WA’s hard border is set to undergo its greatest test as NSW surges ahead in vaccinations in a bid to ease its lockdown and manage COVID-19 within the community by September.
The regulator is undertaking a national roadshow promoting Advanced Fatigue Management,an initiative that allows participants to “set their own work and rest hours” rather than abiding by the standard rules and regulations.
Authorities are still issuing warnings,instead of $194 fines,for trucks that use Pennant Hills Road instead of the toll road - more than four months since it opened.
Farmers in far north-west Victoria are angry about the government’s failure to standardise freight train lines as part of the Murray Basin Rail project.
A new study from Monash University has found truck drivers have worse mental and physical health on many measures than the general population.
Border districts and truck drivers were left in shock at the statewide restrictions amid a COVID-19 outbreak in Adelaide.
Freight operators say the state government is derailing its own policies and pushing more trucks onto Sydney roads.
Manufacturers were desperate to move stock out of Victoria before restrictions came into place,while thousands of tonnes of supplies were being trucked into the state to meet an expected surge.
The Australian trucking industry says state governments have adopted different COVID-19 test requirements that are causing confusion and chaos.
South Australia does not want Victorians crossing the border. So what happens to the trucks that haul thousands of logs from the state to a Victorian port?
The infringements came as the state recorded 13 new COVID-19 cases,for a total of 965. Health authorities say 368 of these had now recovered.