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Bigger Trucks * Australia - They are needed, but BITRE not sold
Stuart St Clair: “To deliver these products efficiently, we will need to be able to use safer trucks with greater capacity on more roads”
Sydney,NSW,Australia -Supply Chain, by Brad Gardner -September 30, 2010: -- The trucking lobby wants higher productivity vehicles to be given greater access to the road network despite a government department raising concerns about the trucks... The Australian Trucking Association (ATA) has used the latest road freight figures from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) to argue the case for super B-doubles and B-triples... According to the BITRE report, the overall road freight task will grow 2.67 percent per annum to almost double (1.8 times) between 2008 and 2030... The interstate task is expected to more than double (2.3 times) and capital city freight will grow 1.7 times over the same period... Super B-doubles are capable of carrying two 40 foot containers and ATA CEO, Stuart St Clair, says they can halve the number of truck trips and reduce the number of kilometres travelled by 25 percent... (Photo from wikipedia - Road Train2)
* TWU: Forget bigger trucks, higher wages a must
Canberra,Australia -Transport Workers Union National News, by Tony Sheldon/National Secretary -1 Oct 2010: -- TWU criticises focus on bigger trucks as freight task increases, saying drivers need better pay conditions... Mr Sheldon said... “Also growing at the same rate is the road toll. According to the NRMA, since 1989 there have been 3835 deaths in the road transport industry and over 300 people have been killed each year at the moment... This figure is rising at a rate much bigger than the freight task but it does not get the same attention from the big end of town. They just want bigger trucks... Every year we see a new report telling us this industry is growing at a rate that is greater than inflation... But while the costs associated with the industry are going up - the payments made by clients seem to be stagnant, with pressure building the further down the supply chain you go... We need to get to the root of this problem"... This week, the NSW Government’s Joint Standing Committee on Road Safety’s Report on Heavy Vehicle Safety, has acknowledged that economic pressures affects heavy vehicle safety, saying: “the question of adequate remuneration does raise workforce and safety issues which are a direct concern"... "We need safe rates now. The road toll can’t be allowed to grow with the industry,” ends Mr. Sheldon.
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