Federal Budget encourages business investment

Built at a total cost of around $1.6 million this project has been three years in the making. Main Roads contributed $485K and the other $1.2 million came from the Road Trauma trust fund.

Concerned that there were no suitable rest areas between Williams and Albany and with their harvest intake growing steadily which necessitated a large number of trucks delivering into the town, the Shire first touted this idea in 2017 with the then Road Safety Commissioner Kim Papalia as a safety issue.

Main Roads originally planned the rest bay as just a small strip of gravel. Certainly no showers, no toilets and advised that drivers could use the town's toilets.

Obviously no-one at Main Roads have ever tried to negotiate a road train round the

The WA Transport industry thanks the Shire of Cranbrook and everyone involved for building a purpose built ‘truck’ facility encourage the purchase of new, safer trucks and trailers.

Businesses with a turnover of up to $5 billion will be able to write off the full value of any new eligible asset they small back streets of town (even if we were permitted to do so) in order to pee in private.

The Shire Council stuck to its guns, using safety concerns for both its town citizens ‘and’ the truck drivers. They managed to reclaim some land from a local farmer and lease an area from Main Roads and the plan started to become a reality.

New incoming shire CEO Greg Blycha was one of those originally on the Road Safety Commission Management Team and has been instrumental in seeing this project through to completion.

Aware that this rest area will be used, in the majority, by grain carters who access CBH in the grain season, CBH have agreed to pay for the maintenance and cleaning for six months of the year with the Shire of Cranbrook covering the other six months. purchase for their business. For small and medium businesses, this will also include second-hand assets.

The budget announcement also includes: • Offset tax losses for businesses with up to $5 billion turnover • JobMaker hiring credit, an employer wage subsidy for hiring young

This really is a fantastic initiative on behalf of the Shire of Cranbrook and other shires need to look at providing similar areas within their shire boundaries. Main Roads who have so many rules, regulations and ‘fines’ for those who contravene fatigue management rules, in my opinion, need to get real and put a stack more of these up and down the highway if they are serious about truck drivers getting a good night's sleep and being refreshed for the morning.

So let’s support the towns that support us. If you are heading through Cranbrook try stopping and support a cafe or business in town. The three cafe's Kaffee 107, Nana Vick’s and Cafe 124 all have plenty of parking for trucks and would welcome the

It wonderful that the Shire of Cranbrook thinks enough about truck drivers, their safety and well-being and provides us with some proper facilities

The introduction of temporary full expensing will drive trucking business investment and

extra business.

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JobTrainer skills package, including a 50 per cent wage subsidy for 100,000 new apprentices or trainees $110 billion infrastructure pipeline including upgraded truck rest area, bridges and roads, and $17.8 billion in personal income tax relief.