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TRUCKING INDUSTRY * WORLDWIDE
* Australia - Truckie loses appeal
Dangenong,VIC,Australia -The Dandenong Leader -12 May 2010: -- A Dandenong trucking operator has failed to overturn Australia’s first conviction for loading breaches under new legislation introduced in 2008... The company had faced multiple charges relating to exceeding the mass limit on a loader under new legislation in the Road Safety Act... Former National Australia Employment director, Bruno Strangio, had also been convicted in Dandenong Magistrates’ Court of breaching the requirement for packing a vehicle after a truck was loaded 65 per cent beyond capacity... A truck driver, who did not want to be named, had notified VicRoads of the loading breaches after leaving the depot. “Drivers have been forced to drive overloaded trucks on impossible schedules for too long,” he told Leader from Queensland... He said a truck overloaded to 60 per cent would make it very hard to stop in normal traffic, let alone in an emergency... The National Australia Employment has been dissolved as a company since the Magistrates’ Court matter... (Photo from 2.bp.blogspot.com: Australian Power Truck) 
* Russia - The Trucking Industry – Transit In Russia
Moscow,Russia -Changes That Help -14 May 2010: ... Services of cargo transportation in Russia are also more expensive than in other developed countries according to various reports in a half to two times, and fuel consumption – more than 30%. It is somewhat ironic because, as shown by a comparative analysis of cost structure of carriers in Russia and the EU as an example of a circular flight Russia – Germany, a kilometer from domestic carriers is almost one and a half times cheaper. And yet, according to the Association of International Road Carriers (AIH), the share of road transport services trade turnover of Russia is about 25%... A high proportion of risk when moving goods across the country hampers the development of international freight haulage on Russian transport corridors... Relentless statistics data on past accidents in Russia, malicious actions on transport shows that from year to year their number and the damage from them increase very much. At the same time their insurers are not thrilled to take the lead in transit: they prefer to take on cargo insurance from beginning to end. If the insurance company “leads” the consignment from the very beginning of the path, a situation may arise where it would have to be responsible for damage caused to the cargo before its “jurisdiction”... (Photo from englishrussia: Loaded on one Russia's roads) 
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