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Jul 4, 2013

TRUCKING INDUSTRY * Australia & New Zealand

* Australia - Regulation crimps trucking productivity gains 

(Photo: Rob Homer - Critics of trucking industry regulation suggest new regulations have eaten away the benefits delivered by improvements over the past two decades to technology and innovation) 
Canberra,ACT,Australia -Financial Review, by Andrew Birmingham -2 Jul 2013: -- While the trucking industry has embraced many imposed changes such as cleaner but more expensive fuel, new government proposals around mass-distance-location pricing threaten to create new charges reaching half a billion dollars for the sector ...  According to a discussion paper published by the Australian Trucking Association in the run-up to the election: “Trucks would be fitted with regulatory GPS devices and trucking operators would receive invoices based on the distance their trucks travelled, the roads they used and some sort of assessment of their mass” ... The ATA has called on both sides of politics to abandon the policy unless a business case can be proven. Instead, Stuart St Clair, chief executive officer of the Australian Trucking Association argues, the industry and the economy would be better served if the government abandoned the mass-distance-location pricing model along the high registration fees it charges the trucking sector and instead switched its emphasis to increasing fuel charges... Although technology and innovation had delivered significant productivity gains for the trucking industry over the past two decades, new regulations have basically eaten away any benefits those innovations provided, he said...


* New Zealand - Trucks mobilise on tax

Auckland,NZ -The Land, by Penelope Kilby -29 Jun, 2013: -- The trucking industry is campaigning against measures to extend the carbon tax...  The trucking industry is campaigning against measures to extend the carbon tax... The discussion of the carbon tax’s effect on the heavy vehicle industry has resurfaced, and industry heavyweights are weighing in. The Australian Trucking Associations’s Chairman, David Simon, said the association was focusing on the carbon tax and its effect on the transport industry... He said the Labor government planned to extend its carbon tax to fuel used by the trucking industry, and that trucking operators would pay almost seven cents a litre extra in fuel tax from July 1, 2014... “The Labor government’s plan to extend its carbon tax to truck fuel would cause more small trucking businesses to close,” Mr Simon said. "This would cost the industry more than half a billion dollars in the first year. Most trucking businesses do not have the market power to increase their freight rates to cover the cost of the tax and operate on very tight margins as it is” ... Mr Simon called on the Labor government to drop its plan to extend the carbon tax to truck fuel...

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