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TRUCKING INDUSTRY * Australia
* ACT - Truckies to have a voice on road charging board
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Canberra,ACT,Australia -Transport and Logistics News, by Charles Pauka -November 13, 2012: -- The trucking industry will have a say in how it will be taxed, after Australia’s Transport ministers decided to appoint an industry representative to the board of Heavy Vehicle Charging and Investment Reform (HVCI)... The HVCI project, aims to develop a new system for charging the trucking industry for its use of the roads, as well as helping governments make better decisions about road funding... Chairman of the Australian Trucking Association, David Simon, said the decision recognised that the trucking industry should be involved in designing the new charging and investment system...
* Victoria - Protest over trucks to block bridge
Melbourne,VIC,Australia -The Age, by Adam Carey -November 14, 2012: -- A planned blockade of one of Melbourne's main truck routes by local activists sick of neighbourhood truck traffic has turned spiteful. A trucking industry heavyweight is threatening to sue the protesters and the industry body is calling for police to shut down the rally. Residents of Melbourne's inner west will occupy busy Shepherd Bridge on Footscray Road for half an hour on November 27 - the date of the Baillieu government's second anniversary - blocking a key route to the port and CBD in the morning peak. A big band and giant puppets will join the protest... The group wants to see the return of the stalled $380 million truck action plan, which was designed to get trucks off residential streets by building off-ramps from the West Gate Freeway to Hyde Street in Yarraville. The government has frozen the plan - a project of the former Brumby government - in favour of the proposed 18-kilometre east-west link from the Western Ring Road to the Eastern Freeway... At least 10,000 trucks use Francis Street and Somerville Road each day, and hundreds at night, when curfews exist...
* Western Australia - Union: Coles pressure on truckies deadly
Perth,W.A.,Australia -AAP/News.com -November 14, 2012: -- A Transport Union which says Coles risks lives by pressuring truck drivers to meet tight deadlines is staging protests aimed at the supermarket giant's shareholders as well as customers... Transport Workers' Union (TWU) members turned out for a small protest near a Sydney CBD Coles store on Wednesday, ahead of the annual general meeting of Wesfarmers, the owner of Coles, in Perth... Acting TWU national secretary, Michael Kaine, said 330 people died in Australian truck crashes each year... A TWU report found 80 per cent of surveyed truck drivers carrying freight for Coles believed pressure from the company led to unsafe on-road practices. Half said they had been forced to delay vehicle maintenance... In a statement, the company said only 35 deaths involving trucks in 2011 were related to the food and liquor industry, and none of these involved deliveries to Coles...
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