Trucks World News: * EUROPE TRUCKERS' STRIKES & PROTESTS

Europe -Jazz Blog (USA), by Jazzy -14 June 2008: --

* Spain: Hauliers' unions vowed to press on with protests, rejecting measures to end the three-day nationwide protests over rising fuel prices... In San Isidro, near Alicante, a lorry driver is being treated for serious burns after narrowly escaping an attempt by strikers to burn him alive in his cab. Fire destroyed four trucks and damaged a fifth at the industrial park... The incident, being investigated by police, followed the death near Granada on Tuesday of a picketing haulier hit by a lorry...

(The hauliers say fuel prices consume up to 60 per cent of their income)

(Clashes: Spanish police arrive to break up a picket line by striking Spanish truckers in Iznalloz, near Granada)

(A protesting farmer throws produce at riot police in Almeria, southern Spain)

(Fuel anger: An injured farmer kneels in front of riot police during clashes between fuel-protest farmers and riot police in Almeria)

(Mourners in Peligros, Granada, carry the coffin of Julio Cervilla Sojo, the Spanish picket who died on Tuesday after being knocked down by a lorry driver)

(Scorched: A man walks past a burned truck during a transport strike in Azamabuja north of Lisbon, Portugal)

* Portugal: Shortages are also beginning to bite in neighbouring Portugal, where retailers have said food stocks at supermarkets are beginning to run out, and several petrol stations in Lisbon ran dry yesterday... Portuguese farmers said they would have to throw away 660,000 gallons of fresh milk by the end of the day unless the protest ended because they had run out of storage capacity... A striker died as he tried to stop a truck on a road north of the capital...

* The Netherlands: Lorry drivers said they would limit speed to 30mph on a number of Dutch roads today in protest at calls for a diesel excise duty. They also want a system to stabilise diesel prices by lowering duties when oil prices rise and raising them when they fall...