Trucking industry should bear its full costs; further subsidies for trucking is bad policy

Pictured: a row of trucks prime movers. Photo credit: Dale Staton from Unsplash.

Australia isn’t getting the best deal from its trucking industry. Trucking is heavily subsidised, it is polluting, and it is dangerous – many Australians are killed and injured in heavy truck accidents each year.

We don’t think it’s good policy to give yet more subsidies to this industry at the further expense of all other Australians.

But that’s exactly what trucking industry executives, shippers (who hire...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/trucking-industry-should-bear-its-full-costs-further-subsidies-for-trucking-is-bad-policy/

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