Truckies Tell Us How to Share the Road with Them
As a truck driver you risk your life everyday on the road. In fact the truck cabin has been identified as one of the deadliest workplaces in Australia. According to Australian Truck Association’s Safety Truck Advocate Glen Schmidtke, that risk is shared with everyone who shares the road with a truck. But many motorists aren’t […]
Truck Driver Seen Obscuring Licence Plates
A recent article on Herald Sun revealed that it had caught a driver as he pulled onto the side of a busy Melbourne road and obscured his number plate with a piece of rubbish. The driver stuffed the rubbish into his front licence plate to obscure the first letter of the truck’s registration number, presumably […]
Scrap Metal Truck Rolls on Melbourne Freeway
A truck driver recently lost control of his semi-trailer on one of Melbourne’s busiest roads, flipping over a concrete barrier, causing his load of scrap metal to spill across the freeway. Traffic was in chaos as the recycling truck with it’s trailer full of scrap metal overturned on Western Ring Road. The truck driver said […]
Truck Crash in Sydney Claims Motorcyclist’s Life
NSW road safety has had a rocky start to the year. A collision in Sydney’s northwest resulted in the death of a motorcyclist when his vehicle collided with a truck. The male motorcycle rider died at the scene of the crash in Marsden Park. The truck driver was taken to hospital for mandatory blood and […]
Another Car and Truck Collision
A fast acting truck driver managed to avoid a potentially fatal traffic crash at Wellcamp by swerving to avoid a head-on collision with a car near Wellcamp Airport. The driver of the B-Double prime mover was carrying milk and cheese from regional producers at the time of the incident. The truck caught fire and was […]
Train and Truck Collide Killing 26 People
Twenty -six people were killed and over 200 injured in a horrific train and truck collision. The collision which took place in rural South Africa, involved a truck and train carrying people home after the Christmas and New Year holidays. The crash has been blamed on the truck driver who allegedly tried to cross the […]