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Hi all,
This will be the final report from me on the Forums.altnews website, the new association is now in place and is called the 'National Road Freighters Association Inc' www.nrfa.asn.au all further news will be available on that site.
I thank the webmaster of forums.altnews Clemens Vermeulen for his support on behalf of all truck drivers around Australia and my own personal thanks, Clemens help made it easier to get information out to everyone and without that support we would have been stumbling around in the dark.

Hello all,
The ball is starting to roll; The new association will be called 'National Road Freighters Association'.
We are planning to hold the inaugural meeting in Toowoomba on the 2nd of November2008 at the Toowoomba City Golf Club at 10am everyone is welcome.
The newly appointed board will be endorsed at that meeting, we still need two delegates from W.A., S.A., Tas, and one from N.T. we have a good cross section of directors and the National executive is now in place.

Hi all,
As you may know we are working on getting the new association up and running, thing don't happen over night unfortunately, however we need to get it right, the naming of the new association isn’t without it’s problems as a lot of name combinations are taken so our choice will be limited, email me if you come up with a name we can use that describes what we represent.

We are planning to hold the inaugural meeting in Toowoomba early in Nov this is yet to be confirmed, I will post it on this site as the information comes to hand.

The Transport industry has no friends on either side of politics or any support from our so called peak Transport Industry Associations or the Transport Workers Union;

Hi all,
As I have returned back to the real world, I think things will deteriorate from here on as the new charges and regulations start to bite.

On reflection of the shutdown I believe it was a demonstration of an industry divided by those who couldn’t afford to shutdown, those who were bullied into not shutting down and those who did shutdown, how we overcome the negatives here I’m not sure.

NATIONAL ROAD TRANSPORT FORUM

TRANSPORT INDUSTRY SHUTDOWN
Transport operators can now choose to work

After a crisis meeting today Chief Organiser of the nationwide transport
shutdown and NRTF spokesperson, Mr Mick Pattel, has urged all supporters
of the shutdown to consider returning to work

"Round one is over and the arrogant Bligh government has sent their
transport minister on holidays, making it impossible for our issues to
be heard," a frustrated Mr Pattel said this afternoon.

"The appropriate Ministers in Qld and NSW

Hi Everyone
The shutdown is in a holding pattern as we we regroup, the next plan will be to pull a media stunt that will put this on the front page of all media, that may bring out the T.V. interviews we did on Monday.

Clare and I will be meeting Tim Nicoll and Vaughan Johnson Wednesday I also had a meeting with Bob Katter today, he was lobbying the TWU for their support, I will be talking to Mark Crossdale from the TWU tomorrow.

Hi All,

The shutdown is proving to be a success in terms of numbers, and I believe that the numbers will improve over the next 24 hours.

The suggestion that we don't take safety seriously is just a poor attempt to label the industry as irresponsible, nothing could be further from the truth, that is an insult to hard working people in the road transport industry.

Hello Everyone,
WE ARE NOW IN SHUTDOWN MODE
The media blanket has been lifted and the good news is that we will be on Sunrise tomorrow, with coverage from Nine, ABC and Win TV as well, we are receiving news that major carriers in the south will not be loading any freight out on Monday, this kind of support across the country is being reported on a regular basis, the greater the impact the quicker we will achieve results, then everyone can go back to work.

Hi Everyone,
The last couple of days have been very eventful with threats of being charged as a terrorist and threat of legal action from transport and commercial businesses for damage occasioned by the ‘Industrial action’ as it is called by the author of the pro-forma letter on company letter heads, the letter originated from the same source and it’s not hard to work out where it came from.