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Aug 12, 2017

ELECTRIC TRUCKS POWER * New Zealand - Infrastructures

* Auckland - Will soon have the infrastructure to keep EVs moving

--- To support NZ’s transition from fossil fuels to renewable electricity as a transport fuel, Chargemaster Limited is working with world leaders to bring market-leading technology to NZ... After a comprehensive global scan, Chargemaster has selected Dutch based company Heliox for heavy vehicle charging bus, mining and port-vehicle charging, and Austrian based Keba for intelligent residential, public and commercial charging to bring charging stations to NZ... Heliox is an established European market leader, with more than 85% of the total electric bus charging market... Keba is a proven AC charging solution for light vehicles, with more than 35,000 chargers sold globally... As the uptake of EVs increase, it is important to make sure that NZ’s infrastructure to support that uptake grows... Chargemaster is beginning to take the necessary steps to ensure that heavy EVs can make the long-haul and that civilian EVs get the necessary benefits of stable charging...
(Photo: Nissan's EV chargering point)   --  New Zealand - Future Five, by Jacques-Pierre Dumas - August 08, 2017

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May 16, 2017

* Japan - Retailer's switch from diesel to electric delivery trucks

* Tokyo - Seven-Eleven Japan introducing electric delivery trucks by cost savings
--- Seven-Eleven Japan will introduce electric trucks to deliver products to its stores in order to reduce distribution costs as drivers become more expensive in shorthanded Japan... The electric trucks can reduce the operating costs of delivery vehicles by approximately 40% compared to the diesel ones currently used. By employing electric trucks to deliver goods to its approximately 19,000 stores in Japan, the Seven & i Holdings unit will accelerate the logistics reforms undertaken by the retail sector... The compact electric trucks will start being mass produced by Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus as early as this fall. Seven-Eleven is expected to begin operating 25 of the vehicles as soon as this year, mainly in the Tokyo area... 
Tokyo, Japan - The Nikkei Asian Review - May 9, 2017

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Mar 31, 2017

TRUCKS BORDER CROSSING * Thailand: Alloweds with "temporary admission document"

* Bangkok - Govt okays cargo truck border deal

 --- The cabinet approved the Greater Mekong Sub-region Cross-Border Transport Agreement (GMS CBTA) on Tuesday, which grants all members a quota of 500 cargo trucks to cross a border to another country... Once approved, the pact must be put into action within 12 months, he said. Under the terms of the deal, cargo trucks from Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia and China will be able to cross borders... Under the terms of the deal, cargo trucks from Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia and China will be able to cross borders into other member countries using a so-called "temporary admission document"... 
(Photo: Overland Crossing Into Myanmar from Thailand)   --  Bangkok, Thailand - The Bangkok Post, by AMORNRAT MAHITTHIROOK - 30 Mar 2017

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Mar 18, 2017

TRUCKERS' REVOLT * France - On Martinique Island

* Martinique - Revolt rumbles among road hauliers

-- Inapplicable provisions concerning driving time and rest periods, freight prices in free fall and threshold of high gasoline tax exemption: the subjects of grogne multiplied for the carriers of Martinique. These have been raising the pressure with the local authorities for several days. The  carriers of Martinique are mobilizing. Some fifty vehicles blocked the CTM (Territorial Collectivity of Martinique) Wednesday, February 15. The cause of the sling? The strict application of European regulations on driving and rest periods... "It is not viable in this region because there are no car parks along the roads. Drivers are therefore forced to find impossible solutions on acceleration lanes, service stations or Customers, where they are being forced back, "said Catherine Pons, vice-president of UNOSTRA... Brussels, in the interests of finding a solution, had indeed granted a derogation which could concern Caribbean carriers by excluding from the scope of the regulation territories of less than 2300 km2 ... 
Martinique Island, France  --  ACTU Logistique et Transport (France), by SLIMANE BOUKEZZOULA - Updated 13 March 2017

