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BIG-TRUCKS TRIAL * Australia
* Australia - Industry gave big-truck trial a wide berth
Melbourne,Victoria,Australia -The Age, by Adam Carey -June 10, 2013: -- A two-year trial to assess the impact of bigger, heavier trucks on Victoria's roads produced almost no useful data on their effect around Melbourne, because the only truck operator that participated soon quit as the trial conditions were too onerous... Nevertheless, the state government announced in April that 30-metre B-double trucks and larger 36.5-metre B-triples would be free to operate on most of Melbourne's freeways and tollways, in a transport policy shift it dubbed "moving more with less"... Documents obtained using freedom-of-information laws reveal VicRoads' two-year trial of bigger freight trucks, from 2009 to 2011, was heavily compromised by a lack of participation by an industry unhappy with restrictions on mass limits, and by travel bans on some suburban roads and during peak hour... In a 2012 report to VicRoads, transport consultant Rob Di Cristoforo wrote that just one Melbourne transport operator joined the trial... The report noted that allowing heavier trucks on those roads would require strengthening or even demolishing and rebuilding some older bridges... Residents in the inner west would now confront larger trucks on local roads as those trucks completed the ''last mile'' of their journeys, she said...
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