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* Australia - TRUCKING INDUSTRY: Closer to paid waiting time
* ACT - Trucking industry closer to achieving paid waiting time
* ACT - Amid the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal, D’Ath blasts Coalition during TWU protest against Coles
(Video by Geoff Mackley -Dec 11, 2012: -- Spectacular footage of road trains in the Australian outback, all footage shot in the area of Marble Bar, Warrawagine and Nullagine, Western Australia)
Canberra,ACT,Australia -ATN, by Brad Gardner -July 18, 2013: -- A federal Labor MP has blasted the Coalition over its desire to review the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal (RSRT), amid another Transport Workers Union (TWU) protest against Coles Supermarkets... Opening up a new front in the election battleground today, Labor MP Yvette D’Ath pointed to the Coalition as the party that wanted to destroy a tribunal charged with lifting safety standards in the trucking industry. Labor introduced the RSRT last year, and D'Ath today signed a document pledging to support the tribunal... Opposition Leader Tony Abbott earlier this year released a document declaring a Coalition government would “urgently review” the RSRT and that there was no evidence the tribunal was necessary to address safety and remuneration issues... The TWU’s most recent survey of truck drivers, released in April this year, found that 73 percent of respondents carting freight for Coles pointed to retail as the major cause of dangerous pressures on the trucking industry... Coles dismissed the survey as a “push poll” and rejected as “baseless” the TWU’s accusations that the supermarket chain was undermining safety standards. It says it has never been investigated or prosecuted for any chain of responsibility breaches...
* ACT - Trucking urged to focus on cost recovery under ETS
* Victoria - VicRoads extends west Melbourne restrictions
Melbourne,VIC,Australia -ATN, by Ruza Zivkusic-Aftasi -July 18, 2013: -- With almost 350 truck drivers served with infringement notices in Melbourne’s west in the past three years, VicRoads has amended truck curfews and will soon enforce the changes... Truck restrictions will be extended in Yarraville on Douglas Parade and south of the West Gate Freeway, with some adjustments made to the location of curfew signage on the western end of Francis Street in a bid to reduce truck traffic between Roberts Street and Hyde Street... VicRoads has been educating the industry on the second stage of a campaign involving engineering, education and enforcement responses, its Regional Director for the north-west metropolitan region Patricia Liew says... VicRoads will also be undertaking enforcement blitzes – one every week for three months, underpinning the changes...
* ACT - Regulator warns of 'great variability' in telematics standards
Canberra,ACT,Australia -ATN, by Steve Skinner -July 15, 2013: -- Transport Certification Australia is warning trucking operators that not all telematics units are the same... TCA General Manager for Strategic Development Gavin Hill says there is great variability in the standards of both hardware and back-up service... He says systems of “questionable” quality have become evident in the entry options scheme for the Intelligent Access Program (IAP), where operators can ask the TCA to assess their existing telematics hardware free of charge... TCA was set up by government to regulate the telematics technology and related services. Telematics is the capture, transmission and remote storage of truck and trailer data... Separate to this have been guidelines for how to measure speed accurately through GPS-based systems (intelligent speed management or ISM), and more recently ticks of approval or otherwise for on-board mass units... The TCA recently announced a group of industry representatives would be established to help with all the benchmarking by advising its technical experts...
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