Experts believe Victoria is impeding our PBS uptake
Many in the industry believe it offers road transport the most important productivity and safety improvements since the introduction of the B-double in the 1980s.
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Have your say on Victoria’s most dangerous regional roads
As many truckies will attest, the state of many of our regional roads is simply unacceptable. Now, the RACV is calling on the drivers that use them to pinpoint Victoria’s most dangerous regional roads through the My Country Road survey.
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Haulin’ hardwood in the Victorian high country
Despite it being well into late spring, a jumper and a beanie were still necessary attire for Daryl Hutton as he was about to commence another day’s work in the north-east Victorian high country, with the sun yet to break through over the hilltops.
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Father and son pave the way for timber salvage
“I think the handpiece on the UHF might just about melt today,” quipped Ken Crockett as he anticipated plenty of radio and vehicular traffic along some of the remote roads and bush tracks in the Victorian high country.
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Bushfires keep Brett busy
Brett Macklin is doing the rounds of his B-double with an iron bar in his hands, checking all the tyres on his 19-metre log trailers after a run down Dunstan’s Road to Nariel in the upper reaches of north-eastern Victoria.
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Race is on to get job done
It has just gone 8.30am and Craig Radford works his way up through the gears as he heads out of the little town of Benambra in a remote corner of the north-east Victorian alpine region, with another long day hauling timber on the schedule.
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VTA cements Executive Council team at AGM
The Victorian Transport Association (VTA) formally elected Murphy Transport Solutions CEO Cameron Murphy to the council and re-elected President Mike Lean and Vice-President Dennis Ryan for further terms, during its 118th Annual General Meeting on Tuesday 24 November.
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Roads and productivity highlighted in Victorian Budget
Victoria was hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, and strict lockdowns and restrictions have crippled the state’s economy. The Victorian Transport Association (VTA) has thrown its support behind the Victorian Budget 2020/21, which includes $1.6 billion towards road network and infrastructure initiatives.
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Long drive for former farmer turned truckie
Now aged 63, Victorian driver Leigh Butterworth had transported trailers from the Dandenong region to Cairns in Far North Queensland when Big Rigs saw him recently.
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Seventy years of tricking up trucks and still truckin’
It was just seven years after man first landed on the moon that Mason Stevenson gave the first Clifford Brick and Tile truck its distinctive look.
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