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border-top: 0px solid transparent; border-left: 0px solid transparent; border-bottom: 0px solid transparent; border-right: 0px solid transparent;" valign="top"><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-top:5px; padding-bottom:5px;"><![endif]--> <div class="col num12" style="min-width: 320px; max-width: 800px; display: table-cell; vertical-align: top; width: 800px;"> <div class="col_cont" style="width:100% !important;"> <!--[if (!mso)&(!IE)]><!--> <div style="border-top:0px solid transparent; border-left:0px solid transparent; border-bottom:0px solid transparent; border-right:0px solid transparent; padding-top:5px; padding-bottom:5px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"> <!--<![endif]--> <!--[if mso]><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td style="padding-right: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif"><![endif]--> <div style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;line-height:1.8;padding-top:10px;padding-right:10px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:10px;"> <div class="txtTinyMce-wrapper" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.8; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; mso-line-height-alt: 22px;"> <p style="margin: 0; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.8; word-break: break-word; mso-line-height-alt: 23px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><span style="font-size: 13px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px;">With the impacts of COVID-19 over the last two years, it is more apparent than ever how heavily reliant communities are on road freight to have essential supplies delivered into communities. This clearly demonstrates the critical role road freight performs in our country, and it will continue to be the ‘last mile’ delivery option for years to come. The recent issues with flood, fire, cyclones, and the pandemic in Australia continue to highlight this and also how dependable the road freight industry is to keep trucks moving.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.8; word-break: break-word; mso-line-height-alt: 23px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.8; word-break: break-word; mso-line-height-alt: 23px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><span style="font-size: 13px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px;">Queensland Trucking Association, Chief Executive Officer, Gary Mahon has spoken out in response to commentary that places blame on trucks for causing accidents. He said, “Yet when there are issues on roads due to accidents involving trucks, there is an outcry to get trucks off the road. This type of knee-jerk reaction is ill informed and based on an assumption that trucks are always at fault with accidents.”</span></p> <p style="margin: 0; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.8; word-break: break-word; mso-line-height-alt: 23px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.8; word-break: break-word; mso-line-height-alt: 23px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><span style="font-size: 13px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px;">“In the National Transport Insurance, 2021 NTARC Major Accident Investigation Report, the facts reveal, where a car and a truck were involved in a fatal crash, the car was the at-fault party almost 80% of the time. This statistic quashes any suggestion that it is trucks that are the problem on our roads”, Mr Mahon said.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.8; word-break: break-word; mso-line-height-alt: 23px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><span style="font-size: 13px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px;"><em>Source: NTI, </em><a href="https://www.nti.com.au/getmedia/aa1a1adf-d573-49ed-a8aa-16c81b2b8813/NTI-NTARC-Report-2021.pdf" style="color: #1e1eaa;"><em>Major accident investigation: 2021 report</em></a><em>. Brisbane, 2021. 17.</em></span></p> <p style="margin: 0; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.8; word-break: break-word; mso-line-height-alt: 23px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.8; word-break: break-word; mso-line-height-alt: 23px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><span style="font-size: 13px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px;">The recent comments by Queensland Member for Barron River Craig Crawford in relation to getting trucks off the Kuranda Range in North Queensland, is yet another knee-jerk response.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.8; word-break: break-word; mso-line-height-alt: 23px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.8; word-break: break-word; mso-line-height-alt: 23px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><span style="font-size: 13px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px;">Mr Mahon said, “As an industry we reject this type of reaction without any verified justification or analysis. To ban trucks from the Kuranda Range would have a far-reaching impact on the region and substantially increase costs to the Tablelands community with trucks travelling an extra three hours over 230km one-way to deliver freight. This has major impacts on input costs as well as a number of other impacts for the region.“</span></p> <p style="margin: 0; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.8; word-break: break-word; mso-line-height-alt: 23px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.8; word-break: break-word; mso-line-height-alt: 23px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><span style="font-size: 13px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px;">The Tablelands Region is a vital transport and services hub for northern Australia with major infrastructure investments made by large transport businesses in recent years to manage the increase in freight volumes.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.8; word-break: break-word; mso-line-height-alt: 23px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.8; word-break: break-word; mso-line-height-alt: 23px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><span style="font-size: 13px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px;">Key impacts of limiting truck movements up the Kuranda Range:</span></p> <ul> <li style="line-height: 1.8; font-size: 13px; mso-line-height-alt: 23px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 13px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px;">Major strain on the Mareeba Region which is in the top six fastest growing local government areas in Queensland.</span></li> <li style="line-height: 1.8; font-size: 13px; mso-line-height-alt: 23px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 13px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px;">Increase in costs due to using the alternative route on the Palmerston Highway.</span></li> <li style="line-height: 1.8; font-size: 13px; mso-line-height-alt: 23px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 13px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px;">Increase in Council waste disposal costs for waste that is currently transported from Cairns to Springmount west of Mareeba with a capacity of approximately 90k tonnes/annum. 70+ trucks movements per week would have to be diverted up the Palmerston Highway.</span></li> <li style="line-height: 1.8; font-size: 13px; mso-line-height-alt: 23px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 13px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px;">Reduction in valuable exports via Cairns Airport from produce rich Tablelands and Lakeland Downs Region (gross value in excess of $600 million worth of produce)</span></li> <li style="line-height: 1.8; font-size: 13px; mso-line-height-alt: 23px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 13px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px;">Reduction in Cairns exports as most of the generated $1,331 million (in 2019/20) comes from Tablelands Region</span></li> <li style="line-height: 1.8; font-size: 13px; mso-line-height-alt: 23px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 13px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px;">Increased manufacturing, production and supply costs to business in the region.</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin: 0; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.8; word-break: break-word; mso-line-height-alt: 23px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.8; word-break: break-word; mso-line-height-alt: 23px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><span style="font-size: 13px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px;">The QTA strongly suggests a more consultative approach that engages the industry and community to arrive at a solution that incorporates the necessary road infrastructure investment that is so desperately needed in the region to enable trucks and general traffic to operate safely, efficiently, and productively.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.8; word-break: break-word; mso-line-height-alt: 23px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.8; word-break: break-word; mso-line-height-alt: 23px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><span style="font-size: 13px; mso-ansi-font-size: 14px;">All media enquiries to Gary Mahon, 0418 736 802, <a href="mailto:gary@qta.com.au" target="_blank" title="gary@qta.com.au" style="text-decoration: underline; 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