Stuart St Clair

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Chief Executive Australian Trucking Association

July 8, 2009

"Australian Trucking: Indispensible now and tomorrow"

The trucking industry carries almost three-quarters of Australia’s domestic freight, including every item on the shelves of every supermarket.

Stuart St Clair is the Chief Executive of the Australian Trucking Association (ATA), the peak body that represents the trucking industry. The ATA’s members include state and sector trucking associations, the Transport Workers Union, and some of Australia’s largest logistics companies.

Stuart will talk about:

- why the trucking industry will remain indispensable into the future, despite the critics who claim the days of its importance are numbered;
- how the trucking industry is accepting its responsibility to help deal with climate change;
- how governments and trucking companies can improve safety for truck drivers and other motorists, with fresh insights into what really causes truck crashes; and
- what can be done to fix the road transport laws to make trucking more efficient.

Stuart has a deep practical appreciation of road transport issues, which he gained during his early working life in the timber industry. He owned and managed a sawmill in northern New South Wales, before he was elected to the Guyra Shire Council in 1987, where he became Mayor.

Stuart was elected to Federal Parliament as the Member for New England in 1998. He later became a Senior Adviser to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Transport and Regional Services, John Anderson.

Stuart joined the ATA as its Chief Executive in 2006.