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CHARGES * Australia - The long-haul trucking industry is facing renewed calls to pay its way
As pressure mounts to get heavy vehicles carrying dangerous goods off the roads after a spate of fatal accidents
Sydney,NWS,Australia -The Sydney Morning Herald -8 Jan 2010: -- Industry body the Australasian Railway Association (ARA) is increasingly optimistic that treasury secretary Ken Henry's review of the tax system will recommend road-user charges to recover more of the money spent on building and maintaining roads. ARA chief executive, Brian Nye, yesterday said that smaller trucks were subsidising large B-double trucks and so-called road trains that commute on highways. By comparison, the New Zealand Government imposes road-user charges on diesel-powered heavy vehicles like trucks, while the Dutch Government announced last November that it would impose kilometre-based charges for all cars and heavy goods vehicles from 2012... (Photo by Wolter Peeters - Don't keep on truckin' ... a series of crashes has sparked calls to replace heavy vehicles with rail for transporting dangerous goods around the country)RISKS * Australia - Hidden cost of switching to rail
Sydney,NSW,Australia -The Coffs Coast Advocate, by Matt Deans -7 January 2010: -- Reducing the transport of dangerous goods, such as petrol on roads could save lives, but it's a move that would incur major costs for Mid North Coast industry and motorists... Calls that dangerous freight should be shifted to rail also prompted questions about the state of the North Coast rail line yesterday, as well as the future of the local trucking industry... Union spokesman Bob Nanva said one freight train could cart up to 60,000 litres of petrol, fuel, gas or chemicals replacing 150 semi-trailer trips and significantly reducing freight traffic... The Mid North Coast petroleum transport industry and the Australia Trucking Association yesterday called on the government to work with industry to improve road safety... “Petrol stations are located on roads, not on rail lines, so delivery by truck is the only way to get fuel to the outlets,” ATA’s NSW manager Jill Lewis said... Government audits show 76 per cent of all freight between Sydney and Brisbane is transported via road... (Picture by Bruce Thomas - Resident Barry Moon)Labels: trucking charges
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