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Queensland freight plan sets 70 actions, with rail rebates and NAAS rollout among the first moves
Queensland’s new five-year freight plan sets 70 actions, including a three-year rail-container rebate, heavy-vehicle access reform and a State of Freight Snapshot.
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$26m to take freight off the road: how Australia’s new rail freight subsidy works
The Commonwealth is offering rail operators up to $26 million to shift existing road freight onto rail. The scheme is also testing something bigger: whether per-container incentive payments can rapidly change how Australian freight moves.
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Cootamundra–Albury rail line to close for 96 hours during Inland Rail works
Rail services between Cootamundra and Albury will be suspended from 11 to 15 September for Inland Rail works, but individual freight-service impacts have not been published.
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Auditor finds 48% of Victoria’s state roads in poor condition as freight task grows
Victoria’s Auditor-General found 48% of state roads were poor or very poor by remaining useful life in 2024 as defects outpaced repairs and freight volumes grew.
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TMR says NAAS telematics could cost a small operator $47,260 — and says savings can repay it within a year
Queensland heavy-haulage operators considering NAAS are being told to plan for a significant telematics investment, while TMR says savings can recover the cost.
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New PBS pavement rule could lift the 85-tonne A-double constraint — while existing approvals stay
NHVR’s proposed revised Pavement Horizontal Loading Standard could remove a current constraint for some future PBS designs while existing approvals continue under the proposed transition.
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Queensland opens NAAS preview ahead of major low-loader access change
Queensland low-loader operators can now test the National Automated Access System ahead of a November rollout that will make automated vehicle-specific access the default pathway for many eligible movements.
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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.