Opinion

Technology Marches On

The trucking industry changes very quickly, as technology marches on, higher and higher. Ask anyone working in trucking about the biggest changes in their career and they would all be technology related.
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Engage, Engage, Engage!

There’s a lot going on in the regulation and legislation space in the next few years and the trucking industry will need to heed the clarion call to Engage, Engage, Engage! Unless, of course, we want to repeat the mistakes of the past and carry on the way we have for the past forty years.
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Get Smart

Just like the 1960s TV comedy created by Mel Brooks, the trucking industry need to ‘Get Smart’ about the media and its dealings with our industry and its people. There are plenty of agendas out there,
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A New Perspective on Trucking

Sometimes we are too close to our own industry – we need a new perspective on trucking. In its submission to the Inquiry into National Freight and Supply Chain Priorities, the Australian Logistics Council (ALC) has come up with an interesting comparison. It is looking at the freight industry from the consumer’s point of view, in the same way as it perceives the energy industry.
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Second-Class Tax System

Yet again the trucking industry is the victim of our second-class tax system, after the Australian Tax Office (ATO) messed it up again. Unfortunately, this unfair decision on driver expenses is merely
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Education, Education, Education

If we want safer roads and a safer trucking industry, it’s all about education, education, education. There is a massive gap in understanding between those involved with trucks and those outside our
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Throwing Out the Baby

The well-worn expression telling us to avoid throwing the baby out with the bath water has never been more relevant to the trucking industry than it is today. We have moved into the 21st century, and the
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Many Lost Voices

Quite often in these columns, Diesel News is trying to speak for the many lost voices in the trucking industry. There is an issue of representation in the industry which needs to be addressed, but is unlikely
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Sensible Car Drivers?

Is it too much to ask for the trucking industry to be able to deal with sensible car drivers? The biggest risk to safety on our highways is those people driving cars. They are the least observant, most likely to speed and prone to fatigue-related crashes, especially around holiday time. Car drivers are the bane of the truckie’s life, lacking any kind of consideration for truck drivers and manoeuvring dangerously around them. If there is one thing we need to fix to improve road safety it is the standard of car driving. The biggest problem is the lack of knowledge in the car driving community about trucks, the way they perform and what they can and cannot do. Car drivers tend to exhibit fear around trucks and will tend to panic if the truck does anything they don’t understand.
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This Is The Modern World

We may like to indulge in nostalgia in the trucking world, but this is the modern world we are talking about. Sometimes it is difficult to separate the real facts from the myths and legends in this industry.   What
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