Review of the Australian Dangerous Goods Code

The Australian Dangerous Goods Code (ADGC) should not be extended to cover diesel, the ATA submission to the review of the code says. The National Transport Commission released a consultation regulatory impact statement with the results of the review in September...

Exposure draft HVNL amendment bill and regulations

Transport ministers should reduce the fines under the national truck law for minor fatigue breaches and paperwork mistakes, the ATA submission to the National Transport Commission on the exposure drafts of the planned Heavy Vehicle National Law Amendment Bill and...

ANZSCO review

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) should recognise the skills of Australia’s truck drivers by going ahead with changes to the Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO). The ABS is reviewing the classification. ANZSCO has five...

Improving crane licensing under the model WH&S laws

The ATA has supported a Safe Work Australia proposal for stricter licensing requirements for operating vehicle loading cranes (VLCs) with a capacity of less than 10 metre tonnes. At present, a VLC operator only needs a high risk work licence for cranes with a capacity...

Transport and infrastructure net zero consultation roadmap

The Australian Government should support the increased use of high productivity vehicles as a key part of its Transport and Infrastructure Net Zero Consultation Roadmap, the ATA’s response to the roadmap says. The submission argues that the Government should create a...

Unlocking Australia’s low carbon liquid fuel opportunity

Low carbon liquid fuels (LCLFs) are a sensible, realistic and economically viable solution to lowering the trucking industry’s carbon emissions and could significantly contribute to Australia’s carbon net-zero transformation goals, the joint ATA and Truck Industry...