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immediate access to relevant PBS networks

Immediate Access to Relevant PBS Networks

A new notice released by the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator is expected to provide eligible Tier 1 Performance Based Standards (PBS) vehicles with immediate access to relevant PBS networks across Australia to operate on approved networks without the need of a permit as soon as a Vehicle Approval is issued, although this may be at a restricted mass.
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supporting and sustaining industry growth

Supporting and Sustaining Industry Growth

National Heavy Vehicle Regulator CEO, Sal Petroccitto explains that NHVR’s role is to work together with the trucking industry, supporting and sustaining industry growth. It needs to do things differently, to deliver consistency and certainty for operators, drivers, and supply chain parties.
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they say knowledge is power

Fewer Unknown Unknowns

The announcement this week of some funding ($12.1 million) to improve road assessment of road assets in rural Australia is not a solution, it just means there will be a few fewer unknown unknowns.
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getting easier to get access these days

Getting Easier to Get Access These Days

“It seems to be getting easier to get access these days,” says Ken Beggs, who owns Beggs Bulk. “When I was trying to get into Victoria, they wanted an engineer’s swept path drawing, theoretical drawing, which doesn’t stand up in real life. I insisted with VicRoads that I would not get the drawings done, but I convinced them to let me do a road trial.
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NHVR is looking at the next chapter for PBS

NHVR is Looking at the Next Chapter for PBS 

The Performance Based Standards Scheme continues to go from strength to strength and now the NHVR is looking at the next chapter for PBS. In fact, it’s something Sal Petroccitto, National Heavy Vehicle Regulator CEO, says he and his team are incredibly proud of.
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will this be a victory for common sense?

Will This be a Victory for Common Sense?

The review of the new Heavy Vehicle National Law seems to have been going on forever, but when we finally see the draft law later this year or early next year, will this be a victory for common sense? Of course, there is also the possibility that it might be one of those Pyrrhic victories, the trucking industry has become used to.
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repeating the same mistakes

Repeating the Same Mistakes

I have been in the trucking industry for quite a long time and I am getting used to watching the industry, its representatives and those who control our destiny repeating the same mistakes which didn’t work last time or the time before. 
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has PBS delivered on its promise?

Has PBS Delivered on its Promise?

This week the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) announced the milestone of 10,000 innovative heavy vehicle combinations hitting Australian roads under the Performance Based Standards (PBS) scheme, but has PBS delivered on its promise?
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getting smart about mass

Getting Smart About Mass

New alternative solutions are now emerging, as the trucking industry and regulators start getting smart about mass. The issue around access and how trucking operators can confirm compliance with mass restrictions has always been a contentious one.
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Getting the trucks looking right

Getting the Trucks Looking Right

“Getting the trucks looking right was the plan from day one,” says Mick Colley, owner of Bedrock Quarry Products and Bulk Transport. “We sign wrote the first one and we started to get calls from that. I was talking to a sales manager at one of the big operators and they said they had seen my trucks everywhere. I said ‘oh yeah’, later they asked how many trucks I had, and told them ‘one’.
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