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The ATA have published a useful guide spelling out the fuel price issues as they currently stand and outlining some of the major bones of contention.

The Australian Trucking Association says it does not support the trucking industry shutdowns that some people are proposing for the two weeks from 28 July 2008.

Nominations are now open for the 2008 Apprentice of the Year Awards. The Awards are open to apprentices of CVIAQ member companies and their Queensland based branches that have or will be finalising their formal training in 2008. See the video here.

The AustRoads Freight Program is conducting a survey on possible additional national access conditions for vehicles under Performance Based Standards and other high productivity vehicles.

With the next series of EPA regulations quickly approaching for the US truck market, Daimler Trucks North America has begun explaining why it will use SCR on its Detroit Diesel engines.

A former manager of a small trucking business in Coffs Harbour, NSW, has been sentenced to weekend detention (with 12 months to serve) in the Newcastle District Court after pleading guilty to fuel excise fraud of almost $70,000.

Fallout from the Caterpillar/Navistar deal continues with an announcement by Freightliner concerning the return of Cummins as an engine supplier in the US. Freightliner have only offered Detroit or Cat in heavy duty for the last five years on their domestic market.

Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, Anthony Albanese, this week released the Australian Transport Statistics 2008 pocket guide as part of the 8th Annual Transport Colloquium held in Canberra.

The fallout from Caterpillar’s decision to get out of the highway truck engine market in the US after 2010 has started to reverberate around the North American truck engine makers world.

The ATA has agreed in-principle to support the proposed national regulation, registration and licensing system for heavy vehicles.