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Australia’s largest heavy-duty truck assembly plant has put in place a 50-strong fleet of Linde material handling equipment. The Volvo truck production facility atWacol, Queensland is a 7.4 hectare site where 450 employees combine the resources of production halls, warehouses and hardstand areas to achieve an annual capacity of up to 3000 vehicles. Volvo undertook [...]
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The Australian Trucking Association (ATA) has released a poster detailing common misconceptions about the Intelligent Access Program (IAP), as well as several facts about longer, safer combinations and higher mass limits. The poster is designed to explain to local councils how they can improve productivity in their area without sacrificing safety or increasing road [...]
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Truck and bus operators would be overtaxed by almost $1.3 billion in 2012-13 if every government had put in place the NTC’s plan for registration charges, the Australian Trucking Association says. The ATA examined the number of heavy vehicles inAustraliaand compared it with the figures used by the NTC to calculate the industry’s fuel tax [...]
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The transport of dangerous goods inAustraliaby road and rail is governed by well-established laws and regulatory arrangements, but further improvements are needed, according to a National Transport Commission (NTC) review. NTC chief executive Nick Dimopoulos said the review has identified a number of recommendations to further strengthen the regulatory framework that is in place. “We [...]
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Total Australian truck sales for the first six months of 2012 were 14,342 units, or 7.8% above the modest 13,306 unit tally achieved for the same period in 2011. Given that production rates and sales a year ago were negatively affected by natural disasters in bothJapanandAustralia, the 2012 achievement to June is not a strong [...]
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The fuel tax credit that can be claimed by trucking operators decreased 2.4 cents per litre, from 15.043 to 12.643 cents per litre on 1 July. As a result, the effective fuel tax paid by trucking operators increased 10.4 per cent, from 23.1 to 25.5 cents per litre. The reduction in the fuel tax credit [...]
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Anyone who has travelled on trains in Europe or Japan rocketing along in silence and comfort wonders why Australian train continue to trundle at 1940s speeds. It’s not the train or even the lines, but the rocky foundations (or ballast) on which the rails are laid, and results in strict speed limits for [...]
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Directors of the Intelligent Transport Systems Asia Pacific Board, meeting at the ITS Asia Pacific Forum now on in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, have recommended Intelligent Transport Systems Australia (ITS Australia) host the 23rd World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems in 2016 in Melbourne. This decision is to be officially approved at the ITS World Congress [...]
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A five-year $25 million strategic research program between CSIRO and Boeing will see new innovation in space sciences, advanced materials, energy and direct manufacturing, which will drive improvements and productivity in the Australian economy. It is a further extension of a 23-year partnership, during which CSIRO and Boeing have jointly invested about $110 million across [...]
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