Road Pavement Forum

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Road Pavement Forum

• Technology in Practice Status Report
• HEAVY VEHICLE ACCREDITATION SCHEME
• Presentation 8 November 2006
• Nico Pienaar

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Road Transport Management System
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RTMS

• Background
• During 2003 a heavy vehicle accreditation scheme
  was developed and implemented in the forestry
  industry in Kwazulu/Natal Mpumalanga.
• The scheme was developed to promote compliance
  with standards in the area of load control and
  securment, vehicle maintenance driver wellness.
• The success of the project in the forestry
  resulted in similar initiatives being discussed
  in other industries including pulp, paper
  board, bitumen, coal, sugar, aggregate sand
  readymix concrete.

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RTMS (Continue)

• A National steering committee was established to
  co-ordinate the various initiatives and a
  strategy document was developed.
• This strategy document was used to approach the
  SABS to develop standards for transport
  operators, consignors consignees.
• The process has now developed to the constituting
  of Stansa TCI 181B Road Transport Management
  Systems.
• The National Steering Committee representing
  consignors, consignees, Transport Operators,
  Labour, DoT, Sanral, CSIR, NPI SANS.

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RTMS - WHY SUCH A PROGRAM

• Companies need a successful public image and
  reputation
• Traffic laws are moving in the direction of
  placing a legal responsibility on the consignors
  of goods, transporters and consignees, to ensure
  that overloading of trucks do not take place.
• To improve productivity
• To improve global competitiveness by reducing the
  cost of logistics.
• Fair competition between transporters in an
  environment needs to be ensured.
• Overloaded poorly maintained vehicles need to
  be eliminated.
• Road deterioration needs to be curbed.
• Accidents of heavy vehicles need to be reduced.

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WHAT IS RTMS?

• RTMS is an industryled, voluntary
  self-regulation scheme that encourages
  consignees, consignors road transporters to
  implement a management system that preserves road
  infrastructure, improves road safety increases
  productivity.
• Key components are
• - load optimisation
• - driver wellness
• - vehicle maintenance
• - productivity

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Implementation of RTMS

• Depending on position in the supply chain,
  companies may be expected to implement the
  management system components directly related to
  their operations.
• Transport contractors could be expected to apply
  their effort managing vehicle loading, load
  securement, vehicle maintenance driver
  wellness.
• Consignees would need to implement the component
  of the management system that ensures that its
  suppliers despatch correctly loaded trucks

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Implementation of RTMS (continue)

• At present, South African National Standards is
  preparing the necessary documentation for
  transporters. The final document is expected to
  be complete by the first quarter of 2007.
• The Department of Transport, the SA National
  Roads Agency, and various provincial road
  authorities are all supporting the drive.