Australasian Transport News (ATN)

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Australasian Transport News

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...