Conference presentation
Payload management of log trucks in Australia
Wood Flow Optimisation: Transport Technologies - Logistics - IT and Data Management, 2016 (Melbourne, Australia)
Forest Industry Engineering Association
2016
Abstract
A project was carried out to investigate the impact of four different weighing methods on over/under load of forestry trucks operating in New South Wales (NSW) under two types of roads; gazetted (approved for higher legal gross vehicle weight limits) and non-gazetted (standard public road gross vehicle weight limits). For all the technologies tested there was found to be a substantial under-loading issue ranging from 5.3 to 6.4 tonnes per load on gazetted roads while the same technology achieved a much better outcome on non-gazetted with a range of 1.4 tonnes under-loaded to 0.1 tonnes over-loaded on average. The results point to a more significant role for policy and methods than the technology used for in-forest weighing in achieving effective payload management in forestry haulage.
Details
- Title
- Payload management of log trucks in Australia
- Authors
- Mohammad R Ghaffariyan (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and LawMark W Brown (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
- Conference details
- Wood Flow Optimisation: Transport Technologies - Logistics - IT and Data Management, 2016 (Melbourne, Australia)
- Publisher
- Forest Industry Engineering Association
- Date published
- 2016
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2016 The Author. Reproduced here with kind permission.
- Organisation Unit
- Tropical Forests and People Research Centre; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Forest Industries Research Centre; Forest Research Institute
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450687502621
- Output Type
- Conference presentation
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