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TRUCKING INDUSTRY NEWS * Australia: Linfox - Speed Cameras - Penalties
* Victoria - Lindsay Fox: The billionaire trucker
Essendon Fields,VIC,Australia -Billionaires, by Victor Panelli -November 10, 2014: -- Lindsay Fox the founder of trucking business Linfox, he is also one of the richest people in the world having amassed a fortune worth $2.5 billion (AU$2.87 billion) according to Forbes... After leaving school at the age of 16, Fox started up the trucking company that would make his fortune by this time in his life and he built the business up from having just one truck, which he drove himself at first... Linfox is now Australia’s biggest privately held logistics company and it operates in 10 different countries around the world, running some 5,000 vehicles in total... Fox has also built up an extensive set of commercial and industrial property holdings, which includes two airports and a series of warehouses...
* NSW - RMS Complance Chief, Endycott, calls for customer contracts
Sydney,NSW,Australia -ATN/Fully Loaded, by Steve Skinner -10 Nov 2014: -- The head of enforcement for chain of responsibility in New South Wales says he wants trucking operators to send in customer contracts that stipulate penalties for running late... Paul Endycott is general manager of compliance operations at NSW Roads and Maritime Services (RMS). He was speaking at the recent Australian Trucking Association’s Technical and Maintenance Conference in Melbourne... "For the last year coming out of our speed enforcement program we've identified consignors and consignees that probably employ some of those practices, apply penalties, whether they're written in a contract or whether they’re verbal... Whether it's the manager in the distribution centre or not that's actually employing these practices, it must stop... We need to know that this behaviour is carried on and is active because it is definitely influencing risk and it needs to be stopped" ... Endycott says his staff of about 20 chain of responsibility investigators sometimes receive contracts sent anonymously by trucking operators. He adds that boardroom minutes, decisions and "instructions that are given down the line" are also "extremely good evidence"...
* South Australia - Watch your speed: New pont-to-point speed cameras for
Adelaide,SA,Australia -ATN/Fully Loaded -29 Sept 2014: -- Another four point-to-point speed cameras will begin operating in South Australia in 2015... A new batch of point-to-point speed cameras will be turned on next year in South Australia to monitor road users travelling on some of the state’s busiest routes... Point-to-point cameras measure the average speed of a vehicle between two points. A driver is fined if their vehicle exceeds the average speed limit between those points. The devices also work as normal speed cameras... Road safety minister Tony Piccolo says, the units recorded 279 at-point or average-speed offences and 28 instances where drivers attempted to evade detection... Final camera installation and tests are due to start in late 2014 before the cameras become operational next year...
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