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TRUCKING INDUSTRY NEWS * Australia
* ACT - Truckers renew calls for larger trucks, review of registration charges
(Photo: A Linfox's B-double haulier) Canberra,ACT,Australia -Transport and Logistic News, by Charles Pauka -April 4, 2013: -- The existing road funding and planning system is broken, despite the serious efforts of the Australian Government to fix it, the chairman of the Australian Trucking Association, David Simon, said today... In a televised address, Mr Simon congratulated the current government and its Infrastructure Minister, Anthony Albanese, for establishing the NHVR, Infrastructure Australia and consulting effectively with industry... Mr Simon said, the amount of freight on Australia’s roads was projected to double by 2030, as our economy and population continue to grow. To deliver a thousand tonnes of freight, you would need 770 of the light trucks you can drive with a car licence, 42 semitrailers – or 20 B-triples... Mr Simon said Australia’s governments were looking at a new road charging and investment system, with mass-distance-location pricing the favoured option...
* ACT - Stop the carbon tax on trucks
Canberra,ACT,Australia -ATA Friday Facts -5 April 2013: -- ATA Chairman, David Simon, has called on the Government to make an election commitment not to extend the carbon tax to trucking... David made the call in his televised address at the National Press Club this week: “That’s a 27 per cent tax hike. It would cost the industry more than half a billion dollars a year” ... David said that trucking operators only had limited opportunities to reduce their energy use. He said alternatives such as biodiesel blends were rarely available, while LNG was not feasible for long distance operations... And with more than 70 per cent of trucking businesses owning just one truck, he said many in the industry would not have the ability to pass the carbon price onto their customers... David rejected the environmental movement’s argument that fuel tax credits are a subsidy...
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