All Clusters Transport & Distribution Cluster Road Freight & Trucking Hub
Transport & Distribution Cluster · Hub 01

Road Freight & Trucking. Run a freight business that survives the diesel and the duty cycles.

Owner-driver operations, mid-size fleets, line-haul operators, and the businesses moving freight by road across Australia. Road freight is the backbone of Australian logistics and a chronically thin-margin industry. This Hub is for Members running road freight businesses and the specialists who help them.

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About this Hub

Run a freight business that survives the diesel and the duty cycles.

Owner-driver operations, mid-size fleets, line-haul operators, and the businesses moving freight by road across Australia. Road freight is the backbone of Australian logistics and a chronically thin-margin industry. This Hub is for Members running road freight businesses and the specialists who help them.

Start with a Pillar

Three starting Pillars. Pick the one closest to your situation.

Each Pillar is a structured pass through one part of running this kind of business. Five questions, five dimensions, a clear read on where you stand. Take the Pillar; your Facilitator routes the result to the right specialist.

Pillar 01 · Free · 5 minutes

Freight Business Health

Five questions across five dimensions. A read on whether your road freight business is built for the next decade — or running on legacy momentum.

Revenue per truck
How does your revenue per truck compare across your fleet, and what is the spread telling you?
Customer concentration
How exposed are you to your top three customers — and what would the impact be if you lost one?
Operating margin
After fuel, drivers, depreciation, and overheads, what is your true margin per kilometre?
Compliance state
Is your NHVR, fatigue, mass and dimension, and driver hours compliance clean and confidently defensible?
Strategic outlook
Is the business positioned for the next decade of fuel transition, autonomous freight, and rate pressure?
Pillar 02 · Free · 5 minutes

Cost-Per-Kilometre

Five questions across five dimensions. The honest read on what each kilometre actually costs once every line item is in.

Fuel cost
How well is your fuel cost being managed through buying, vehicle selection, and driver behaviour?
Driver cost
Are your driver costs (wages, accommodation, allowances) sustainable against your rate card?
Maintenance cost
Is your maintenance cost per kilometre tracking with the age of the fleet, or running ahead of it?
Depreciation reality
Are you replacing trucks at the right point in their lifecycle, or running them too long or too short?
Hidden costs
Are insurance, registration, finance, and overhead costs all known per truck, or hidden in business-wide totals?
Pillar 03 · Free · 5 minutes

Fleet & Driver Strategy

Five questions across five dimensions. The fleet, the people, the subcontractor mix, and the next-fuel question every freight operator now faces.

Fleet size match
Is the fleet sized for the work you have, or carrying excess capacity from a different era of the business?
Driver retention
How long do drivers typically stay, and is the trend up or down?
Driver recruitment
Where do new drivers come from, and is the pipeline reliable in a tightening market?
Subcontracting balance
How much of the work is being done by subcontractors versus owned fleet — and is the mix right?
Fleet replacement plan
Is there a clear plan for replacing trucks, what fuels they will run on, and how that gets funded?
The Twelve Spokes

Twelve specialty zones inside this Hub.

Each Spoke routes Members to a specialist Service Provider once a Pillar surfaces what they need. Spokes are the destinations the Pillars route into — full Spoke pages come online once Pillars are operating at the full standard.

Owner-Driver Operations Coming soon
Small-Fleet Operations Coming soon
Line-Haul & Interstate Freight Coming soon
Specialist Freight (Refrigerated, Heavy, Hazardous) Coming soon
Subcontract Freight Networks Coming soon
Fuel & Operating Cost Management Coming soon
Driver Recruitment & Retention Coming soon
Heavy Vehicle Compliance & NHVR Coming soon
Fleet Capital & Replacement Strategy Coming soon
Freight Pricing & Rates Coming soon
Freight Business Sale & Succession Coming soon
Telematics & Compliance Tech Coming soon

Talk to a Facilitator about this Hub.

Twenty minutes. Tell us what you operate inside this part of transport, and we will route you to the right Pillar, the right Spoke, and the right specialist inside the Transport & Distribution Cluster.

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