As I filled my car at $1.99 per litre to drive the 2.5 hour, 216 kilometre trip to Clunes, I wondered how that event might be affected by the closing of the Strait of Hormuz and/or fuel price gouging.
It’s time the road transport industry got its shit together and started to work together for the common cause, writes WA truckie Russel Walsh.
During the discussion, the ATA said trucking businesses and member associations are already reporting diesel price increases of between 30 and 50 cents per litre.
In a hard-hitting video message to industry and government today, Craig said many transport businesses would simply be unable to absorb such a dramatic increase in fuel costs.
Based at Tamworth in NSW, 27-year-old truckie Maddy Ames drives a Kenworth K104 for Carey’s Freight Lines. Maddy has been a driver for about three years and with Carey’s for the past nine months.
Following four years of construction, a major new 16-kilometre toll-free Sydney motorway will open to traffic in the early ...
The accolades keep coming for the workshop team at Scania’s company-owned Dandenong sales and service branch in Melbourne.
There will be changed traffic conditions in place as work begins to upgrade two important transport corridors in south-east ...
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When emergency services arrived at the Wilkins Road incident shortly after 2.30pm on March 8, the driver had left the scene.
As transport businesses are forced to navigate surging fuel costs, one operator had a rude awakening yesterday, when he learned that a truck had its diesel bled dry while parked in his yard.
PACCAR Parts has introduced new portable, heavy-duty Spill Kits designed to provide truck drivers with essential emergency spill response preparedness.