Registrations are now open for Trucking Australia 2018, the Australian Trucking Association’s national event where operators drive the future of the industry.
Trucking Australia 2018 will be held at the National Convention Centre, Canberra, from Wednesday 18 to Friday 20 April 2018.
Industry legend Peter Wickham was handed the keys of the 60,000th Australian built and designed Kenworth in a ceremony in Bayswater, Melbourne, today.
Activists planning to join the pig protest next week should stay safe and out of the way of the industry’s trucks.
Sixty thousand trucks have now rolled off Volvo Group Australia’s production line in Wacol, Queensland. It’s a magnificent achievement, and more Australians need to know about it, the Chair of the Australian Trucking Association, Geoff Crouch, said today.
The tax office has fixed truck driver meal allowances, following close consultations with the ATA, its members and other trucking industry associations.
In July, the tax office announced that employee truck drivers would only be able to claim $55.30 per day in meal allowances without detailed receipts.
Road Freight NSW––the peak industry organisation representing trucking operators in NSW––will become an independent organisation from 1 January 2018 to better serve its NSW membership base.
The first step in the Government’s road funding reforms must be to fix the overcharging of truck and bus operators, the Chair of the Australian Trucking Association, Geoff Crouch, said today.
Truck and bus operators will be overcharged by $343 million in 2017-18. As a result, truck fuel and registration charges are too high.
The technical experts behind the Australian trucking industry were recognised for their hard work and professionalism at the Castrol Vecton Awards Dinner in Melbourne this evening, 17 October.
Melbourne based truck driver Steve Bolton is the latest recipient of the Bridgestone Bandag Highway Guardian Award.
The current series of tragic truck crashes has to stop. Transport operators need to talk to their people about driver distraction, industry trainer Ian Pendered said today.
Mr Pendered has been in the industry for more than 45 years as a driver, business owner and now trainer.
“We recently have had a series of tragic accidents—and I mean tragic accidents,” Mr Pendered said.