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Mar 7, 2017

TRUCKERS WATCH THIS PICTURE: So, when you think that the automation of the trucks will arrive to your routes? For example * Australia

* DRIVERS DON'T WORRY: AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES STILL FAR INTO THE FUTURE


(Picture: The levels, as seen above, run from zero to five, with zero involving no automation and five offering full automation) 

--- While efforts are being made in this domain, self-driving vehicles may not become a reality in Australia soon. Here’s why... First, the laws lag, and we don’t appear to have the infrastructure either... And as the table shows, the major shift really occurs between Level 2 and 3, when the dynamic driving task goes from being controlled by the driver, to being controlled by the automated driving system... In Australia, there is some grey area around what level of autonomy is legally allowed, whether it’s a Level 2 or 3... Currently, there are a number of Level 2 autonomous vehicles operating around the country, but there aren’t any Level 3 vehicles outside of authorised trials... Technically, Level 3 is permitted, because there is a human ‘Fallback Performance of Dynamic Driving Task’ which essentially means a driver has to be able to intervene if the system requires it to do so. However, this means the person needs to be in control, with their hands on the wheel and in a fit condition... The laws permitting the use of a Level 3 autonomous vehicle weren’t really developed to be inclusive of self-driving cars, but as it stands, they’re driveable down under... To take things up a notch, Uber’s purchase of autonomous truck manufacturer Otto, who appears to be using Volvo trucks to develop their technology, meant the company was able to put a truck on the road capable of Level 4... The truck successfully transported 50,000 cans of Budweiser beer 120 miles from the brewery in Fort Collins to Colorado Springs, USA... While this truck achieved full Level 4 autonomy, with the driver out of the front seat altogether, it only did it on the motorway... Regardless, it’s still proof that as high as Level 4 automation can be achieved for the highway, which is where a lot of interstate drivers down under spend most of their time... Other manufactures are also pushing forward in the autonomous truck space, with Scania and Volvo both using driverless trucks in mines using both remote-control functionality and autonomous technology... Scania is also set to design a full-scale four-truck autonomous platooning operation using public roads in Singapore... We’re likely to see a host of Level 2 trucks enter the national fleet over the coming years, but how long Level 3 is going to take is unknown... 
Sidney, NSW, Australia - ATN, by Cobey Bartels - 1st March 2017

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Jan 24, 2017

TRUCKS SALES * Iran: To buy 5,000 cargo trucks

* Alborz - Deal to replace 5,000 aging cargo trucks in Iran

--- The Iranian government is moving to replace aging vehicles in its cargo truck fleet to cap fuel consumption and help contain the country's worsening air pollution... Based on a trilateral contract signed by the Roads Ministry-affiliate Road Maintenance and Transportation Organization, Iranian Fuel Conservation Company and Mammut Industrial Group, 5,000 aging trucks will be replaced with new ones. The contract was signed in a ceremony in Mammut Industrial Group's factory located in Alborz Province on Sunday... There are 120,000-130,000 vehicles in Iran's cargo truck fleet with over 25 years in age on average... As part of an agreement between the ministries of roads and oil, the government is planning to replace 65,000 dilapidated trucks within five years... The old age of the fleet has resulted in excessive fuel consumption, while contributing to air pollution... 
 (Photo: The contract was signed in a ceremony in Mammut Industrial Group’s factory located in Alborz Province on Jan. 22)  --  Karaj, Alborz, Iran - Financial Tribune - January 23, 2017

