The decision to scrap the RSRT is another sign the government is looking to fight Labor in the 2016 election campaign over workplace policy and industrial lawlessness,with a double dissolution election in prospect if the senate votes against re-establishing the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC).
PriceWaterhouseCoopers'review said the RSRT should be reformed and that the"abolition of the system would result in significant net benefit to the economy and community at large".
The federal government and truck owner-drivers argue a recent pay order by the RSRT threatens the livelihood of small operators by pricing them out of the market and enforcing much higher rates of pay.
And Mr Turnbull has promised the government will seek to pass legislation to block that pay order when parliament resumes and after it has dealt with a bill to re-establish ABCC.
But Labor and the Transport Workers Union argue higher rates of pay are essential to improving safety for truck drivers by reducing deadline pressure to drive long stretches without a rest.
Mr Turnbull said on Sunday the RSRT pay order would"drive owner drivers out of business. It will make them uncompetitive with other larger businesses. It is designed entirely and was designed entirely by Bill Shorten when he was in government to advantage the Transport Workers Union".
"We will,if re-elected,abolish the RSRT. It is not a tribunal that does anything effective to do with safety,it undermines owner operators,it undermines small-business,it undermines family businesses.