The way rules are applied creates industry issues
The heavy vehicle sector is a place where rules are not made to be broken.
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Take National Freight and Supply Chain Strategy back to basics
Renowned American businessman Jack Welch once said: “Strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.”
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Red tape sucking life out of productivity in transport industry
Regardless of whether you’re an owner-operator, or the boss of a company running a dozen trucks, you must have noticed the increasing volume of red tape affecting everything you do.
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Supply chain woes make road freight more vital
If you dig hard enough, you can find something occurring today that was predicted by someone at some point in the past. A 2019 paper by Engineers Australia is a great example.
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Time for hard policy decisions around decarbonisation of trucking
A day doesn’t go by without a spate of media stories pushing hydrogen as a viable fuel alternative to diesel, or that electric trucks are entering the market, although in small numbers and for specialised purposes.
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Carrot vs stick approach is worth a fresh look
The announcement that a new Australian Design Rule will make reversing technology mandatory in all new vehicles in Australia, including trucks, from 2025 shouldn’t have come as a surprise.
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Truckie mental health needs to be on national agenda
Recent publicity about The Open Road, Open Up initiative, encouraging truckies to talk to their peers about mental health issues, was welcome.
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Negotiating the tech maze is vital to staying viable
What’s the United Nations got to do with making sure a flatbed of hay bales makes it to a customer’s depot on time? Not much, but occasionally the UN has something to say that should make us sit up and take notice.
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Fix the AdBlue issue first: new year wish list
There’s a long list of things I’d like to see our industry achieve in 2022 but three are at the head of the NatRoad agenda.
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