The HVIA has revealed that Main Roads Western Australia’s 25 transport inspectors are now carrying real-time heavy vehicle analytics on site using the NHVR)Regulatory Compliance Mobility Solution (RCMS) app.
The National regulator claims that the RCMS WA app will enable Main Roads WA to target high risk offenders, access a central database with driver and vehicle information, and administer digital notices during a heavy vehicle intercept.
WA Transport Minister Rita Saffioti said the RCMS WA app will deliver improved road safety across the state.
“We know the majority of the heavy vehicle industry are safe and compliant and it’s only a small cohort of high-risk operators and drivers that put themselves and the community at risk,” Minister Saffioti said.
“By leveraging heavy vehicle compliance and enforcement data, Main Roads WA can target recidivist offenders, to keep road users safe and prevent damage to the state’s infrastructure,” she added.
Main Roads Western Australia chief operating officer, Des Snook said the RCMS will transform their approach to roadside inspections, with the end-to-end technology removing the need for paper-based forms.
“We expect a 60 per cent reduction in the time spent per heavy vehicle intercept,” he said.
“This targeted enforcement approach rewards safe operators with quick roadside intercepts, as our transport inspectors prioritise unsafe drivers, operators and vehicles and we can now collaborate with the NHVR in real time and be alerted to unsafe, high-risk operators travelling between WA and the eastern states, and vice versa,” he said.
The NHVR was established 11 years ago in 2013 as a statutory authority to administer the Heavy Vehicle National Law, which applies in all Australia’s states and territories except ironically the Northern Territory and Western Australia
NHVR CEO Sal Petroccitto said the RCMS app provides a single central system to store and analyse compliance and enforcement data in real time.
“Camera sightings from over 115 fixed cameras across Australia alerts RCMS users if an approaching heavy vehicle is unregistered, has current defect notices, compliance breaches or recently failed to enter an inspection station,” Petroccitto said.
“The NHVR and Main Roads WA are addressing key safety risks quickly and accurately, to deliver an efficient and borderless regulatory approach,” he said.
The NHVR implemented the RCMS app in Victoria in October 2020 and expanded to the ACT, South Australia, and Tasmania in June 2021, and NSW in August 2022. The app has also now been implemented in Queensland following the transition of heavy vehicle regulatory services to the NHVR in April this year.
The latest move may potentially open a door for WA to join the team and provide truly national coverage for the NHVR.
