The Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) is transitioning heavy vehicle regulation services to the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) on April 20, 2024 as part of a national reform program to improve road safety outcomes.

The NHVR was established as a statutory authority to administer the Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL).

From 20 April, the NHVR will be responsible for heavy vehicle related compliance and enforcement activities in Queensland, with those staff transferring from TMR becoming the regulator’s newest employees.

https://abr.business.gov.au/Help/EntityTypeDescription?Id=00041

NHVR is another corporation with ABN 48 557 596 718 and is listed as a State
Government Entity.

TMR will be responsible for policing vehicles up to 4.5 tonnes and after that NHVR steps in. Queensland truck companies we have spoken to are unsure how their vehicles and drivers will be treated under national regulations but surely it could be no worse than under Queensland’s notorious ‘Mermaids’.

Queensland is the final jurisdiction to transition these services to the NHVR.  New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, and the Australian Capital Territory have already transitioned.  Western Australia and the Northern Territory have not adopted the Heavy Vehicle National Law.

The transferring employees from TMR will not be state government or federal government employees.  They will be employees of the NHVR, a national independent regulator and employed by the NHVR to perform heavy vehicle compliance and enforcement activities under the HVNL.

It is anticipated that there will be no impact to services for customers and/or the community as a result of the transition.

The National Services Transition is designed to improve road safety outcomes by ensuring a standardised, national approach to heavy vehicle compliance.  TMR will continue to deliver compliance and enforcement activities regarding light vehicle passenger transport and light vehicle standards requirements in Queensland.  TMR will continue to work closely with the NHVR to promote road safety initiatives both at the state and national level.

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6 thought on “Federal NHVR to deploy transport compliance officers on April 20, state Main Roads officers no longer inspect heavy vehicles”
  1. Haven’t worked out just yet, why some of my alarm bells started going off… It oozes some of these heavy trucks will be used to transport something more than just what they are supposed to and to have a different type of squad to check ’em out, is also a way to have whatever of extra they are transporting … protected. A crew of specifically chosen individuals, given a uniform with the according vehicle and license, paid to look the other way … something that can’t be done if you have one crew only to do such job. Don’t want the risk to have to deal with workers that do have still some integrity and humanity left, that can dob whatever whoever whenever needs to be dobbed in to the real authorities (and that very specific army group for knows what I am referring to) to help to hide the transportation of eg … kids and or young women … kidnapped from up there to be sold to lurid peados down there…
    With the truck driver to not necessarily know about it at all …
    Just a hunch and let’s hope is wrong as wrong as hell if it were true… Might use somebody of the other crew to have any of these trucks stop on the side of the road for a … quick check of the good you are transporting … question here is … the back doors of these trucks … when locked, do they have to have a government issued seal that can be broken only at destination by the according authorities?
    This pushes the problem of picking and choosing whether today a border is an invisible line (as so it should be at all times considering that states and territories are not countries … Australia is the only continent around the planet that does not have countries …) or a physical line … One more incoherence in systems that got created not according to the needs of the populations, its own environment, its own natural resources, its own climate, its own macro micro national and international economy … but according to a bunch of caryatidszionists/bolsheviks/elitists/soviets/globalists … call ’em whatever you want … it is always the same parasitical invasive cancerous jewdgenepool … since the moment New Holland turned into Australia … How to screw an entire continent and its people in lesser than 200 years … and on going in grand ferocity too.

  2. “…a national independent regulator and employed by the NHVR.” Oh boy, delegation to corporations at its best.
    “It is anticipated that there will be no impact to services for customers…” So truckies and we are customers of their high handed services paying huge fines for the service.
    This cannot be a change for the better.

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