TMA High Productivity Freight Vehicle Monitoring Schemes (VIC)

The TMA High Productivity Freight Vehicle (HPFV) monitoring schemes (VIC) are made available by the Department of Transport and Planning Victoria, to enable access of eligible HPFVs on approved routes of the Victorian road network:

• New telematics requirements for HPFV and mobile cranes.

Refer to the Department of Transport and Planning information sheet for more information on HPFVs:

• Victoria’s PBS & HPFV networks information sheet.

One of the conditions of access to the network is telematics monitoring of HPFVs. Transport operators may opt for eligible vehicles to be monitored under the Telematics Monitoring Application (TMA) or the Intelligent Access Program (IAP), or both, as described below.

TMA High Productivity Freight Vehicle Monitoring Schemes (VIC)

There are three TMA HPFV Monitoring Schemes (VIC) as follows:

Scheme	Associated Application	Is Mass Monitoring Required?	Level of Assurance
TMA HPFV Monitoring Scheme (VIC)	TMA	Yes	2
TMA HPFV Monitoring Scheme (No Mass Monitoring)(VIC)	TMA	No	2
IAP HPFV Monitoring Scheme (VIC)	IAP	No*	3

To participate in any HPFV scheme, transport operators must conform with the requirements specified within the National Class 2 Performance Based Standards (High Productivity) Authorisation Notice or a Class 2 permit issued by the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) as applicable. Enrolment in the TMA or IAP application, or both, is one of these requirements.

Unless required by law, TCA will destroy the telematics data it has received relating to the transport operator’s nominated vehicle(s) 12 months from its receipt of the data.

TCA will analyse data received through the TMA or IAP application, and make reports available via the Telematics Analytics Platform (TAP).

Enrolment in TMA or IAP HPFV Monitoring Schemes (VIC)

Transport operators may choose to enrol eligible vehicles in an appropriate TMA HPFV monitoring scheme or both a TMA and IAP HPFV monitoring scheme as shown in the figure below, noting that:

• Location is monitored either through enrolment in a TMA or IAP HPFV Monitoring scheme, as selected by the transport operator.
• Mass is monitored with a Smart OBM system only through enrolment in the TMA HPFV Monitoring Scheme (i.e. only for combinations that exceed 68.5 tonnes GCM or quad-axle semi-trailers that exceed 46 tonnes GCM, or split-axle semi-trailers that exceed 43.5 tonnes GCM).

Transport operators can enrol vehicles in the appropriate scheme by contacting a certified Application Service Provider (ASP). If the applicable permit requires mass and vehicle configuration to be monitored, the ASP must also be certified to provide services for TMA with the Smart OBM feature.

Find out more details on these schemes by downloading a copy of the TMA High Productivity Freight Vehicle Monitoring Schemes (VIC) document.

For more information on these schemes, please contact us.

Other schemes

You might also be interested in:

• RIM Semi-Trailer Farm Gate Access Scheme (NSW)
• TMA Road Train Monitoring Scheme (VIC)
• TMA PBS Level 1–4 Vehicle Monitoring Schemes (NSW)
• TMA PBS Vehicle Monitoring Scheme (TAS)
• TMA PBS Vehicle Monitoring Scheme (WA)
• TMA PBS Vehicle Mass Monitoring Scheme (NSW)
• TMA PBS Vehicle Mass Monitoring Scheme (QLD)
• TMA Higher Mass Limits Scheme (QLD).

For interstate transport operators, you should also consider similar schemes in other jurisdictions.