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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 [...]

Turning the tables on the regulators is all part of the strategy, being used by Philip Halton, Executive Director of the Australian Livestock Transporters Association, to try and get some action from the National Transport Commission in sorting out the dog’s breakfast which is the most recent fatigue management regulations. In his weekly newsletter to [...]

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 [...]

The chances of Australia getting a sensible and pragmatic electronic work diary system are lengthening fast with the publication of a submission by the New South Wales Road Traffic Authority to the National Transport Commission. In reply to the draft position paper on Electronic Systems for Heavy Vehicle Driver Fatigue and Speed Compliance, the RTA [...]

The latest position paper from the National Transport Commission seemsto have stirred up some ill feeling and looks about to stir up anotherroad versus rail debate. Do we really need to go through another railcan do this while road transport can do this type of discussion? Those days should have disappeared into the dim and [...]

The latest release from the National Transport Commission looks likely to stir up some feeling in the road transport sector with its clear indication of increased investment in the rail sector without taking into account the most productive form of transport, road, as a nalternative. In his column, commentator on all things transport here in [...]

Some semblance of common sense appears to be rearing its head in the regulation of fatigue in Australia. The debacle caused by the late announcement of the new Fatigue Regulations in the lead up to their implementation last September has left many operators struggling to cope in the new compliance environment. Luckily, for many operators [...]

The long dog from Volvo is the first ‘blueprint’ PBS vehicle on the road and it’s been a long time coming. By going to 19.6 metres in length the new combination meets the standards specified for Performance Based Standards (PBS) and gets a GCM of 50.3 tonnes on general access routes and 55 tonnes on [...]

It would be unjust to describe the redesign of the National Transport Commission’s website as a  case of rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic, but there is a hint of the repackaging of the same old stuff and disguising the glacial movement in transport industry reform.

The National Transport Commission (NTC) has announced their welcome for the commencement of new heavy vehicle driver fatigue laws in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.