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TRUCKING INDUSTRY NEWS * Australia - Urges NSW govt to overhaul HML
Sydney,NSW,Australia -Road Freight -23 June 2009: -- Less than two weeks before the implementation of the Intelligent Access Program, NSW is being told to overhaul its higher mass limits regime or face the prospect of trucking companies fleeing the IAP... The trucking industry said the current process of denying access to detailed HML maps until a trucking company has enrolled in IAP is counter-productive and must change... Truckers have complained the Government’s decision to withhold HML maps means there is no certainty as to where a vehicle can travel... Troy Heavy Haulage Operations Manager, Allen Penberton, said the company has no plans to enrol in IAP for this reason and said it refuses to spend money to install GPS in their trucks only to find out they are unable to go to certain locations... Pendlebury has backed the claim from the Victorian Transport Association (VTA) that only 88 of the 585 trucks pre-enrolled in IAP in NSW would be enrolled by 1 July 2009 due to uncertainty over HML access...* Cold carrier hot for Hino
Brisbane,QNLD,AUST -ATN -6 July 2009: -- Cold freight expert Queensland Frozen Food Services is the latest carrier to take delivery of Hino’s new 500 Series medium duty trucks, with six GH 1727 models joining its fleet... The new models feature a 190kw common-rail fuel injection turbo diesel engine, as well as ABS brakes, cruise control and hill start assist, with a choice of three transmissions, a six-speed manual, nine-speed manual and also an Allison automatic... A GVM of 16 tonnes, as well as a GCM of 32 tonnes gives operators plenty of versatility when it comes to configuring the truck for urban or regional work... (Image from 1.bp.blogspot.com: Hino's 500 Series medium-duty truck)
* ABS report reveals halved energy intensity in transport sector
Canberra,Australia -Road Transport -6 July 2009: -- Recent figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) have unveiled that the use of more efficient engines has halved the transport sector’s energy intensity over the last thirty years... According to the figures, the transport sector’s energy intensity fell by 49 per cent from 1976-77 to 2006-07... The ABS reported that transport attained significantly greater declines in energy intensity than other industries... It said this result is expected given that transport operating costs are dominated by fuel costs, and the end of very low fuel prices in Australia in the late 1970s provided the impetus for the adoption of more efficient engines which, in turn, contributed to lower fuel intensity... Energy intensity is a measure of the energy used to produce one unit of economic output. A decrease in energy intensity means the industry’s contribution to the economy is growing faster than its use of fuel...Labels: trucking industry news Australia
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