Main Roads Western Australia’s transport inspectors are now carrying real-time heavy vehicle analytics on site using the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator’s (NHVR) Regulatory Compliance Mobility Solution (RCMS) app.
The RCMS 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 interception.
WA Transport Minister, Rita Saffioti, spoke of the app’s capability, claiming it will deliver improved road safety across the state.
“We know the majority of the heavy vehicle industry is safe and compliant and it’s only a small cohort of high-risk operators and drivers that put themselves and the community at risk,” she 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.”
According to Main Roads WA COO, Des Snook, RCMS will transform the agency’s 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.
“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.”
The NHVR implemented the RCMS app in Victoria in October 2020 and expanded it to the ACT, South Australia and Tasmania in June 2021, with New South Wales following 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.
NHVR CEO, Sal Petroccito, 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,” he said.
“The NHVR and Main Roads WA are addressing key safety risks quickly and accurately, to deliver an efficient and borderless regulatory approach.”