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Jan 18, 2017

UBER * France: A marketplace for cargo

* París - THE NEW:  Uber Freight in road transport

--- On December 27, 2016, the American company Uber launched the Uber Freight service in the United States, a digital freight exchange open to shippers and carriers. With a commercial strike force that, for now, has been put on hold... Despite the deemed discreet launch the day after Christmas, various newspapers across the Atlantic and France highlighted this digital implementation, new intermediation service for the long haul transport, with prices varying according to supply and demand... In this context, the commission ("freight brokers"), numbering more than 10,000 in the US, are the first affected. Before Uber Freight they saw implant and develop apps Lyft , Hailo, Traansmission (New York), Cargomatic (Los Angeles), Keychain Logistics (in San Francisco), which use the same principle of a scholarship freight backed mapping and geolocation freight vehicles, operating in real time... These services are remunerated through commissions on each transaction and / or subscriptions. This type of "marketplace" for freight is in vogue in the United States because of the weight that weighs the road transport... According to the American Trucking Association (ATA), road transport handles 80% of annual volumes, amounting to $ 700 billion. In this flow, the empty routes are the economic scourge that the logisticians want to limit. They would generate a cost of around 16 billion just for the only container transport, says the ATA...
París, France - The Official Carrier, by BENOÎT BARBEDETTE - 4 JAN 2017

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Nov 11, 2016

BORDER TRADE * India & Subcontinent: Eased by inter-countries' agreement

* New Delhi - Cross-border shipment cuts logistics cost by 20% between India and Bangladesh

--- For the first time a truck carrying cargo was allowed to cross over to India from Bangladesh without requiring the consignment to be unloaded and transferred to another truck. Known as transhipment, this has been the time consuming and costly practice of border crossing norms until today... This was the result of many months of lobbying efforts between the two countries under the newly signed BBIN Motor Vehicles Assignment reached between India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan... Under the new terms trucks traveling between the four countries via land are no longer required to have cargo trans-shipped during travel, drastically reducing the time taken to transport goods across borders... Industry experts predict that the agreement will effectively reduce transit time for cargo trucks by approximately three days, and overall logistics costs by up to 20%. Moreover, transforming what are traditionally perceived as transport corridors into economic corridors could potentially increase intra-regional trade within South Asia by almost 60% and with the rest of the world by over 30%...  The trucks now follow a new Customs inspection and verification procedure using the E-Seal, which can be affixed to the vehicle at the beginning of the journey... This streamlined solution will continue to offer complete visibility to global customers sourcing from the region... 
(File photo: PTI - The trial run of GPS-monitored cargo truck was successful)  --   New Delhi, India - India Today, by Atir Khan and Kritika Banerjee - September 26, 2016

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Nov 8, 2016

ROAD TOLLS in * UKRAINE: For freight trucks

* Ukraine - Should introduce tolls for freight trucks on roads of national importance

--- Newly appointed Acting Head of the controversial state motorway agency Ukravtodor, Slawomir Nowak, has called for the introduction of a payment system for freight trucks on the roads of national importance... "There is a sacred rule in Europe: 'Those who drive [on roads] – pay.' And the ones who inflict the most damage also pay. And who damages the roads most? It's the heavy vehicles used to make money on freight transportation. No transport minister has ever or will ever be able to build, as some magician or sorcerer, a road which is not being destroyed under the weight of trucks," Novak said in an interview with Espresso.tv... He also added that it was necessary to introduce a system of weight control for road safety... "A truck cannot be overloaded by threefold, because there is no technology of road construction that would allow roads to survive trucks weighing 120-150 tonnes. Because it will once again be a deliberate waste of citizens' money," Nowak said...
Kiev, Ukraine - Unian - 7 Nov 2016

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Oct 28, 2016

* South Africa - “Road will always play a role in transport"

* Gauteng - SA‘s trucking industry is in trouble

--- The importance of the road freight industry to South Africa’s economy is underscored by the fact that 86 percent of the freight transported annually in the country goes by road... Road Freight Association of SA technical and operations manager Gavin Kelly said the latest e-Natis figures showed there were 557 795 commercial vehicles of m ore than 3500kg on South Africa’s roads, including trailers. According to Statistics SA, road transport contributed nine percent to the economy, he added, and a total of 103 000 formal and informal employees were employed by the road freight sector. However, the SA Transport and Allied Workers Union claimed 300 000people were employed by the sector... Kelly was adamant there was no threat to the road freight industry... “The reality is that rail cannot meet the demand from customers and to customers in terms of reliability, cost, security of load, service from door to door and efficiencies. “Road will always play a role in transport. The lessons learnt here and across the world show this,” he said... 
(Photo: Simphiwe Mbokazi - According to the national transport master plan, demand for road freight is expected to increase in the period to 2050) -- Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa - IOL.com.ZA, by Roy Cokayne - 26 October 2016

