The Australian Trucking Association (ATA) and Australian Logistics Council (ALC) have put out a call for more real-world input from truck operators.
The call comes ahead of the new trucking master code, aimed at simplifying Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL) compliance for businesses.
The ATA and the Australian Logistics Council are seeking more real-world input from trucking operators.
“We are basing the code on the real world expertise of people in the industry,” master code project manager Peter Elliot said.
“We held a workshop at Trucking Australia 2017; we ran a writing workshop last week; and this week we consulted consignors and consignees at the ALC Safety Summit.
“We have got a lot of feedback already, but we particularly need more input from operators about best practice maintenance.
“I’m really looking forward to running our next workshop, at TMC, which will specifically focus on this area.”
ATA Chief of Staff Bill McKinley told the ALC summit that the code should reduce the number of audits that operators experience.
“I was talking to one of our member companies just this week,” McKinley said.
“The company goes through about seven days of accreditation, standards or government audits per year.
“They have an additional 14 days of customer audits, including prep time, and 12 days of desktop audits.
“These endless audits have to stop,” he said.
The ALC and ATA need your views on what works – and what doesn’t – in speed management; fatigue; mass, dimension and load restraint; and maintenance.