A Truck Tsunami is Coming
It doesn’t look like a truck tsunami is coming, this truck looks quite lonely as the first freight vehicle to descend the Toowoomba Range on the newly opened Toowoomba Bypass. In the same week as this good news and low congestion story is doing the rounds, the Port of Brisbane is stirring up the anti-truck lobby with threats about a ‘truck tsunami’.
Roy Cummins, the CEO of the Port of Brisbane has come out quoting a paper published by Deloitte Access Economics on the Port’s behalf, as part of a lobbying effort to ensure the proposed Inland Rail from Melbourne to Brisbane, links directly to the Port in Brisbane.
“If we don’t directly connect Inland Rail to the Port of Brisbane, Queenslanders won’t get the jobs, but they will get the trucks,” said Cummins. “That’s because as Queensland’s population grows, so too that the freight task. The way our supply chain is established at present, that means a truck tsunami is heading our way.
