As with the Hummer...
As with the Hummer, it"s a converted military vehicle - but that"s where the similarity ends. This is the 3.5-tonne Bad Boy Heavy Muscle Truck, and it"s just gone on sale in the US. Developed by Homeland Defense Vehicles, Texas, it costs ํแฃ120,000 and can drive through 5ft of water and up a 60-degree slope.
It"s a fair cop! New...
It"s a fair cop! New Government figures reveal traffic police are offically a dying breed ๒ with some forces slashing patrols by up to 84 per cent.
The Department for Transport survey shows the head count has reduced by nearly 20 per cent across Britain in a decade. Our top five league table reveals that Staffordshire has seen the biggest cut ๒ from 208 traffic officers in 1998, to only 34 now.
A spokeswoman for the force admitted: ๒Increased use of safety cameras and ANPR systems has let us move away from a traffic department and be more targeted and intelligence-led.๒ However, she added: ๒All Staffordshire police officers are trained to deal with traffic matters.๒ In Issue 999, we revealed that Staffordshire had allocated 94 per cent of its าฃ2.4m Local Transport Plan Road Safety Grant to speed cameras ๒ despite being given free rein to spend on other initiatives.
Edmund King, AA president, said: ๒A speed camera does not pick up the illegal foreign truck driver or boy racer with stolen plates, but a traffic cop can. We must reverse this trend to make our roads and society safer.๒