The Freight Industry
- We are experiencing rising costs, and so are our customers and suppliers with the cost of everything going up along the supply chain. No longer can customers rely on efficiency gains to meet their savings budgets and their senior management must respond to that!
- Fuel prices are at unprecedented levels, fluctuating up and down and making cost models and fuel levies work overtime. The most important consequence of this rise and fall is that it causes uncertainty in businesses & makes it extremely difficult to manage cash flows.
- Businesses also have to deal with Carbon Trading & learn how to calculate & control their exposures.
Safety is also a number one issue – Zero Tolerance is the only acceptable level! There is a total industry commitment on workplace safety. The VTA has been actively working on many major items on the safety agenda, including:
- The launch of the Driver Distraction Campaign
- Improving rail crossing safety
- Addressing the implementation of the new Fatigue laws
- Drug & Alcohol management
- Developing Industry codes of conduct.
A key factor in the safety agenda is the partnership taken between Industry and the Transport Workers Union in working towards a Zero Tolerance level. This is unique and vital if safety is to be adopted across the industry.
Other important issues confronting the industry include:
- The need for identifying infrastructure improvements
- The promotion of the industry both through the media and other PR initiatives. We must get a change in the public and media perception of the industry
- Assessing and understanding the State Governments Freight Strategy.
We must change the way we do business. There are many projects that are going to be put forward, with immediate and low cost options a key component, though some are long term issues.
The industry can do a lot for itself now. The significant things we achieve now are:
- Working with customers to get the best possible outcomes
- Sharing information with others in the industry, including competitors
- Maximize our effective use of technologies, and sharing all the efficiencies it brings to us
- Managing the impact of the industry and its actions on the community
- Changing the way we do things and measuring the outcomes.
The Freight Industry
- We are experiencing rising costs, and so are our customers and suppliers with the cost of everything going up along the supply chain. No longer can customers rely on efficiency gains to meet their savings budgets and their senior management must respond to that!
- Fuel prices are at unprecedented levels, fluctuating up and down and making cost models and fuel levies work overtime. The most important consequence of this rise and fall is that it causes uncertainty in businesses & makes it extremely difficult to manage cash flows.
- Businesses also have to deal with Carbon Trading & learn how to calculate & control their exposures.
Safety is also a number one issue – Zero Tolerance is the only acceptable level! There is a total industry commitment on workplace safety. The VTA has been actively working on many major items on the safety agenda, including:
- The launch of the Driver Distraction Campaign
- Improving rail crossing safety
- Addressing the implementation of the new Fatigue laws
- Drug & Alcohol management
- Developing Industry codes of conduct.
A key factor in the safety agenda is the partnership taken between Industry and the Transport Workers Union in working towards a Zero Tolerance level. This is unique and vital if safety is to be adopted across the industry.
Other important issues confronting the industry include:
- The need for identifying infrastructure improvements
- The promotion of the industry both through the media and other PR initiatives. We must get a change in the public and media perception of the industry
- Assessing and understanding the State Governments Freight Strategy.
We must change the way we do business. There are many projects that are going to be put forward, with immediate and low cost options a key component, though some are long term issues.
The industry can do a lot for itself now. The significant things we achieve now are:
- Working with customers to get the best possible outcomes
- Sharing information with others in the industry, including competitors
- Maximize our effective use of technologies, and sharing all the efficiencies it brings to us
- Managing the impact of the industry and its actions on the community
- Changing the way we do things and measuring the outcomes.