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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 [...]

Charging over the horizon http://cdn-2-service.phanfare.com/images/external/4957656_2859724_51048390_Full_3/0_0_ce32b059a1e97128d86b3376a1df82b5_1The truck industry may soon see the resurrected issue of mass/distance charging raise its head as the government look at changes in the way they regulate the trucking industry to be followed by a change in the way they tax trucking. A number of meetings are being held in the next [...]

Triple the task Our Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has been talking up improvements in the freight transport sector in the last couple of weeks and says the transport priority for the Council of Australian Governments this year will be road transport. http://cdn-2-service.phanfare.com/images/external/4957656_4518398_91887037_Full_3/0_0_3dfe6d2746bc713836c28df5e429c22a_1 In a speech in Adelaide he quoted a report by Infrastructure Partnerships Australia, [...]

Here is a prime example of how the three tier government system in Australia is holding back a transport industry wanting to improve efficiency and outcomes. This New Zealand combination featured on the Big Lorry Blog is on the road and getting the job done while the same concept in Australia is sitting rotting in [...]

more about “B-doubles in the UK“, posted with vodpod The UK is under pressure to introduce high productivity vehicles onto their highly congested roads. This is part of a report from the BBC giving a balanced account of the arguments for and against longer trucks. Compare this report to the kind of scare mongering rubbish [...]

There seems to be increasing support for the idea of a national road transport regulator with Minister Albanese coming out strongly in favour of the plan in Parliament this week. It would appear the job of being a national heavy truck regulator will be taken by one of the state regulatory bodies and enforced around [...]

Finally, business is starting to wake up to the problem of infrastructure stifling freight task growth. A report in today’s Australian talks about the Business Council of Australia putting pressure on government to boost spending to specifically relieve pressure in vital areas. Avoiding port bottlenecks, city congestion and bad freight systems are top of the [...]

Is this stretch of the Pacific Highway set to become the last bottleneck on the road from Brisbane to Sydney? This is Grafton and the highway passes through South Grafton where there is a wide range of servos, truckstops and fast food outlets serving trucks and travllers on the Pacific. Progress is being made to [...]