Abstract
Summary The travel times of articulated logging trucks along varying classes of road in the Circular Head region of North West Tasmania were investigated. A road classification system was developed to relate the performance of such trucks to roads of different standards. Using this system, models were tested to predict travel times over any specified route for both unloaded and loaded travel. By using one of these models, fixed, variable and total haulage costs per tonne could be estimated for a vehicle travelling over one or more of eleven defined classes of road. This approach illustrates how costs estimates can be made, more equitably than those currently in force, without necessarily changing total haulage costs, since variations in road conditions along different haulage routes can be taken into account.
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