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Oct 10, 2016

BAN ON DOUBLE TRAILERS * Mexico - By the Citizens’ Movement party

* Mexico - Another party joins transport truck debate

--- The opposition to semi-tractors pulling two trailers is growing as yet another political party has presented a legislative proposal to Congress... The Citizens’ Movement party (MC) seeks to prohibit the practice and backed up its position with data that indicates that two-trailer rigs in particular and cargo transportation in general are the main causes of most traffic accidents on Mexican highways... The proposal presented by the Citizens’ Movement party observed that 84% of domestic cargo is transported by trucks and “during 2013 alone those trucks were involved in 18,000 accidents” ... The document observed that the number of fatalities due to traffic accidents is close to 20,000 a year... The proposal quoted a study by the Finance Secretariat that said 90% of accidents involving cargo trucks could be prevented if greater transit safety measures were implemented... The same study said the three most important factors in transit safety were the human component, proper truck maintenance and tire inspections... 
(Photo: Emergency personnel at the scene of Friday's accident)   --   Mexico DF, MEX - Mexico News Daily - October 4, 2016

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TRUCKERS' STRIKE * South Korea

* Seoul - Unionized workers of freight transport to go on strike from Monday

--- Truck drivers threatened to go on a strike from Monday midnight following the ongoing strike by railway workers, raising fear of a major ground logistics disruption in Korea. The government warned clampdown against illegal strike and is recruiting replacement workers to keep logistics trade unaffected by walkouts... Leaders of unionized workers of freight transport announced on Wednesday in a press conference that it would embark on a general strike to oppose to the government’s reform outline on freight transport market released in August. The leaders ordered unionized members to refuse cargo loading and unloading starting Monday... The union blamed the government for refusing to hear workers out and causing them to go on a strike... The union fears that the deregulation proposed in the outline could lead to spike in cargo trucks while the government shrugs off the concerns of a glut as the liberalization primarily is aimed for small trucks of less than 1.5 tons that are short in supply... 
Seoul, S.K. - Pulse News, by Chun Jung-hong - 5 Oct 2016

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Oct 5, 2016

TRUCKERS´HOS * South Korea - 30´ rest every 4 hours driving

* Seoul - Cargo truck drivers required to rest after four hours on road

--- Freight truck drivers will have to take a minimum 30-minute break for each four hours on the road under law revisions the government issued in a pre-enactment notice on Tuesday, except at times of natural disasters, accidents and other extraneous circumstances... Trucking companies that do not obey the rule will be penalized with business suspensions of between 30 to 90 days, depending on the frequency of the violations, or 600,000 won (US$540) to 1.8 million won in fines... The government measures follow repeated accidents involving freight trucks, often caused by drivers exhausted from long hours of driving to meet deadlines and harsh working conditions... The revisions allow for the punishment of companies that operate trucks for more than the permitted hours, with business license revocation being the maximum punishment... 
Seoul, South Korea - Yonhap - 13 Sept 2016

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Sep 29, 2016

SMUGGLING GOLD & DIAMOND * South Africa

* South Africa - Trucker arrested for gold, diamond smuggling

--- A 45-year-old man has been arrested at the Beitbridge boarder while trying to smuggle diamonds and gold, police said on Tuesday... The truck was then escorted to the scanner. After a physical scan was conducted and undeclared goods were found the suspect offered a higher bribe of R800... Police said diamonds and gold were found covered with brown tape and toilet roll, said Ngoape. However, he did not say where the truck was from... “The suspect was immediately arrested for bribery and possession of precious stones” ... 
(Photo by Motshwari Mofokeng/INDEPENDENT MEDIA: Traffic at the Beitbridge border between South Africa and Zimbabwe) -- Beitbridge, Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe- African News Agency/IOL (SA) - 27 September 2016

