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Dec 18, 2024 | 
bigrigs.com.au | James Graham
Grieving truckie’s wife Delphine Mugridge has vowed to keep fighting for nationwide adoption of South Australia’s groundbreaking changes to the heavy vehicle licensing of drivers from overseas.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
bigrigs.com.au | James Graham
The takeover in April of all heavy vehicle regulatory services in Queensland has contributed to a $5 million dip in the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator’s (NHVR) total surplus for the last financial year. In its recently released 2023-24 Annual Report, the NHVR recorded a surplus of $5,017,000 in 2023-24, down from $10,200,000 in the 2022-23 period.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
bigrigs.com.au | James Graham |James Graham
A Melbourne port operator has shared dramatic video footage of the pro-Palestinian protesters attacking one of his trucks at the Victoria International Container Terminal in Webb Dock last Friday. The operator, who preferred not to be named, said he was $2000 out of pocket due to two damaged tyres and the time the truck had to be parked up. “The police were supposed to call me on Friday or the weekend but no one did so I went to the Footscray police and did a statement.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
bigrigs.com.au | James Graham
Truckies will soon have 14 more green reflector parking bays in southern NSW, thanks to tireless lobbying by concept creator and long-time driver, Rod Hannifey. Transport for NSW (TfNSW) confirmed to Big Rigs that it’s in the process of finalising the exact spots but did release a list below of the highways the bays would be located.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
bigrigs.com.au | James Graham
The irony of the dramatic Yatala blaze that wiped out half his fleet was not lost on RoadBees Transport boss Sonny Nugent this week. As investigations continued into the cause of Monday’s ferocious Gold Coast fire – Nugent says officials have ruled out foul play – the managing director revealed to Big Rigs that all his trucks and trailers should have already been gone from the site.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
bigrigs.com.au | James Graham
Team Global Express truckie Boyde Pirihi couldn’t believe his luck when the bollards came down and he was waved on to the $1.162 billion Gympie Bypass in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Pirihi reckons he was the first truckie to drive along the eagerly anticipated 26km stretch of road, the fourth and final stage of 62 kilometres of upgrades to the Bruce Highway, which began in 2009.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
bigrigs.com.au | James Graham
Transport bosses have welcomed proposed reductions to some driver penalties under the new-look Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL) – but two we spoke to were adamant they don’t go far enough. After a review of 349 offences, the National Transport Commission is recommending to transport ministers that there be 50 penalties increased and 21 reduced as part of delivering a HVNL that is more risk-based and “proportionate” to harm.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
bigrigs.com.au | James Graham
Truckies are taking a wait-and-see approach to the difference the Gympie Bypass will make when it opens this month – possibly as early as this Friday – but everyone we spoke to is looking forward to driving it. The $1.162 billion project has involved constructing a new 26-kilometre, four-lane divided highway between the existing Bruce Highway interchange at Woondum, just south of Gympie, and Curra.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
bigrigs.com.au | James Graham
Signage telling truckies the Nass Road breakdown pad in Charton can be used for long-term storage of trailers and dollies is causing chaos for other drivers, said watchdog Wes Walker. Walker recently watched one frustrated truckie nab the last park on the busy Queensland site near Toowoomba that he said has rapidly degenerated into a free-for-all depot. “I’m getting the feedback now that you can’t get a park there at all – a lot of drivers are pulling their hair out it’s got so bad” Walker said.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
bigrigs.com.au | James Graham
An industry-backed road safety trailer, which was relaunched in 2019 with a $400,000 taxpayer investment, has found a new home after sitting idle for several months. Australian Trucking Association (ATA) director Andy Divall handed over the keys to the custom-built exhibition trailer to On The Road Media in Canberra today for a confidential price.
