The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) has launched a new campaign to address the lack of basic training standards for new truck drivers. The lack of basic training standards is a problematic issue that goes beyond the ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts, truck
The Australasian Railway Association (ARA) has commended the NSW Government for delivering one of the most comprehensive state budgets for the rail industry this nation has seen. While no new projects have been announced, the budget ...
Tags: Service, NSW Rail, Rail Industry
The Victorian Transport Association (VTA) Academy has officially launched the Driver Cadetship Program. The launch was supported by Zurich Insurance, which affirmed it will reduce insurance premiums and restrictions for drivers undergoing ...
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The Transport Education Audit Compliance Health Organisation (TEACHO) research program for 2013-14 will focus on important transport industry issues such as worker health and safety, vehicle technology and professional development for truck ...
Coles has been a focus of the TWU's road transport campaign. Truck drivers and their employers presented a united front at the TWU National Council in Darwin in their calls for a greater focus on road safety in the supply chain. ARTIO ...
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ATA Scania 2010 Young Australian Truck Driver of the Year award winner Rick Lockwood. Students exploring potential careers can find detailed information on road transport jobs in the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace ...
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Plans announced by the Coalition to review the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal in the event of winning September’s Federal election ignore all of the evidence collected over twenty years showing a direct relationship between pay and ...
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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
Sage Products in Cary, IL began to notice a problem with shipping and delivery drivers entering its building without supervision, having full access to the warehouse floor. The truck drivers entering the building were not only a ...
Tags: Industrial Equipment, software
It is a common thing among the people who are involved in outfield trips like hiking, cliff hanging and other field trips to carry alert radios for the emergency purpose. These radios are important to be carried as they are a necessity for ...
Tags: alert radio, emergency, radio
Swedish automobile manufacturer Volvo has unveiled its Dynamic Steering for trucks that reduces the effort applied to steer the vehicle with electric motor fitted to the steering gear. The electric motor that generates 25nm of torque is ...
Penske Truck Leasing is retrofitting 5,000 of its 2012 and 2013 model semi tractors in its commercial truck rental fleet with new LED headlights from Truck-Lite. Penske says it's the first and only commercial rental operation to offer ...
Tags: LED lighting, LED headlights, LED
Australia’s first national heavy vehicle regulator, NHVR, opened for business today, initially managing NHVAS accreditation and PBS design and vehicle approvals. Later in 2013, once the Heavy Vehicle National Law is in place in the ...
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
The construction industry shed 2.2 million workers between January 2007 and last year. So now there's an overabundance of them eager for jobs, right? Wrong. Contractors are struggling with shortages of workers as the home-building market ...
Tags: construction industry, workers, shortage, construction