Two days prior to International Women’s Day the Queensland Trucking Association (QTA) will be holding a breakfast to celebrate the achievements of women within the trucking industry. March 6th is the date of the breakfast and the QTA has a line up of speakers to present at the event. There will be a panel featuring […]
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Temporary or casual workers are not new in Australia and they allow companies to expand and contract to fit the workflow that they are experiencing. According to Adecco, one of the leading Australian recruitment firms for casual labour, there is a growing trend in the transport and logistics area to utilise temporary workers in a
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In the recent safety blitz by NSW police hundreds of trucks were found to be non-compliant with police saying that there is a lot more work to be done to eradicate all of the rogue operators. Operation North Canuck, which was an initiative jointly, run by NSW Police and the Roads and Maritime Services gave
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A truck recently caught fire obstructing Sydney Harbour Tunnel and backing up traffic on both ends. The freightliner truck caught fire on Wednesday afternoon last week. The incident caused traffic to be diverted and the tunnel to be closed for hours in both directions. After the fire broke out from the truck’s battery, the driver
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The trucking industry has been joined in their push for changing to fuel based heavy vehicle charging by Katter’s Australian Party (KAP). On one hand the policy makers have said that they are interested in implementing a mass-distance-location pricing system for heavy vehicles, Ray Hopper the leader of KAP has said that charging based on
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According to Shams Rahman, a RMIT University Professor of Supply Chain Management, logistics executives neglect the fact that the efficiency of a supply chain is dependent on how both the internal and external relationships are managed. Professor Rahman will be spoke at the Chief Logistics Officer Summit 2013 held on the Gold Coast and reiterated
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Imagine if you could see around corners when you were driving, do you think that this would make driving on the roads safer? Well the Australian developers of a new technology that does just that hope that one day in the not too distant future all drivers will be able to detect another vehicle around
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It is the obligation of both the drivers and freight companies to ensure that trucks that are on Australian roads do not pose any risks to freight company employees as well as other road users. VicRoads ran a joint truck operation with Bendigo Police that exposed the high level of trucks on the road that
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The Australasian Convenience and Petroleum Marketers Association (ACAPMA) has called for the training of drivers transporting dangerous goods to be adjusted. They said that their reasoning is that there is evidence to show that there is a higher risk of an accident with drivers who are experienced with dangerous goods. Analysis of available data by
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According to the latest report from the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport there were 225 fatalities from 200 heavy vehicle accidents on Australian Roads for the 2011 – 2012 financial year. Parliamentary Secretary for Infrastructure and Transport, Catherine King, said that even though the number of accidents and fatalities was lower by 20 per cent
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Making heavy vehicles safer on the nations roads is in the best interest of all Australian road users. If you are driving long distances on open roads they can be intimidating in the best weather and downright scary when the weather is bad – especially when they are travelling at speed on highways. Will they
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Truck safety is always a concern and recently the Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum issued a safety bulletin to warn truck drivers about driving their vehicles with fitters still working underneath them. The summary of the hazard In the last 18 months there have been 3 reported incidents at open pits that involved
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