* ACT - "... Will reduce the level of over-recovery"
-- Australia's 49,000 trucking operators, including 45,000 small businesses, will all benefit from the Government's decision to extend its current freeze on the rate of fuel tax they pay... The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development, Warren Truss, announced the decision recently... Trucking businesses currently pay 26.14 cents per litre in fuel tax, after the tax credits they claim on their business activity statements are taken into account... "The Government's decision to freeze our fuel tax for the second year running will reduce the level of over-recovery. It is a great result," said ATA CEO Christopher Melham...
(Photo by Trevor Veale / The Coffs Coast Advocate: fuel , petrol prices petrol bowser) -- Canberra, ACT, Australia - Big Rigs - 5th Jul 2015
* ACT - 2015 Trucking Woman of the Year appointed to ATA committee
-- Julie Russell, 2015 National Trucking Industry Woman of the Year, has been appointed chair of the Australian Trucking Association's industry Skills and Workforce committee... ATA Chair Noelene Watson welcomed Ms Russell to the role... Julie Russell is a Director for her family business, RB Russell Transport. She has extensive experience working with industry and government groups, including work with the NHVR, QLD Transport and Main Roads, the QTA and Workplace Health and Safety Queensland...
(Photo from RB Russell Transport - Qld Trucking Woman of the Year: Julie Russell) -- Canberra, A. Capitol Territory, Australia - Big Rigs - 4th Jul 2015
* WA - Truck drivers benefit from changes to fatigue policy
Warwick livestock truck drivers have welcomed a change to driver fatigue policies that allows drivers a new level of flexibility in their work and rest periods... The Advanced Fatigue Management scheme, effective from July 1, means drivers can propose the hours when they want to rest and work according to how they feel, so long as the fatigue risks of those work hours are offset by sleep and rest... Fraser's Livestock Transport principal Ross Fraser told, "So, what this new system will allow us to do is use that flexibility between trucking hours and allow drivers to manage their own fatigue, and that's something we've been looking for, for a long time" ...
(Photo by Amy Haydock: SAFETY FIRST: Fraser's Livestock Transport principal Ross Fraser, NHVR Executive Director, Productivity and Safety Geoff Casey and Martins Stock Haulage Queensland Livestock Operations Graeme Hoare at Ross's depot in Gracemere for the announcement of a new level of flexibility for drivers when managing their resting periods) -- Warwick, Western Australia - Big Rigs - 4th Jul 2015
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