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Queensland / National Road Transport Forum

Mon, 30/06/2008 - 11:07 — NRTF

Subject: Queensland / National Road Transport Forum

To whom it may concern

The links below will give you the information you need to know about the new driving laws and registration increases about to be introduced; I believe that transport operators and the rural sector will feel the impact of these new regulations very quickly as we will need to change the way we do business at the moment.

Add to this the new registration charges and fuel excise increases and being ‘On the land’ will become too expensive for many small to medium Graziers and Farmers.

Click on these links or paste them into your web browser and check it out.

This one is about Driving Hours Regulations, links to the PDF information sheets are at the bottom of the page.
http://www.ntc.gov.au/ViewPage.aspx?page=A02316405400210020

This Site is about the increases in registration charges
http://www.ntc.gov.au/ViewPage.aspx?page=A02300407400170020

Add to this the increases and indexation of fuel excise to CPI due to be introduced on the First of January next year and we have an inflationary factor that will forever increasingly continue to erode the value of primary production exports and place more pressure on remote rural communities.

Action is needed now; the Transport Industry is the only industry in Australia that can make the Government sit up and take notice.

Join the fight for survival contact me and be a part of the meetings to be held around the country.

Mick Pattel
mob: 0429-413-161
email: kevp...@bigpond.net.au

WITHOUT TRUCKS AUSTRALIA STOPS

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Tue, 01/07/2008 - 12:15
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Steven Geoffrey Selby (not verified)
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meeting in townsville

Mick,
I congratulate you and the others that took a stand at the meeting to eject the members of the ALDODA from the forum if they had attended as everybody else did to bring a united message not to push their own barrow, then the result for them would have been different. Having grown up in trucks with dad as kid then with dad as a buisiness partner and now as a driver for a great firm driving interstate, what we need is a united educated voice, not a thousand different voices shouting all sorts of rubbish to who-ever will listen.
I support the method of staying home not blocking the highways, as this will be a more productive in highlighting what major role we play in everyday life.
If you could e-mail the list of demands that were tabled on the day of the meeting i will gladly foward them on to everyone i know to inform them be they truck driver, owner operator or just a friend of mine so we all have a better understanding of what went on at townsville.
many thanks.
Steven Selby

Tue, 01/07/2008 - 17:31
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NRTF
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Hi Steve
The list is now on the site and you can 'cut & Paste' it into Word Docs

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