Australasian Transport News (ATN)

Australasian Transport News (ATN) delivers the impact of the printed page with the immediacy and convenience that comes from delivery on Zinio Featuring all the same great content, insight, business intelligence and reviews as the print magazine, it is an essential tool for all transport professionals looking to leverage Australia’s leading transport industry title.

Australasian Transport News

Another ugly pandemic • Misuse of Australia state charges and fines reminiscent of Venezuela

NEWS • Dogs & Chains

MANAGERS CHARGED OVER SA CRASH • Two company managers have been arrested after an investigation into a fatal truck crash at Piccadilly in October, South Australia Police (SAPOL) reports

K&S Freighters comes under Comcare WHS scrutiny

BETTA GROUP BUY BOLSTERS ORCODA PORTFOLIO

EAGERS SELLS DAIMLER DEALERSHIPS TO VVG

TWU AND COLES UNVEIL CHARTER

ACCC OUTLINES PFD FOOD SERVICES ACQUISITION CONCERNS

DIRECTOR BANNED FOR FIVE YEARS

Hefty fines in Aussie Earthmovers asbestos documents case

SHOW TIME • This is everything we have been waiting for

SEAROAD TO PUT LIEKUT ON BASS STRAIT DUTIES

Centurion nabs huge Century Mining Limited logistics deal

NSW CRASH STATS SEE IMPROVEMENT

TFNSW ADDS INSIGHT INTO LATEST COMPLIANCE STATISTICS

TFNSW TO REVIEW PBLIS

HORNE AND CONSTANCE HAIL NATIONAL STEVEDORE CHARGES EFFORT

TRIBUTES FOR INDUSTRY GREATS

Administrators appointed for liquidation of Wridgways Pty Ltd

VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE AND YOU COULD WIN BIG! • HERE ARE THE 12 FINALISTS FOR THE 2020 VALVOLINE TRUCK OF THE YEAR

End date for ‘zombie’ agreements • The time for modernising sclerotic aspects of enterprise bargaining is overdue

SHOCK OF THE NEW 2 • This is the second part of ATN’s look at two of Australia’s electric commercial truck early adopters’ experience of their experiment in support of Ikea using SEA Electric-powered light rigids. In it, Paul Kahlert of All Purpose Transport and Finn Dunleavy of ANC explain the driver’s view, how the managers went about it and how they view the future

The SafeT360 experience • ATA takes the lead on road safety research

BIG BUILDS • Transport and equipment heavyweights usher in the New Year with new warehousing moves

Game of risk • Is time up for ‘Just-in-Time’?

BIGGER IS BETTER • Jarred and Cassy Sacco have come a long way, in both geography and adaptability, to operate one of the most professional heavy haulage outfits in north Queensland, including their first-ever Kenworth C509

AIR HEADS • Aerodynamics! It’s one of those seemingly endless pursuits with a similarly endless array of possibilities – some practical, some not – for conserving every droplet of fuel. For cab-over designers in particular, it’s a challenge greatly magnified by the inherent demands of turning a sizeable slab of metal and glass into a sleek, efficient workhorse. But have all the biggest gains already been made or are there more to come?

THE MOTIVES OF MAY • If Michael May ever departs corporate life, he should perhaps pursue politics. The latest in a long line of managing directors at Iveco Australia, the astute former head of Mercedes-Benz truck operations in Australia has that prudent propensity for saying plenty without actually revealing much at all. Even so, and whatever his ultimate agenda, he may be just the cool-headed leader who delivers stability, direction and energy to an embattled brand

STYLE AND SUBSTANCE • Mazda steps out in a new direction with the 2020 BT-50 one-tonne ute

HINTS OF A BRIGHTER YEAR TO COME IN TRUCK SALES • DECEMBER SEES A COMPARATIVELY PROMISING END TO 2020 DESPITE PANDEMIC