Industry Issues

Faster Permits

Everyone in the trucking industry is looking for the permit system to work faster and more logically. This latest video from the people at the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator goes along with a case study
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Fatigue and Safety - Talking Turkey About Trucking

Where’s the Link?

Events in the NSW Courts this week are providing plenty of material for the general media’s ‘evil truckies driving monster trucks’ brigade. Watching the coverage in newspapers and on TV is like watching a car crash in slow motion, it gives you a sinking feeling and you know nothing good is going to come of it.
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Driver Fatigue Dispute Continues

Questions around handling fatigue under the Advanced Fatigue Management scheme look set to continue, with negative comments by an expert. The Australian Livestock and Rural Transporters Association has reacted angrily to recent comments made in the media by Professor Ann Williamson about the Livestock and Rural Transport Fatigue Management Scheme.
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Livestock Hotline Launched

The Australian Livestock and Rural Transporters Association and National Transport Insurance have launched LivestockASSIST. This is a 24 hour national hotline to coordinate emergency responses to incidents involving heavy vehicles carrying livestock.
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Fatigue and Safety - Talking Turkey About Trucking

Show Me The Money

How long will governments be able to get away with pulling the wool over our eyes? This week saw the Deputy Prime Minister, who is also Minister for Infrastructure etc, Warren Truss, announce a program
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Diary Extension For Now

The extension of an exemption to Work Diary rules has been announced by the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator. Currently, the National Work Diary Exemption is for all those working within 100 km of their
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Parking Up Trailers

The latest vehicle registration figures show the trucking industry continuing to park up assets and deregistering them. The numbers for the fourth quarter of 2015 were published this week by the Australian Road Transport Suppliers Association and confirm what many in the industry have seen anecdotally, many sectors are very quiet.
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Small Steps

Another small step on the road to a real national roadside enforcement regime took place this week. In the Australian Capital Territory the first of a number of demonstrations took place which should confirm
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Surprise Move on Contract Drivers

The week before Christmas was chosen as the time to announce a major shift in the way driver rates are set. At 4.20 pm on Friday December 18, the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal announced its latest order, this time minimum payments for contract drivers.
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Fatigue and Safety - Talking Turkey About Trucking

It Begins Again

Happy New Year to all our readers from dieselnews.com.au. Let’s hope it’s a good one and a number of promising developments from 2015 come to fruition. Over the last five years, a lot of promises were made, which didn’t come off. Now, the promises are a bit more believable, and seem to come with realistic deadlines. If there is one week of the year when we can allow ourselves to be hopeful and positive, it is the first week of a fresh year. It is also a week in which it is very unlikely any major setback for the trucking industry will rear its ugly head. This is mainly because all of the politicians and bureaucrats are going to be at the beach until Australia Day.
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