In the same way the real estate agent will talk about location, location, location, anyone talking about the best future for the trucking industry has to talk about training, training, training. The industry
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Risk Benefit Analysis
Any sane person doing a risk benefit analysis of truck driving would refuse to contemplate the idea without a very high salary on offer. However, there are plenty of people willing and able to drive trucks
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Less Change, To Get More Change
Listening to our Federal Minister, Darren Chester, when he departed from his prepared script, talking to the ALC Forum dinner guests in Melbourne, he made a point about needing less change, to get more
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Road Versus Rail
The trucking industry has always had a problematic relationship with the railway industry, or more specifically, the rail freight industry as road versus rail tensions continue. A lot of this is historical,
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Hitting the Right Target
The stats prove we are not talking to the people we need to communicate with, trucking needs to make sure it’s safety message is hitting the right target audience. Actually, it’s not just trucking, there is a need for everyone concerned with safety to reach the demographic, which is the main issue.
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Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
We often have to sit and listen to the powers that be telling us how committed they are on safety, our reaction is often something like, ‘put your money where your mouth is’. Well, this week someone
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Playing Political Games With Safety
Here we go again, just as happened last year, we have interest groups playing political games with safety. What is going to be lost from sight during the ongoing row and smokescreen? Actual safety on
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Who’s Who in the Zoo?
The announcement this week by the National Transport Commission of a plan to develop a regular report into what is happening inside the road transport industry reminds us just how we don’t know who’s
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Working Together For Mutual Benefit
When you talk to trucking operators who work in rural areas, they have a completely different attitude to competition than their counterparts in the big city, it’s all about working together for
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Tackling the Big Issues
Here we are at the beginning of a New Year and we need to think about tackling the big issues, once again. It’s time to take stock and prepare to fight the good fight to keep the right agenda on the
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