Following the success of its recent ATA Live event – the Trucking Australia Conference in the Covid-era – the Australian Trucking Association is following the same path with its Technical and Maintenance Conference this year. Read more
Peak transport bodies unite to fight monopoly power of privately-owned ports
Peak transport and logistic groups have had enough of the monopoly power of privately-owned ports and are calling for the state and federal governments to take urgent action. Read more
Heavy vehicle compliance operation on Augusta Highway nets 228 defects
Enforcement officials had a mixed report for truckies after the recent four-day Operation Crossroads compliance campaign on the Augusta Highway in South Australia. Read more
Video: Snake catcher wrangles large eastern brown in back of Toll truck
Former truckie-turned snake catcher Ben Avery from Bayside Snake Catchers in Brisbane had to call on all his skills to safely wrangle this huge eastern brown from the back of this truck at the Port of Brisbane this week. Read more
Senator Glenn Sterle back behind truck wheel to help remote WA community
WA Labor Senator and former truckie Glenn Sterle slips back behind the wheel of a road train next week to support indigenous families in the remote East Kimberley region. Read more
NSW Transport Minister reveals when truckies forced to use $24 Sydney tunnel
Truckies’ days of using Pennant Hills Road instead of a $23.97 tollway in Sydney are numbered. Read more
QTA welcomes Labor election pledge to support its inland highway proposal
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has given her support to the Queensland Trucking Association’s proposal for an inland freight highway while on the campaign trail today. Read more
Outback Truckers talent call-out
Popular television show Outback Truckers is on the hunt for trucking talent for its upcoming season – and if you think you’ve got what it takes, they want to hear from you.
Convoy For Kids goes virtual
Though the Convoy For Kids Sydney won’t go ahead as planned, this time it heads into the virtual realm, with a series of fundraising initiatives for a very worthy cause.
$52 million upgrade on important WA freight route
Works will soon begin on an important 25km stretch of highway in Western Australia, costing $52 million and supporting around 90 jobs.