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Mar 20, 2012

TRUCKING INDUSTRY * Australia

* Australians tackle detention time, trucker pay as safety issues

(Video from Youtube, by kenworthaus -23 Dec 2009: National Roadtrain Link -NRL- International Eagle Triple Road-Train pulls out of the Inglis Road-Train Terminal on Old Tarcoola Road at Port Augusta loaded for Coles in Alice Springs)
Canberra,Australia -Land Line (USA), by David Tanner -19 March 2012:   -- The Australian government is working on reforms that will hold the entire supply chain accountable for safety and compliance in the trucking industry. The plan would make sure truckers are paid for detention time and discourage shippers from pressuring drivers to run non-compliant... The Road Safety Remuneration Bill, which passed the Australian House of Representatives on Monday, March 19, would form an industrial tribunal to set detention rates, resolve disputes and hand down penalties. The bill has likely support from the Senate according to people close to the issue... Truckers welcome the change in the detention policy !!!


* Australia - To Consider Bill Removing Shipping Tax


Canberra,ACT, Australia -The Journal of Commerce Online (USA), by Peter T. Leach -Mar 23, 2012: -- Australia’s government will introduce legislation in the lower house of Parliament Friday to remove a tax on domestic shipping companies in an effort to counter a 40 percent decline in the nation’s fleet in the past decade... The legislation, a package of five bills, won’t prevent overseas companies from operating in Australia’s coastal trades, Transport Minister, Anthony Albanese, told Bloomberg... The fleet in Australia, which moves about 99.9 percent of trade by ships, has an average age of almost 20 years compared with a global average of 12 years, according to government figures...


* STAY VIGILANT ON CHEMICAL SECURITY

Sydney,NSW,Australia -ATA FRIDAY FACTS -23 March, 2012: -- Every day, the trucking industry transports innocuous household chemicals around Australia. However, in the wrong hands, things like hairdressing supplies, fertilisers and water treatment materials can turn deadly as the beginning materials for homemade terrorist bombs, such as those used in Oslo in 2012 and London in 2005... On Thursday 8 March, the Attorney-General’s Department hosted an explosives demonstration run by the AFP’s Bomb Data Centre for stakeholders to show them firsthand the potential destructive power of the chemicals they sell, use or transport, and the importance of ensuring that all chemicals are stored securely and only provided to authorised personnel... The demonstrations showed the damage that can be caused by chemicals in a variety of scenarios. For example, a 1kg mixture of a sodium chlorate based home-made bomb was enough to incinerate a car (left)... Trucking operators can routinely help protect Australia from terrorist activity by ensuring that the chemicals they transport cannot be accessed by an unauthorised party...

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