PRIME MOVER February 2021 MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2021 $11.00, ISSN 1838-2320, u oy industry Innovation Fleet: Container Fumigation Services Fleet: Hanson Feature: Goldsprings Heavy Havlage Technology: Geotab Spotlight: Future of Trucking Report Test Drive: UD Croner ollll MII, Personality: Michael May Delivery: Isuzy DMox 49-1C THE PEOPLE & PRODUCTS THAT MAKE TRANSPORT MOVEMEET THE TEAM {its products and showcases a deep poo! of edivodal talent with a unique imix ofexperenceand knowledge. 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The vfio consumption average ‘per week is anywhere between 2.25 and 2.35e={e) CONCRETE PLANS Prime Feature Stories FLEET FOCUS 24 Euro Vision Advanced technology looms large at Tony Innaimo Transport where considerable investment in recent months has gone into increasing its capacity for processing both freight and data. In accordance with this plan of action, new DAF commercial vehicles have been added to complement an already established Kenworth flet. 30 Concrete Plans Inaddition to being one of the major players i in Australia, Hanson is one of if not the largest customer of ‘Madk Trucks. The recent purchase of 15 new Metro-Liners for its Queensland operations renews its long-term investments in commercial vehiles and reinforces its ongoing commitment to safety technology in the agitator application nfrastructure 34 Coming Clean ‘Asa niche essential service, Container Fumigation Services in Melbourne is dependent on quality commercial whicles. The challenges of tough 2020 have been counterweighed, in pat, by an informed recent investment in four new MAN trucks. TRUCK & TECH 42 Haul Rise ‘Heavy-duty truck axle manufacturer Meritor has introduced its P610 hub-reduction drive axle to the Australian market. Goldsprings Heavy Haulage has specified the product in a new Kenworth K200 8x4 prime mover. ‘TEST DRIVE SO Making Every Moment Count ‘The UD Groner is a prime example of the progress of globalisation in commercial vehicle manufacturing during the past decade. Regular Run O6 From the Editor O08 Prime Mover News 58 Personality GO Prime Movers & Shakers 63 Delivery 7S Australian Road Transport Suppliers’ Association SO National Heavy Vehicle Regulator 83 Australian Logistics Council 84 Trucking Industry Council 85 Victorian Transport Association 86 Peter Shields’ Number Cruncheens William Craske Editor ‘Truckmaker members ofthe European Automobile Manufacturers! Association {(ACEA) have pledged to phase out traditional combustion engines as they renew commitments to hydrogen, battery technology and deaa fuels. A joint declaration signed by 16 major cas, van, ruc and bus manufacturers ofthe Brussels based group, where the European Union is not coinedentally also base includes DAF Trucks, Daimler “Trucks, ord Trucks, IVECO, MAN Truck {& Bus, Scania and Volvo Group. Alliance members, under the non-binding agreement, agre wo cease manufacturing commercial vehicles that rely on diesel in readiness for carbon-neutality by 2040. A decade earlier than originally planned. ‘The group is also calling for a higher carbon tax in the EU, to disincentivise investments into fossil fuel technology. ‘The goal is possible — cue the caveat — Declaration of Co-dependence providing the right charging/refuelling infrastructure is built, Heres a hint, they don't intend to pay for it. In the UK the climate goals of converting all vehicles to electricity by 2050, would requite two times the total annual world cobalt production. The Manhattan Institute ‘contends that this would equate to nearly the entire world production of neodymium, three quarters ofthe world's lithium production and at least half of the world’s copper production. Those volumes are based on figures reported on in 2018. But you get the picture. While no one country currently has market dominance in copper, China at present procluces nearly half ofthe ‘world’s lithium and over 85 per cent of the global supply of cobalt, the element ‘most critical inthe batteries that will power the en masse production of electric ‘commercial vehicles. In the commodities market, China is responsible for mining 70 percent of the ave eatths on the planet. This includes neodymium, ‘Without itn electric motor is rendered. useless, China also excels in man-made carbon ‘emissions. It's the world’s biggest polluter (its not even close) and will be allowed tunder its Paris Agreement arrangement to continue increasing its emissions tuntil 2040, at the same time the cabal of European Union member companies are ‘going to wean themselves off fossil-fuel Powered models, apparently for good. But for who's good? ‘A massive upscaling of capabilities ‘manufacture battery and fuel cll electric tucks in less than two decades will need he lofty neon ambitions of the ACEA are to be achieved, No one at the German-funded Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research at the minute seems to have come up with, 8 solution to suppress the carbon dioxide emissions generated for the electricity production caused by renewables in addition to those requited to replace fossil fuels to generate power forthe grid. Und 2020 Australia’s foreign policy interactions with China were not dissimilar to many other western, countries and rested, to quote Victor Davis Hanson, “on a rare alignment of both progressive and commercial self interests” In this continuum, as freight companies are savaged by tariffs on barley and wine, while the coal and logging industies ate held to ransom on their export, difficult to ascertain how these interests coincide with those of the Australian taxpayer. The world’s second biggest economy is still considered a developing nation by the United Nations. It will be interesting to watch how established ‘commercial enterprises such as the European arms of global OEMS, at the behest of the PU, further interfold with China, whose rise in technology and manufacturing was necessary to its systematic patent and copyright infringements. Aw jam of manufacturing since it was, ‘mastered at scale afer the industrial revolution is tha it aims to achieve a standardisation to maximise the volume of units produced for tasks assigned it by market demand. Many of us are tying to find the demand, inthis situation, other than the one activists have been ‘making upon a soapbox of science, which thas increasingly been hijacked as a tool of ideology al while ignoring the raw material costs of going green Mebbe