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Pricing - Australia - Trucks may carry heavier cost burden
Australia -The Australian, by Katharine Murphy -Feb 24, 2006: -- Trucking companies could pay more to shift goods around the country following a Productivity Commission review into how to cope with a dramatic increase in traffic in the next two decades... The amount of freight carried on Australia's road and rail networks is forecast to double between now and 2020. By then, one in four vehicles on our roads will be a truck or a light commercial vehicle as companies shift freight off the rails... The review will consider whether transport pricing should move from uniform charges, like standard road tolls, to a more flexible system that would take into account factors such as the type of vehicle, where the road is located and the time of day...
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