Potential Economic Impact of High Productivity Vehicles for Woodchip Transport in the Green Triangle Region of Australia
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Transport is one of the major costs for forest operations in Australia so industry is eager to explore options to improve the efficiency of their freight task. Through looking at their current payload efficiency using weigh bridge data it was noted that different configurations offer over double potential payload as compared to the basic semi-trailer but suffer from limited access. With the availability of Performance Based Standards to introduce new high productivity configurations the industry is now exploring three new configurations that have the potential to reduce cost by as much as 22% and fuel use and thus greenhouse gas emissions by up to 26%.
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Transport is one of the major costs for forest operations in Australia so industry is eager to explore options to improve the efficiency of their freight task. Through looking at their current payload efficiency using weigh bridge data it was noted that different configurations offer over double potential payload as compared to the basic semi-trailer but suffer from limited access. With the availability of Performance Based Standards to introduce new high productivity configurations the industry is now exploring three new configurations that have the potential to reduce cost by as much as 22% and fuel use and thus greenhouse gas emissions by up to 26%.
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