Governments must not impose additional regulatory burdens on businesses seeking to use highly automated vehicles. The ATA’s submission to the NTC on assuring automated vehicle safety voices strong opposition to any regulatory model that threatens trucking businesses or impedes continued innovation.
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Submissions
26 July 2017
The ATA argues that the current policy guiding the positive assessment of infrastructure investments (over $100 million) by Infrastructure Australia must be legislated. Current governance, taxation and institutional arrangements for the provision and funding of roads in Australia is simply not sustainable.
08 June 2017
Vehicles with conditional automation, where an automated driving system drives the vehicle for a sustained period of time but the human driver is ultimately required to maintain proper control of the vehicle, are not yet ready to be approved for use on Australian roads.
19 May 2017
Australia’s climate change policies should include a focus on boosting truck productivity as a cost effective opportunity to reduce emissions from heavy vehicles. This should include increasing width and length requirements, a whole of government approach to reducing barriers to increased use of high productivity freight vehicles, and for improving road access.
Increased heavy vehicle productivity can optimise the energy and fuel use of the entire freight system by reducing the number of trips required to move the freight task.
10 May 2017
The ATA has called for independent, no-blame, safety investigations for road crashes involving heavy or autonomous vehicles in its submission to the House of Representatives standing committee inquiry into the social issues relating to land-based driverless vehicles in Australia.
04 May 2017
Competitive neutrality should be applied to the National Heavy Vehicle Accreditation Scheme (NHVAS), the ATA has recommended in its submission to the Australian Government’s competitive neutrality review.
21 March 2017
In its submission to Australian Industry Standards (AIS) the ATA has called for safety and driver training to be the key focus for the proposed four year schedule of work for the TLI Transport and Logistics Training Package.
The submission was in response to the Transport and Logistics IRC Skills Forecast Key Findings Discussion Paper 2017.
10 March 2017
The Australian Government should not consider mandating new heavy vehicle emissions standards until it develops a revised regulation impact statement (RIS) which assess all viable policy options, includes all significant costs to industry, complies with the Government requirement that all increases in regulatory burden be offset, and appropriately considers the impact of the policy on rural and remote Australia.
09 March 2017
The ATA supports proposed changes by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) that would allow the continued use of 40 channel truck radios.
In 2011 limitations to the continued use of this equipment was introduced to reduce congestion, which has since been achieved.
07 February 2017
In its submission to the Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman (ASBFEO) inquiry into payment times and practices, the ATA has called for a mandatory code to prohibit extended payment times being forced on small businesses The trucking industry consists almost entirely of small businesses and is characterised by tight margins. The vast majority of the costs incurred by small trucking businesses must be met before they can bill their customers. This includes wages or personal living costs, fuel, tyres, finance costs, registration and maintenance.