An action plan to reduce workplace injury and illness in the NSW road freight transport industry has been launched by WorkCover NSW. The industry is one of the states’ 10 highest risk industries with 5,512 injuries and illness and ...
Tags: Road Industry, Workcover Targets, Service
The 2013 Budget has failed Australia’s trucking businesses because it does not reverse the government’s plan to extend the carbon tax to the trucking industry, Australian Trucking Association chief executive Stuart St Clair ...
Tags: Road Transport Industry, Service, Budget
The 4th meeting of the Standing Council on Transport and Infrastructure (the Standing Council) has been held in Canberra to consider a wide range of transport initiatives and reforms. The Standing Council includes Transport, Infrastructure ...
The Victorian Transport Association (VTA) has welcomed the announcement by the Victorian Government of the extension of available roads in Victorian regional and metropolitan areas for access by Higher Productivity Freight Vehicles (HPFV), ...
Victoria has moved a step closer to a second international airport with a new memorandum of understanding between Australia and the Philippines securing the rights for international flights to Avalon. The MOU will allow Australian and ...
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In March, non-manufacturing purchasing manager index was 55.6 percent, an increase of 1.1 percentage points over the previous month. In view of different industries, non-manufacturing purchasing manager index of construction industry ...
Tags: Non-Manufacturing, PMI
The Transport Workers’ Union (TWU) has released what it calls alarming new evidence from a survey of more than 950 truck drivers across the country that graphically highlights the pressures in Australia’s most dangerous industry ...
Tags: Chain of Responsibility, TWU
The government should make an election commitment not to extend the carbon tax to trucking, the chairman of the Australian Trucking Association David Simon said in a televised address at the National Press Club. “In its Clean Energy ...
Tags: Road Groups, Carbon Tax
In February, non-manufacturing purchasing manager index was 54.5 percent, a decrease of 1.7 percentage points over the previous month. In view of different industries, non-manufacturing purchasing manager index of construction industry ...
Tracie Dickenson receiving her QTA Trucking Industry Woman of the Year Award in 2012. The Queensland Trucking Association Ltd (QTA Ltd) will celebrate International Women’s Day with a ‘Women in Road Transport’ breakfast ...
Tags: QTA Trucking Industry Woman of the Year Award, Road Freight Industry
The National Transport Commission (NTC) has advised of the passing of its chief executive Nick Dimopoulos. Mr Dimopoulos passed away on 8 February 2013 after an illness, surrounded by his family. Mr Dimopoulos’s professional career ...
Tags: NTC, mining, logistics, finance, infrastructure, company news
In January, non-manufacturing purchasing manager index was 56.2 percent, a slight increase of 0.1 percentage points over the previous month. In view of different industries, non-manufacturing purchasing manager index of construction ...
Tags: China, Non-Manufacturing, PMI, January
Photo courtesy of DAF Trucks Australia. One half of the Supermarket duopoly, Woolworths, has made encouraging public commitments to playing their part in tackling the lethal pressures in trucking while the other half, Coles, continues to ...
Tags: DAF Trucks, Australia, transport
China's Non-manufacturing PMI Increased in December National Bureau of Statistics of China China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing (CFLP) In December, non-manufacturing purchasing manager index was 56.1 percent, an increase of ...
Department of Service Statistics of NBS China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing (CFLP) In October, non-manufacturing purchasing manager index was 55.5 percent, 1.8 percentage points higher over the previous month, still staying ...
Tags: Non manufacturing PMI, PMI, Service