As we work our way into the reality of 2022 and the last of the summer holidays are behind us, the trucking industry is looking for light at the end of the tunnel.
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Making the Hard Decisions
The long term fallout from the current pandemic crisis is likely to be an increase in the mental health problems the trucking industry suffers from, where everyday workers in the industry are making the hard decisions.
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It’s Like Deja Vu All Over Again
As we prepare to enter into the third year of this ongoing pandemic crisis, we can look back to the start of the whole crazy business and it’s like deja vu all over again.
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Another Crazy Year
It’s well into December and Christmas is fast approaching, as we are coming towards the end of another crazy year, and the big problems just seem to keep on coming.
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Don’t Panic, Yet, About AdBlue
It’s hard to work out exactly what’s going on, but the message seems to be ‘don’t panic, yet, about AdBlue’. There seems to be a distinct lack of hard facts and a lot of supposition going around.
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Working in an Invisible Industry
There are a couple of articles on PowerTorque this week around a similar theme, and that is one we return to again and again, it’s all about working in an invisible industry. The only time the trucking industry becomes visible is when something goes wrong, the news is nearly always bad, when it’s about trucking.
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The Maddest Time of the Year
As we all know in the trucking industry that we are now in the maddest time of the year, with the ramp up to Christmas inflating the freight task in order for all of those customers with extra money in their pocket to buy more stuff they don’t need before Christmas.
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Hesitancy, Misinformation and Some Difficult Decisions
Thinking about the future of the trucking industry is never easy, but, at the moment, we are at a point where hesitancy, misinformation and some difficult decisions are all at play. The decisions? I am not talking about vaccinations or Covid, the decision is around which way to go ahead in choosing technology in trucks over the next decade.
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There’s Good News and There’s Bad News
There is some progress being made in the inevitable move across from the use of fossil fuels in road transport, but as is always the case in Australia, there’s good news and there’s bad news. The feasibility
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Unpalatable Reforms Will Return to the Agenda
So the reduced hours for truck drivers has been put back in the box for now, but you can be sure that unpalatable reforms will return to the agenda, in the years to come, for the trucking industry.
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