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Trust the Kiwis to get it right without costing an arm and a leg. This shot is of a new combination being used on the roads of New Zealand. The authorities there have taken a pragmatic approach to getting higher productivity trucks on the road without compromising the infrastructure and without costing operators millions of [...]

TRUCKING IN SOUTH AFRICA, originally uploaded by Claude BARUTEL. A recent checking campaign on truckies in South Africa has thrown up some results which would be completely unthinkable here in Australia. The event, organised by the influential South African trucking industry magazine Fleetwatch, saw a day of information and lectures for traffic enforcement police officers [...]

This week the Performance Based Standards (PBS) scheme got a shot in the arm with the unveiling of three A-double combinations at O’Phee’s Trailers in Brisbane. They will run at 79 tonnes and 30 metres long hauling two 25 tonne containers at a time from Toowoomba on the Great Dividing Range down to the port [...]

The Victorian Government are wanting to get good publicity out of the fact work is starting on dualling the Western Highway from Ballarat to Stawell but manage to put the trucking industry offside and create problems for themselves in Melbourne at the same time. Are they spinning themselves into trouble? By using some statistics about [...]

Submissions are being made to the National Transport Commission in response to their Performance Based Standards Regulatory Impact Statement (PBSRIS). While the submissions are considered and do bring up important points needed to be considered in the improvement of the PBS system as it now stands, there is one crucial change without which the whole [...]

Here’s a video being put out by the Victoria government trying to cut down on the incidence of rollovers on the highway. This appears to have been stimulated by the laudable work done by the Victorian Road Freight Advisory Council who have set up a number of initiatives to improve truck safety. VicRoads are going [...]

Tax reform is now on the agenda, big-time. With the release of the Henry Report in the last few days all the headlines have been grabbed by the proposed changes to the way the resources industry will be taxed. As to the way in which the plans for a future tax system will affect road [...]

The decision by the Australian Transport Council to award the hosting of the National Transport Regulator to Queensland has been welcomed with relief by the trucking industry. The main reason for the relief is the fact the gig didn’t go to New South Wales and Australian trucking has avoided the nightmare scenario. Although the new [...]

The music is very soothing and the graphics look great but this new traffic plan for Melbourne is most likely to send the trucking industry into paroxysms of rage. Once they start talking about improved benefit for communities it only means one thing in the public mind, truck bans! more about “SmartRoads?“, posted with vodpod

The Leader of of the Opposition, Tony Abbott, has had a close call on the Princes Highway west of Melbourne. His car was nearly wiped out by a jack-knifing truck braking hard and trying to avoid hitting his car and a bus veering out the way of his stationary car in the central lane of the highway. He was attending [...]