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The procedure being adopted by the New South Wales Road Traffic Authority when putting demerit points on truck drivers licenses is seen by many to be unfair and unwarranted. This lack of understanding on the part of the RTA is causing much heartache among truck drivers and concern that they may lose their licences as [...]

In many ways, we would often think of the livestock transport industry as being an old fashioned, conservative and unchanging sector of the road transport industry. From the outside they would seem to be the last people to take on new challenges and try to extend the envelope of business performance. In fact, the livestock [...]

Watching another roadside interview with a truck driver Oztruckintv brings home the ongoing problems for the road transport industry here in Australia very strongly. This particular owner driver called Mal has been doing the right thing and struggling hard to keep his truck on the road for many years and as he is interviewed it [...]

The National Transport Commission have just released a draft position paper where they set out some ideas for the development of an electronic work diary to replace the current hand written book introduced late last year. Let’s hope they have learned the lessons of the introduction of the Intelligent Access Program and look for a [...]

Two separate surveys released in recent months appear to contradict each other with the results contrasting strongly in terms of the pressure trucking people are under when going about their work.

Fatigue issues hamstring operators Inconsistent fatigue rules introduced in a mish-mash of forms and then delayed because neither the authorities or the operators had been correctly informed or prepared are causing consternation in the transport industry.

DECA Training, has announced new training aimed squarely at tackling one of the industry’s major and potentially fatal issues, driver fatigue.

ATA NSW say they fear trucking operators in NSW will be left helpless when the new fatigue management regulations come into operation on September 29th if road agencies do not work to address the inadequate number of rest areas on NSW highways.