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Sep 27, 2016

TRUCKS ART * Pakistan: Decorated commercial vehicles

* Islabamad - Colorful artwork on trucks

--- It’s everywhere. Anything bigger than a pickup truck — from school buses to city mass transit buses to semi-trucks, even garbage trucks — are decorated on the front, the back and on both sides, with colorful artwork. In fact, I can’t remembering seeing a large truck that wasn’t fully decorated... Sometimes the artwork is painted directly on the vehicle. But most of the time there are huge panels attached to the sides of the trucks with multiple smaller panels painted in a variety of bright colors... It is clearly part of Pakistan’s cultural identity and a point of pride for many people in the country. I’ll be the first to tell you that there are parts of Karachi, my current location, that aren’t very pretty. It’s a city of 20 million people and a considerable segment of the population lives in extreme poverty... But in America, our big trucks can be a bit ugly, so Pakistan has that on America. It seems to be prevalent on privately owned as well as fleet trucks, and even has migrated to some smaller vehicles such as the three-wheeled taxis that dominate the streets or food vendor carts parked on the sidewalks... 
(Photo: Colorful decorations completely cover Pakistani trucks, like this one parked in the capital of Islamabad) -- Karachi, Pakisan - The Tribune (CO, USA), by Randy Bangert - 24 Sept 2016

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TRUCKERS' TROUBLES * Jordan: Border closures for trucks

* Amman - Border closures costing Jordanian truckers Millions


--- Jordanian truck drivers have lost approximately JD600 million (*U$S 845M) over the past five years due to the closure of borders with Iraq and Syria, the Jordanian Truck Owners Association said... The association’s president, Mohammad al Dawood, said overland journeys by truck drivers have plummeted by 80 percent since the border closures, which have forced merchants to ship their goods by more expensive sea routes instead... Due to the ongoing instability in neighboring Iraq and Syria that have served as corridors for Jordanian goods into other countries for decades, Jordan’s exports have greatly dwindled. Official figures reveal that in 2015 Jordan’s exports to Iraq dropped to $690 million from $1.16 billion the previous year... Currently Jordanian truckers have access to Saudi Arabia, which they use to carry goods into the kingdom or to transit through to Kuwait where the merchandise is shipped to Iraq’s Basra port. Some trucks are also shipped into Egypt where they then continue on their way across the country, while others go to the Port of Haifa to unload their goods... After recapturing the Trebil border crossing with Jordan this summer from ISIS, the Iraqi forces said they were trying to secure the road and reopen the crossing for trade. It is not clear though when that will happen and al Dawood stressed that trucks will not be making their way into Iraq unless the road is 100 percent secured...(*1U$S = 0,71 JDinars)
Amman, Jordania - Venture Magazine - Sept 25, 2016

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Sep 22, 2016

INHUMAN WAR * Syria: Trucks aid convoy, hit by air strikes

* Aleppo - Human Rights monitoring group said attacks were carried out by Syrian or Russian aircraft
--- Syria's fragile ceasefire appears to have been shattered after an aid convoy was hit by air strikes that killed at least 12 people, mostly truck drivers and Red Crescent workers. It is not clear who was behind the attack. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said the attacks were carried out by either Syrian or Russian aircraft, adding that there had been 35 strikes in and around Aleppo since the truce ended... UN officials said the convoy was delivering assistance for 78,000 people in the town of Urm al-Kubra, west of the rebel-held city of Aleppo. Initial estimates indicate that about 18 of the 31 trucks in the convoy were hit, as well as the Red Crescent warehouse in the area. A local resident told Reuters by phone that the trucks were hit by about five missile strikes... The UN humanitarian aid agency says it has temporarily suspended all convoys in Syria following the deadly air strike on aid trucks... The convoy, part of an inter-agency dispatch operated by the Syrian Red Crescent, was hit in the rural western Aleppo province. The White Helmets first responder group posted images of a number of vehicles on fire and a video of the attack showed huge balls of fire in a pitch black area, as ambulances arrive on the scene... Aid deliveries to the besieged eastern districts of Aleppo did not reach their destination. The UN accused the government of obstructing the deliveries, while Russian officials said rebels opened fire along the delivery roads...
(Photo by Omar haj Kadour/AFP - Aid is scattered around a truck outside a bombed warehouse) -- Aleppo, Syria - I.B.Times, by David Sim - September 20, 2016

