Aussies go far
23rd August 1986, Page 13
23rd August 1986
Page 13
Page 13, 23rd August 1986
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• Trucks owned by carriers and hauliers, as opposed to ancillary operators, average 63,000km a year, according to published figures from the Australian Bureau of Transport Economics drawn from an investigation two years ago. "Of almost mind-boggling importance is the fact that trucks of two tonnes tare and over travel almost 10,000 million kilometres in a year with 39km in every 100km over long distances (100km or more)."
"Ile statistics provide excellent ammunition for any campaign which the road transport industry wages against government or vested bureaucratic interests, says Truck & Bus, June.