The President of the Irish Road Haulage Association, Verona Murphy, has claimed it is outrageous that politicians are making policies on carbon tax when they do not know enough on the subject.

Gardaí in Co Laois are investigating a report that a number of men were found in the back of a truck.

Witnesses to a collision between a train carrying Republican congressmen and a bin lorry in rural Virginia have told investigators the truck entered the rail crossing after safety gates came down.

The final death toll in October's massive truck bombing in Somalia's capital is 512 people, according to the committee tasked with looking into the country's worst-ever attack.

Latest: The suspect of a 'cowardly act of terror' in New York has been confirmed as Sayfullo Saipov, 29, from Tampa, Florida.

Several protesters have been killed and at least four police injured as hundreds of people demonstrated in Kabul for better security in the Afghan capital, authorities said.

A man has been jailed for 14 months for stealing almost €2,000 worth of “hot pants and things like that” from the back of a delivery truck.

A tipper truck driver who stole his 32-tonne works wagon, almost ran over his boss at the depot and swerved towards a police car has been jailed for six months.

The suspect in the fatal truck attack in Stockholm last month was not mentally disturbed at the time of the incident, according to a medical report.

An articulated truck has jackknifed at a busy junction on the M50 this evening.

Latest: The Stockholm truck attack suspect was an asylum seeker from Uzbekistan who had his application for Swedish residency rejected and was being sought for deportation, police said.

Bosses of a Swedish department store rammed by a stolen lorry have said they regret an announcement it would reopen two days after the deadly attack to sell damaged goods at a "reduced price".

Latest: A man has been arrested in connection with this afternoon's truck attack in Stockholm in which four people were killed and around 12 injured.

Update 12.45pm: A lorry rammed into a group of Israeli soldiers who were disembarking from a bus in Jerusalem on Sunday, killing four people and wounding 15 others, Israeli police and rescue services said.

Time to hop on the festive bandwagon!

Gardaí have seized approximately €100,000 in cash after stopping and searching a vehicle in Dublin.

Gross!!

It has been reported that a truck crashed into a crowd of people on Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France.

Very lucky!

At least 23 people have been killed when a bus trying to avoid an oncoming truck drove off a highway in a remote area of south eastern Peru and tumbled into a river.

A town in Minnesota has been evacuated after a freight train collided with a truck, causing it to catch fire.

Police are trying to determine how a four-year-old boy had access to a gun he used to shoot his mother as she drove a pick-up truck in north Florida.

A truck has caught fire at the Port Tunnel in Dublin.

Police in Nebraska have released footage of one of their officers performing some real life heroics from earlier this month.

Austrian police have discovered the badly-decomposing bodies of at least 20, and possibly up to 50, migrants piled in a truck parked on the shoulder of the main motorway from Budapest to Vienna.

Irish truckers face being injured or killed as a result of the chaotic migrant situation in the French port of Calais.

We would love to have seen the planning stage of this hare-brained scheme.

Alligator: 1. Truck: 0

The viral video of an aggressive driver on the road in Tampa has been viewed on YouTube over 3 million times.