DIGEST 2006 - Sabita

RTMS Vision 2012
RTMS will be a nationally recognised self-regulating scheme for
heavy vehicle road transport, resulting in a safe, equitable and
competitive heavy vehicle logistics value chain.
RTMS MISSION
To provide a national certification scheme (standards, auditors,
manuals) and implementation support (information portals,
recognition, technology transfer) for heavy vehicle road transport to
consignees, consignors and transport operators, focusing on:
• Load optimisation;
• Driver wellness;
• Vehicle maintenance; and
• Productivity.
Standards
The national steering committee
identified the need to develop the
standards based on a phased
approach, and the starting point
chosen was the standard
developed for the forestry
industry.
Once the SA RTMS national
standards have been tried and
tested, it is planned that these
standards will be made available
through the SABS for adoption as
a harmonised SADC standard. The
final phase would be to propose
the standard as the basis for the
development of an international
ISO standard for road logistics.
The proposed process is shown in
Figure 3.
Structure
The proposed RTMS structure is
shown in Figure 4. The National
Steering Committee has been
functional since July 2004, and a
Technical Working Group was
established in November 2005.
There are currently three industry
steering committees (forestry,
mining and asphalt).
To date there has also been strong
participation and support from the
NDoT, SANRAL and the
KwaZulu-Natal DoT as well as
various corporate sponsors and
associations (FSA, ICFR, Chamber
of Mines, Sabita, ASPASA, SARMA,
RFA).
Development process
In August 2006 the SABS was
approached to develop the RTMS
as a national standard. Through a
consultative process, it was
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