the burden for the company will be too strong"  Germany's lower house of parliament on Friday approved instituting a minimum wage for letter carriers -- putting an end to an issue that has fueled tension in the left-right coalition government. via Boston.com
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STUTTGART, Germany  - DaimlerChrysler's  market-leading trucks business will make an operating profit this year despite a sharp U.S. market contraction, division head Andreas Renschler told reporters on Friday.
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India's out-sourcing capital Bangalore is to get an $87m (Â£48m) new toll motorway in a fresh bid to tackle congestion.
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HAMBURG (Deutsche Welle) - Germany's Social Democrats ended a party conference with an unexpected vote for speed limits on the country's motorways and criticism of Chancellor Merkel's stance on EU membership for Turkey. Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) voted in favor of introducing a top speed of 130 kph (80 mph) on Germany's famed speed limit-free Autobahns or motorways. The non-binding measure however will be hard to pass into law in the face of opposition by Chancellor Merkel's center-right Christian Democratic Party (CDU), the SPD's coalition partner. The conference produced another surprise when German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier rebuked Chancellor Merkel for holding out the promise of EU membership to Turkey for decades, contingent on reforms, but then withdrew support.
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Automaker DaimlerChrysler AG said Friday it will charge 400 million euros (&#36;492 million) against earnings in the third quarter to cover the cost of recalls and past quality problems at Japanese truckmaker Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corp, which is 65 percent owned by DaimlerChrysler.
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Volkswagen&#39;s labor negotiations in Germany began Wednesday with union demands for raises and job guarantees and company calls for a two-year pay freeze.
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The European Commission has begun legal action against Germany over the so-called &quot;Volkswagen law&quot; which protects the carmaker from hostile takeovers.
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Inflation in Germany, the eurozone's biggest economy, picked up this month as a result of a renewed surge in oil prices, key regional data showed.
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The German government has unveiled a series of measures aimed at bringing the country&#39;s public deficit back below the eurozone&#39;s 3% of GDP limit in 2005.
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The German government is seeking nearly &#36;6 billion in compensation from the consortium running a much-delayed project to collect truck tolls using satellite technology, the country's transport minister said Thursday.
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Government transport advisers are preparing for the launch of the world's largest road-tolling scheme to see whether it provides a workable model for the introduction of universal charging in Britain.
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PRAGUE- The Czech Republic has refused to obey EU rules and despite the European Commission's disagreement intends to raise prices of short-term motorway toll stickers for lorries, daily Mlada fronta Dnes wrote ...
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Germany's high-tech truck toll system, which relies on GPS technology and GSM wireless networks, began operation on Saturday without a glitch.