Let’s finally fix truckies’ rest areas once and for all
Fifteen years ago, an audit of rest areas could not find a single route which met national guidelines on spacing. This would be unsurprising to any truck driver, to say the least.
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‘The amount of road damage is astronomical’
“I love a sunburnt country; A land of sweeping plains; Of ragged mountain ranges; Of droughts and flooding rains.”
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Does Labor really have a reform agenda for trucking?
A new Federal Government is in town. They have had time to find their feet. But is there a reform agenda for this industry? That is not clear.
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Kanofski review is a step in the right direction
You’d be forgiven for thinking that the federal government is all-powerful but (as Covid showed us), the states also wield a lot of power.
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Nightmare jigsaw puzzle in which none of the pieces fit
Imagine if you ran a truck business like the senior bureaucrats are running the National Transport Commission. You would drive a truck around in a circle, not delivering anything. You would expect your customers to keep paying you, despite that lack of delivery.
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