The National Heavy Vehicle Regulator has laid out its intentions over the next few years. NHVR has published its three-year Corporate Plan outlining its reform agenda for the heavy vehicle industry.
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National Standard Next Week
From July 1, the National Heavy Vehicle Inspection Manual (NHVIM) Version 2.1 will be the national standard for heavy vehicle inspections in all participating jurisdictions. For many this will mean some minor adjustments to procedures to ensure trucks comply.
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Permit Portal Preview
The National Heavy Vehicle Regulator has unveiled details of its customer portal for access permits, in advance of a full national roll-out in the coming months. The new web portal, to be known as AccessCONNECT,
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Feedback on New Oversize Notices Needed
The National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) is looking for industry feedback on a number of upcoming Notices for heavy haulage operations. According to the NHVR, these new notices will have major benefits
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Setting The Standard
We have a arrived at a fortunate moment in the development of a truly responsible trucking industry. There is an opportunity to make a real difference and change the paradigm in the way road transport is run and policed. Get it wrong and we will return to the dark ages, get it right and there can be some real gains.
The situation at the moment sees the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator with enough credibility with the Transport Ministers in the States and Canberra to be able to try and drive some real effective change. It has the momentum, for now, to get some of the recalcitrant states and their delaying tactics, put back in their box.
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Future Fatigue Policy
The National Transport Commission is co-ordinating a project to pull in major data about the effect of fatigue in the trucking industry. The plan is to develop a national framework for collecting real-life operational data to better inform future fatigue policy.
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Election Fever?
Looking down the barrel of a long election campaign for the next seven weeks is not going to excite the trucking industry. We have had our moment in the sun, over the RSRT in April, and trucking industry
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Permitless PBS Truck and Dogs
An announcement by the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator will mean operators running many of the PBS truck and dog combinations will no longer need permits. The NHVR released Australia’s first gazette
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Trucks Will Fail Brake Test
It is another of those unseen problems which keep on creeping up on us. This time it is a change in brake testing rules, which no-one is ready for. Changes to the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator roller brake testing rules will be coming on June 11 and the consequences are far from clear.
What we have is a situation which keeps on popping up with alarming regularity. A rule change which is being used by one part of the way the trucking industry is regulated to cause mischief. Using non-communication in advance of a rule change to cause havoc in the industry, to advance a self serving point of view.
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Making Corporates and Directors Liable
A submission by the Australian Trucking Association has called for corporate officers and directors to be personally liable under the Heavy Vehicle National Law for exercising due diligence. The submission to the National Transport Commission’s executive officer liability review is aimed at making these officers liable in any failure to prevent 34 specific safety critical offences.
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