Roads minister reduces paperwork burden on truck drivers, announcing the abolishment of four amendment notices
By Brad Gardner | May 23, 2012
NSW has moved to reduce the paperwork burden on truck drivers by abolishing the need for them to carry four types of amendment notices.
Roads Minister Duncan Gay says drivers no longer need to carry class 2 amendment notices for road trains, converter dolly combinations and car carrier combinations. Gay has also ended the need for drivers to carry the 19 metre B-double Mass Limit Amendment Notice.
He dubbed the changes the ‘Finemore Reforms’, saying respected trucking identify Ron Finemore has worked with the government to ease the administrative burden on the trucking industry.
“Ron Finemore has been very efficient in helping us to identify and cut red tape, a key election promise of this government,” Gay says.
“Indeed, one of the first things I did in office was to abolish the requirement for operators to carry the Class 2 B-double Notice.”
Gay says work is also underway on finalising a volumetric loading scheme for the livestock transport industry, adding that it will be “introduced in NSW in the coming months”. He has previously stated any scheme would be capped at 68 tonnes.
Gay says a program called Bridges for the Bush is being developed to progressively replace or upgrade key bridges to remove load restrictions on heavy vehicles.
He says NSW has the oldest stock of timber, steel and concrete bridges in the country.
“The government is also reviewing the suitability of allowing safer, modernised road trains to operate east of the Newell Highway on key freight routes…By modernised I mean B and AB-triples and road trains fitted with certified road friendly suspended tri-axle dollies,” Gay says.
The official names of the abolished notices are:
• Class 2 Road Train Amendment Notice
• Class 2 Converter Dolly Combination Amendment Notice
• Class 2 Car Carrier Combination Amendment Notice