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Sep 19, 2016

TRUCKS ON TRAIN * South Africa - Transport tested in

* Johannesburg - Hybrid trucks running on railways set to revolutionise transport


--- In a move that could have a dramatic effect on the country's long-haul trucking industry, Transnet announced this week it had signed an agreement on a freight service in which privately owned road trucks will run over its rail network... The project - a joint venture between Transnet Freight Rail and RailRunner SA - will see a test train of truck trailers being hauled on rail bogies on the Cape corridor in the first half of next year... This means that the containers do not need to be lifted off the truck... So, the RailRunner system will allow truckers to focus on the "last mile" part of the logistics chain where rail cannot operate...
 (Photo: Trucks on a train) -- Johannesburg, S.A. - The Times Live, by PAUL ASH - 18 Sept 2016

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TRUCKS BANNED from SKYWAY * Philippines

* Manila - Trucks to be banned from Skyway to improve safety

---  All trucks will be banned from using Metro Manila’s Skyway starting Nov. 15, 2016 in an effort to improve road safety and speed up the flow of traffic on the elevated toll road and the soon-to-be-opened NAIA Expressway... Skyway O&M (Somco)—the operator of the Skyway system—said that a recent consultative meeting with barangay (village) officials, local police, highway patrol units, mall owners and other stakeholders determined that it was unsafe for trucks to use the elevated road, since they pose potential risks to other road users... This was reinforced by two recent major accidents involving delivery trucks of a beverage company which were reported along the Skyway elevated section, causing heavy traffic along the busy thoroughfare... Faster traffic flow would benefit not only other motorists, but also passengers of PUVs, their drivers and operators, as well as truck owners and their business clients... According to Somco, the daily average number of vehicles using the Skyway system has risen from 180,000 in 2015 to around 200,000 this year... 
(Photo by JILSON SECKLER TIU: Wheels blocked trucks on Manila's street)  --  Manila, Philippine - The Philippine Daily Inquirer, by: Daxim L. Lucas - September 18th, 2016

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Sep 17, 2016

TRUCKERS WIN * Romania - Reduction in insurance costs

* Bucharest - After a day of nationwide protests

--- Romanian truck drivers and regulators reached an agreement on Thursday to reduce planned insurance rates that truckers say would have crippled their industry, ending a day of nationwide protests... Augustin Hagiu, a transport protest leader, and the Financial Supervisory Authority said they agreed to cap annual rates at 7,500 lei ($1,900), a reduction of more than 40 percent from the previously planned hike... Hundreds of trucks, taxis and other commercial vehicles blocked a major square in Bucharest, the Romanian capital, for hours to protest the planned higher rates. Police reported traffic congestion around other Romanian cities as truck drivers drove slowly to protest against rates they said would be higher than in neighboring countries... About 400 protesters had parked their vehicles outside the government offices in Bucharest's central Victory Square, snarling traffic in the city. They honked their horns and yelled, "We won't leave!" ... 
 (AP Photo by Vadim Ghirda - A man rides a motorcycle by trucks and taxis parked in a main square during a protest in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016. Trucks and other vehicles have blocked a major square and boulevard in the Romanian capital to protest planned new insurance rates they say are too expensive and police reported traffic congestion around Romania after truck drivers drove slowly in protest) -- Bucharest, Romania - AP/abc news — Sep 15, 2016

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