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Reach for the resilience • It’s the one that’s wo rth the effort and reaps rewards
Dogs & Chains
NHVR PROSECUTES OVER COR BREACH • A Victorian building supplies company has become the first consignor prosecuted by the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) under the 2018 Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL) Chain of Responsibility (COR) amendments
South Australian transport owner in speed limiter tampering conviction
EASTERN FREEWAY CRASH DRIVER GETS 22 YEARS
SENTENCE SUSPENDED FOR QUEENSLAND FATAL CRASH TRUCK DRIVER
TWU CALLS FOR BROADER REFORMS
Huge Elgas fine in Samuels Transport LPG tanker hose explosion case
SCT TO PAY WOOLWORTHS FOR CARGO LOSSES
TRANSTAR LINEHAUL LEGAL COSTS BID AGAINST CCSR FAILS
PACIFIC NATIONAL AND LINFOX IN SA INTERMODAL DEAL
TNT and Fedex integration finalises in Australia
CRASH STATS ANALYSIS SEES MAINTENANCE VALUE
LATEST HEAVY VEHICLE HEALTH CHECK LOOMS FOR OPERATORS
HVIA CALLS FOR INTERIM APPROVALS FOR PBS
NHVR PLEDGES TO BOOST PBS PROCESSING OF APPLICATIONS
AUSTROADS IN AGEING TRUCK FLEET IMPACT PROBE
ATA blasts Austroads over ageing truck registration proposal
TIC AGREES ON CHARGE HIKE
ACCC approval for freight brokers
NATROAD HAILS PASSING OF CASUAL EMPLOYMENT REFORM
ATA URGES SENATE INQUIRY TO FOCUS ON DIRECT SAFETY MEASURES
SMALLER INDUSTRY UNDERDOGS TAKE ON THE BIG BOYS
Industry skills shortage hitting Western Australia's economy
PORT BOTANY LOGISTICS STILL IN CRISIS
TFNSW SHEDS LIGHT ON WORK OF EMPTY CONTAINER WORKING GROUP
PAUL GRAHAM NEW CEO OF AUSTRALIA POST
BILLSON TAKES ON ASBFEO ROLE
PACIFIC NATIONAL TAPS SCURRAH FOR HEAD
CHAPMAN GAINS MACK VICE PRESIDENT ROLE
We Deliver The Goods • Metro. Regional. Interstate
BRIEFS
STANDARD PRACTICE • Getting up their NOS 2: a look at how National Operating Standard idea and its predecessors have risen and fallen over decades through the prism of four documents
Bad deal doom looms in industry • Unfair contracts will send many owner-drivers to the wall in pandemic’s wake
QUEENSLAND MINISTERS PRAISE INDUSTRY FESTIVAL • Mark Bailey and Stirling Hinchliffe underline the importance of Australian Heavy Vehicle Industry Week
PRIVATE PUSH • Toll Global Express and Bingo Industries are the latest in a new line of private equity takeovers involving fleet-owner and transport and logistics players
FATHER AND SON • It was starkly obvious from a very young age that Quinten Mathie would follow his father, Phillip, into trucks. As a boy, he thrived in his father’s shadow, copying everything he did, especially in the ways of operating and respecting big machinery. But now, the boy is a man forging his own future and, despite cruel circumstance, resilience and an unfailing work ethic remain the lifelong values of a proud and stoic family
Fight financial pressures • Injecting still more cost into trucking is no reward for crucial and unstinting work
AMERICANA CLASSIC • Garry Leeson’s 2006 Peterbilt has done the hard yards, been put in the retirement shed and then, after a load of TLC, is back doing what it does best – hauling logs in eastern Victoria. ATN catches up with the Leesons and Peterbilt devotee Dan ‘Deppo’ Glover
Drivers’ health a workplace...