Trucking
Trucks are big polluters, but can batteries make them cleaner?
In 2024, trucks emitted 22 million tonnes of CO2, and the freight industry is still debating how to decarbonise the long-haul routes.
- Angus Delaney
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Employees owed millions after ex-Brisbane Lions sponsor’s collapse
A Queensland-based trucking company collapsed with more than $30 million in debt, creditors have been told as they seek to recoup money owed to them.
- Cameron Atfield
Former Brisbane Lions sponsor goes bust, leaving 200 workers in limbo
A logistics company that just four years ago was the Lions’ major sponsor has gone into voluntary administration, placing about 200 jobs across the country at risk.
- Cameron Atfield
Bigger trucks, night runs: Port’s plan to handle doubling traffic draws fury
Benefits of the West Gate Tunnel could be negated by larger vehicles servicing Australia’s busiest container port, council says of ‘lazy’ strategy.
- Sophie Aubrey
Blinged-up trucks converge on South Bank for Brisbane Truck Show’s heavy vehicle bonanza
A competition for the country’s most beautiful prime movers will debut at the biggest automotive exhibition in the southern hemisphere.
- Nick Dent
- Exclusive
- Pollution
Truck trade-in scheme fails to spend a cent, receives just two failed applications
A $15 million truck trade-in scheme that promised to reduce pollution in Melbourne’s inner-west has not paid a single grant 18 months after it first opened.
- Kieran Rooney
Drivers should be using this Sydney motorway about now. It’s on track to be three years late
A giant sinkhole above the M6 has had major consequences for the cost and completion of the multibillion-dollar underground motorway that will link to WestConnex.
- Matt O'Sullivan
Old Melbourne Market site transformed to take trucks off local roads
Making the site available to shipping companies is expected to drive down truck movements across inner-west suburbs.
- Kieran Rooney
- Opinion
- Cars
Why Australia should never be overrun by Musk trucks
The allure of the Cybertruck’s design must not overshadow the real risks it poses.
- Jacob Elmasry
- Exclusive
- Road safety
Old airstrip and a few sheep paddocks could help shrink Australia’s road toll
Big trucks will barrel down a former runway at up to 100km/h under a $30 million plan to improve road safety.
- Catherine Naylor
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