National Heavy Vehicle Charging Pilot
The National Heavy Vehicle Charging Pilot (National Pilot) is an innovative industry partnership testing potential direct user charging options for heavy vehicles.
Get Involved! Express your interest now to participate
On-Road Trial Quick Facts
- Measures road use data based on distance, weight and location
- Compares fuel and registration charges with potential direct user charges
- Up to 100 heavy vehicle businesses and over 1000 vehicles participating
Benefits for Business
- No cost to businesses
- Telematics devices or hubodometers installed and maintained for the life of the trial
- Your opportunity to help shape the future of heavy vehicle charging.
Interested? Read more here PDF: 206 KB 
or contact the National Pilot team on 1800-065 113 9am–5pm Monday–Friday or email National.Pilot@infrastructure.gov.au
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National Heavy Vehicle Charging Pilot Procurement
The department is preparing to procure telematics devices and services, manual devices and services and third party invoicing services for an on-road Trial under its National Heavy Vehicle Charging Pilot.
Requests for Expressions of Interest (REOI's) for the three procurement streams were uploaded on AusTender on 16 July. The REOI's can be accessed using the links below.
- www.tenders.gov.au/Atm/Show/3e8f5478-0fbd-4383-9ead-e7d4df095d2b
- www.tenders.gov.au/Atm/Show/56600601-366f-4afd-8fb0-198c7c65ec4d
- www.tenders.gov.au/Atm/Show/7f6c6c43-0df0-4f89-babb-b4f587cd6b33
Industry briefings on the procurement process were held via webinar on 1 May. A question and answer document on the procurements has been prepared and can be found here PDF: 478 KB
Should you have any questions regarding these presentations please contact the National Pilot team at NHVPprocurement@infrastructure.gov.au
Small Scale On-Road Trial—July 2019 to January 2020
The Small Scale On-Road Trial started in July 2019 and finished in January 2020. A total of twelve heavy vehicle operators participated, contributing 259 vehicles. Trial participants collectively operated across all states and territories and included buses and rigid and articulated trucks. Telematics service providers collected monthly vehicle trip distance, fuel consumption and location data.
The trial tested whether telematics devices already installed in the participating vehicles could measure mass (weight) and distance effectively.
The following organisations participated in the Small Scale On-Road Trial:
- Bridgestone Australia Ltd
- Buslines Group Pty Ltd
- Conroy Removals Pty Ltd
- De Bruyn's Transport
- EROAD (telematics provider)
- John West Logistics Pty Ltd
- J R Bulk Liquid Transport (Blu Logistics)
- Nuline Charter Pty Ltd
- Quinn Transport
- Simon National Carriers
- Coolibah Quarries
- D & S Smith Haulage Pty Ltd
- Toll Group
- Transport Analytica (service provider)
- Volvo Buses (telematics provider)
- Volvo Trucks (telematics provider)
Small Scale On-Road Trial Evaluation Report
Small Scale On-Road Trial Evaluation Report
The Small Scale On-Road Trial Evaluation Report PDF: 824 KB is now available for download. You can also access a list of FAQs PDF: 281 KB DOCX: 1257 KB on the Evaluation Report.
National Heavy Vehicle Charging Pilot—Fact Sheet PDF: 611 KB DOCX: 3158 KB
Developing the Foundation for the National Pilot
During 2018–2019, the department, all levels of governments, industry and expert consultants collaborated to develop the foundation for the National Pilot. More detail on the Foundation projects can be found here DOCX: 1247 KB PDF: 236 KB .