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The forgotten sector

Last month, eight members of the National Road Freighters Association (NRFA) attended the Australian Trucking Association (ATA) conference – Trucking Australia 22 – on the Gold Coast. You can either sit on the outside and complain or you can go in and have a say. We had two others there in their own right – one was a nominee for one of the awards and we ended up signing up another member during the event.

We went with a specific aim – to ask the ATA and other state associations if they would support the recommendations for

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