The National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) has officially released its new Heavy Vehicle Productivity Plan (HVPP) for 2025 through to 2030.
The plan outlines 22 actions over five years and focuses on challenges impacting the trucking landscape into the future, defining contemporary issues impacting Australia’s heavy vehicle industry.
These challenges addressed in the productivity plan include growth in the freight task, road fatalities, environmental and health impacts, the shift from asset management to optimisation and the increased frequency of unplanned supply chain disruptions.
The HVPP outlines the NHVR’s plans to address all of these challenges, with an annual implementation plan to support it in providing more specific detail on actions and priorities of each year moving forward.
“The new HVPP represents a modern take on heavy vehicle productivity, reflecting the NHVR and our partners’ attitude that it has the potential to save lives, reduce carbon emissions and prolong the life of our roads and structures,” the NHVR says.
The new plan, available to access here, doesn’t cover its full work program. Instead, 22 actions have been set out over a five-year period based on stakeholder priorities to tackle freight challenges.
The plan’s main goals are to protect and enhance the productivity and resilience of heavy vehicle operations, achieve zero deaths and serious injuries on roads by 2050 and reach net zero emissions by 2050.
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