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Friday, 17 November 2017

BBC News

• Uber London licence appeal 'could take years'TfL deemed Uber unfit to run a taxi service and refused to renew its licence in September.
• Tax disc: Car tax evasion triples after paper version scrappedThe government potentially lost out on £107m from 755,000 unlicensed vehicles in the past year, data shows.

Financial Times

• Car tax evasion triples after scrapping of paper discTreasury may be losing out on up to £107m revenues a year
• Tesla unleashes supercar from newly launched truckElon Musk says revamped Roadster will be ‘fastest production car ever made’

The Guardian

• Number of untaxed vehicles in UK trebles after tax disc abolitionAround £107m a year in road improvement revenue is being lost after DVLA reveals untaxed cars and vans on UK roads has surged to 700,000
• Elon Musk unveils Tesla electric truck and a surprise new sports carUsing diesel trucks now economic suicide, says Musk but questions persist over company's capacity to meet demandElon Musk unveiled Tesla's first electric semi-truck on Thursday evening at an event in Los Angeles that also included the surprise reveal of a new Tesla sports car. The new Roadster, which has the same name as the first electric vehicle produced by Tesla from 2008 to 2012, emerged from the back of one of the trucks at the end of a presentation that focused largely on the economic and performance needs of truck drivers.

The Telegraph

• Car tax evasion triples after scrapping of paper discs 

Times Online

• Diesel drivers face £2-an-hour parking charge [Subscription]Owners of diesel cars face a £2-an-hour surcharge to use parking bays under plans revealed yesterday.
• Car tax evasion triples after paper discs are scrapped [Subscription]The abolition of the paper tax disc is costing the government ten times as much in unpaid tax as it hoped to save in cuts to red tape.

City AM

• Uber licence appeal could take years, says London mayor Sadiq KhanUber's appeal against a decision not to renew its licence in the capital is likely to go on for years, the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has said.

Mail Online

• Car tax goes online as number of licence cheats trebles The Government claimed it would save £10million a year by reducing tax evasion and cutting costs when it replaced paper discs with an online system in October 2014.

Other Regional Press

• Traffic to be diverted via LINCOLN to avoid roadworks on the A17Road resurfacing works on a stretch of the A17 between Sleaford and the A1 at Newark will see three weeks of overnight closures and drivers ordered to re-route via Lincoln.

Other News Sources

• Elon Musk just put the rail industry on notice... Tesla CEO Elon Musk didn't just announce his plans to remake the trucking industry. He also served notice to rail carriers.
• Transport Secretary praises FTA work to address skills shortageThe Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has praised the work of the Freight Transport Association to attract the next generation of logistics ...