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Two stalwarts of the trucking industry are going to receive the accolades they are due at the upcoming Australian Trucking Association Technical and Maintenance Conference being held at Silverwater Resort next to Phillip Island in November. They are the nominees for the Craig Roseneder Award to be presented at the Awards Dinner on day two [...]

The Australian Trucking Association’s Chairman and CEO, Trevor Martyn and Stuart St Clair are getting more negative comments about the activities of the ATA and the fact they are not meeting the major issues head-on. In his blog, Trucks, Trains and Traffic, Bob Murphy tells the pair they need to be spending their time in [...]

Speaking to the National Press Club last week Stuart St Clair laid out simply and clearly what the trucking industry needs from government into the future. He identified the problems facing trucking and the problems society as a whole will face, related to trucking. It was a well thought out list of demands but didn’t [...]

That great institution of Australian trucking, the Technical and Maintenance Conference organised by the ATA and ARTSA, jointly, is on the move. In the last fifteen or so years the conference has always been held at Moonee Valley Racecourse in Melbourne but this year there is a complete change of scenery moving out of the [...]

One of the truck industry’s gentlemen has been honoured by the Australian Trucking Association at their annual awards dinner on the Gold Coast when Ross McDonald of Cummins South Pacific recieved the 2009 Don Watson Memorial Award for lifetime achievement. He was presented the award by Noelene Watson, seen here with ATA Chairman Trevor Martyn.  

Safety has been given centre stage here at the ATA Convention. Most of the second day’s sessions have concentrated on the causes of accidents and how to prevent them. This is welcome return to first principles for the ATA driving home their core message of improving the performance of the industry. The ATA was built [...]

GeoTagged, [S34.02616, W151.12409] The Australian Trucking Association Convention is taking place this week on the Gold Coast. This is a chance for the industry to get its worries off its chest in these tough times. Attendance has held up quite well despite many transport operators suffering a significant downturn in business. If there are major [...]

The Australian Government is now able to fund truck rest areas on Australia’s major highways, with the passage of the AusLink (National Land Transport) Amendment Bill through Parliament.

The ATA say their Transport and Economics Committee will meet to plan an industry response to the Government’s new heavy vehicle charges legislation.

The ATA has argued the National Transport Commission (NTC) should stop work on its climate change strategy and focus on delivering transport industry reforms in a submission in response to the NTC’s discussion paper Freight Transport in a Carbon Constrained Economy.