If it’s flooded forget it
There is a significant amount of roads closed across southern and eastern Australia due to heavy rainfall and flooding. The NHVR is urging all heavy vehicle operators to take steps to ensure safe travel when operating in and around areas affected by heavy rainfall and flooding.
Where possible operators should avoid travelling in impacted zones, however if required be aware of local emergency access arrangements.
Heavy vehicle access across flood-affected areas
Heavy vehicle operators should take the following steps when accessing flood-affected areas.
First NHVR prohibition order against Director
After thousands of driver records were found destroyed in a chemical bath of weed killer, a former transport company director has been convicted and fined in a South Australian court, following a lengthy investigation by South Australia Police.
PBS applications to be made simpler and faster
The National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) will be introducing changes to the Performance Based Standards (PBS) scheme Vehicle Approval (VA) document to reduce administrative burden for industry and provide a better customer experience.
NHVR CEO Sal Petroccitto said the changes would remove some of the unnecessary complexity in getting a PBS vehicle approved, meaning we can get safer, smarter, more productive vehicles on our roads sooner.
Origin Energy Services Limited to spend $380,000 after failing to respond to infringement offence
New notice to improve efficiencies and remove cost burden of common truck and dog combinations
The National Class 3 20m Long 3-axle Truck and 4-axle Dog Trailer Mass and Dimension Exemption Notice 2022 (No.1) released today will allow operators to use this combination on approved networks without having to go through the Performance Based Standards (PBS) approval process.
NHVR CEO Sal Petroccitto said the notice was an important first step in moving ‘mature’ combinations out of the PBS scheme and into the ‘normal’ regulatory framework – helping to get safer and more productive vehicles on the road.
$3.5 million in industry projects to improve heavy vehicle safety
New NHVR headquarters opens in Parramatta
Heavy vehicle safety services in New South Wales have a new home following the official opening of the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator’s (NHVR) Parramatta headquarters.
Minister for Regional Transport and Roads Sam Farraway opened the new office today as part of the transition of state-based heavy vehicle services to the NHVR.
Don’t #uck With A Truck message hits the road
NHVR AND QPS: Drive safely with trucks towing oversize loads this Queensland Road Safety Week
The National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) and Queensland Police Service (QPS) have launched the Sharing our Roads with Oversize Loads campaign, with a series of videos to show road users how to stay safe when driving near trucks towing oversize loads this Queensland Road Safety Week.
Police escort more than six thousand heavy vehicles with an oversize or overmass load, such as mining or construction equipment, in Queensland each year.
Victorian pre-approved maps to support national access automation
The National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) has welcomed the Victorian Government’s release of eight new pre-approved crane maps as an important step towards delivering national automated heavy vehicle access outcomes.
NHVR CEO Sal Petroccitto said that the NHVR’s National Spatial Platform will provide a single national dynamic map of state and local roads, providing transparency of all allowable access arrangements.
New South Australia notice a win for Class 3 operators
Heavy Vehicle National Law guide for legal practitioners
NHVR to regulate heavy vehicles in NSW from today
NSW transition of heavy vehicle services
New industry code of practice released for Tasmanian agricultural and horticultural industries
NHVR and LBRCA: Share the road this National Farm Safety Week
Roadworthy Heavy Vehicles Made Easy! Workshop in Jamestown
Operator to spend over $54,000 on mass education initiatives
National PBS High Productivity Notice released in NSW
Healthy Heads calls on industry to drive conversations and ask, “R U OK?”
R U OK? and Healthy Heads in Truck & Sheds Foundation (HHTS) have teamed up to ensure people in the road transport, warehousing and logistics industries know when and how to meaningfully connect and genuinely ask, “are you OK?”
Today, 17 May the Foundation launches ‘R U OK? in Trucks & Sheds’, a day of action to start driving conversations for ongoing cultural change and to shine a light on the need to have these conversations, every day of the year.