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Three Mainfreight companies filed up to 355 days late. ASIC says the problem was the deadline, not the accounts
Three Australian Mainfreight group companies each paid a $198,000 infringement notice over alleged late FY2025 financial reporting. ASIC says all three reports are now lodged and it found no content deficiency through this enforcement action.
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The warehouse drone that works at minus 29 degrees — so people don’t have to
Corvus Robotics has built an autonomous inventory drone rated to live and work in freezers down to minus 29°C. The bigger logistics story is what happens when routine stock counting no longer requires a person in the aisle.
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Forget programming the robot. This Sydney-linked startup wants workers to teach it on the job
A robotics company built in London and Sydney says line workers can teach machines by demonstration and correction. If that model scales, the next warehouse automation skill may look less like coding and more like showing a new worker the job.
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500 Tesla Semis are going into one freight network. The hard part is everything around the truck
Einride plans to deploy 500 Tesla Semis for Amazon and other customers across North America. The headline is electric trucks; the more important freight story is the software, charging and utilisation system needed to make hundreds of them work.
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85,000 driverless deliveries later, autonomous freight is getting hard to call an experiment
Gatik says it has completed 85,000 fully driverless orders and locked in more than US$600 million in contracted revenue. The Australian question is not whether autonomy can move freight, but where it would make commercial sense first.
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The 50-metre driverless truck is already working — and Australia should be watching
A Kodiak autonomous prime mover is hauling three trailers across the Permian Basin. For Australians accustomed to road trains, the remarkable part isn’t the number of trailers. It’s the empty driver’s seat.
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FedEx workers stopped work over job security. The unresolved argument is who controls automation
FedEx workers staged two-hour stoppages after bargaining put job security, contractors, AI and automation into the same dispute. FedEx says it remains committed to safety and secure, sustainable employment, but its response did not address the proposed technology protections in detail.
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Remove the loading zone. The freight task doesn’t disappear
Australia’s cities are squeezing delivery space while depending on more freight than ever. Austroads study author Phil Bullock says the cost of that blind spot can be circling vehicles, longer deliveries and bad freight access locked into developments for decades.
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Hawkins is back on the road. The key question is still unanswered: what changed?
NHVR says identified safety risks justified stopping Hawkins Transport, then lifted the prohibition after a compliance pathway was agreed. It has acknowledged remote freight consequences — but has not disclosed what changed enough to allow operations to resume.
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Australia missed its first heavy-vehicle permit target. Now NAAS has to prove the bigger promise
The national project was meant to halve heavy-vehicle permit demand within three years. That milestone has been missed — but the system promising to automate most permit decisions is now moving into real-world rollout.