Delegates at the conference held on the Gold Coast last week were campaigning, learning and decarbonising with NatRoad, as the largest road transport industry association had a successful gathering.
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Time to Make the System Work as One
Warren Clark, NatRoad CEO looks back at the history of problems caused by our federal system, states have always been at odds with the federal government and vice versa and says it’s time to make the system work as one.
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Pound of Flesh from the Heavy Vehicle Industry
Warren Clark, CEO NatRoad has been thinking about fairness and the way governments of all stripes extract their pound of flesh from the heavy vehicle industry.
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No Pain, No Gain
NatRoad CEO, Warren Clark, takes us back to our youth, where we probably first heard the term ‘no pain, no gain’ from a coach.
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AI Isn’t About to Make Us All Jobless Just Yet
Warren Clark, NatRoad CEO is wondering whether artificial intelligence can do his job, instead of him, or your job, instead of you, but AI isn’t about to make us all jobless just yet.
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HVNL Debacle
The Infrastructure and Transport Ministers Meeting asked Ken Kanofski to undertake stakeholder consultation on the Heavy Vehicle National Law (the HVNL debacle), after the proposed reforms were roundly rejected by the trucking industry. He was tasked with finding a way through the process, which would enable some form of consensus to prevail.
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Potential Government Action
Labor Senator, Glenn Sterle, spoke at the NatRoad Conference held on the Gold Coast about potential government action over the next year or so. He represents Western Australia in the Senate and is also the Chair of the Senate Rural, Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee. He was a long distance truck driver, founding his own business operating road trains in regional Australia before being elected Senator for Western Australia in 2014.
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State of Play in the Trucking Industry
NatRoad CEO, Warren Clark, has been travelling around the country to understand the state of play in the trucking industry and writes about the experience.
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The Trucking Industry Runs on Personal Relations
The effect of the Covid pandemic was to almost eliminate the face to face and person to person contact, unless it was absolutely necessary, but the trucking industry runs on personal relations between players in the industry.
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Time to Crank Up The Action on Driver Shortages
NatRoad CEO, Warren Clark, discusses the issues around driver shortages for the the trucking industry and he reckons it’s time to crank up the action on driver shortages.
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