NSW Heavy Vehicle Safety Could be Enhanced by Addressing Safety Compliance Framework
A waste management company has called on the New South Wales government to strengthen its compliance and enforcement framework to boost heavy vehicle safety. The StaySafe Committee, the NSW Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Road Safety is accepting submissions for an inquiry on heavy vehicle safety and use of technology to improve road safety. A […]
Transport Operators Should Look into The Value of Automation – VTA Says
The Victorian Transport Association (VTA) has advised legislators, regulators and industry leaders to pay attention to the impacts of automation and other forces on the nation’s transport industry. The comments were made by VTA CEO Peter Anderson during the launch of a report by economists of the Australia Institute’s Centre for Future Work. Mr Anderson […]
Fatigue Involved in Truck and Car Collision
A teenage girl was hospitalised and left fighting for her life after a collision between a car and truck on the Fraser Coast. Fatigue has been blamed for the collision, with initial investigations revealing that the car was on the wrong side of the road at the time of the impact. Witnesses say the truck […]
Truck Drivers Slam Supermarket Giant for Outrageous Hours
The Transport Workers Union (TWU) has lashed out at supermarket giants who put pressure on drivers to speed, skip breaks and ignore the rules of the road. The union says supermarket giant Aldo is to blame for the “slaughter” of truck drivers because they’re forcing drivers into long and dangerous driving hours. Union spokesperson Tony […]
Australian Trucking Association Calls for Mandatory Stability Control for Trucks
The Australian Trucking Association (ATA) has called for mandatory electronic stability control (ESC) for heavy trucks, a move it says would save lives on our roads. The ATA has urged federal government to mandate ESC for heavy vehicles in response to the Infrastructure Department’s regulatory impact statement (RIS). The RIS proposed that ESC be mandated […]
Judge Describes Dubbo Crash Truck Driver as Dangerous
A judge has described a truck driver who crashed into several parked cars on the Newell Highway near Dubbo in January as “dangerous” and denied him bail. The 50 year old driver of the semi-trailer was refused a second bail application by Justice Richard Button who referred to the “death and devastation” that followed the […]