Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Owner Driver

    Road User Charge relief for industry

    Jun 11, 2020 4 minutes
    – Greg Bush

    DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development, Michael McCormack, has announced that the Federal Government will keep the Heavy Vehicle Road User Charge (RUC) at its current level for 2020 and 2021.

    The minister says the decision, announced on May 1, will save Australian truck owners and operators hundreds of dollars a year.

    That, along with transport ministers ageing to freeze heavy vehicle registration charges at their current levels until June 30 next year has been welcomed across the industry.

    “The Road User Charge, which is set to recover the heavy vehicle

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from Owner Driver

    Owner Driver3 min readCrime & Violence
    Change On The Way
    The recent news that Coles, one of the nation’s largest supermarkets, has written to suppliers to demand they cut costs rather than request price rises comes as no surprise. Inflation is the ‘word of the year’. It’s the genie the Federal Government w
    Owner Driver11 min read
    Back In The Game
    Penske people must be a patient lot, especially in our part of the world. For the best part of a decade, they’ve waited and waited, and waited some more, for their Star to do what stars generally do best – shine brightly! Yet, for reasons seemingly m
    Owner Driver4 min read
    Trivial Injustice
    I’ve had a very interesting communication from a concerned reader last week. He expressed his disgust (his word, not mine) that a police officer would write up Dan Roe up for accidently failing to tick his BFM box on one day. As he has explained and

    Related