Warrego Highway to Get New Truck Bays due to Government Funding
The Queensland and federal governments have provided $75 million in funding towards upgrading of the Warrego Highway including establishments of new truck bays. The upgrade is made up of 2 projects including the $63.6 million Dalby-Miles Pavement Widening and Safety Upgrades project and the $11.7 million Oakey-Miles Safety Upgrade. Four safety elements were identified during […]
NSW Reminds Drivers of Shared Road Safety Responsibility
A B-Double livestock truck rolled after an incident involving a 4WD towing a caravan and has prompted a safety message by Transport for NSW about the shared responsibility of road safety. The collision which took place on February 10, left a truck driver trapped in his cab before being rescued and taken to hospital in […]
40 Countries Agree Cars Must Have Automatic Braking Systems
It’s well known that the majority of road crashes where trucks and cars are involved are caused by the cars, which is why a new development by the UN is significant. Japan, the European Union and forty countries, excluding the US and China have agreed to require new cars and light commercial vehicles to be […]
Truck Carrying Aerosol Cans Catches Fire on Hume Highway
A truck driver on the Hume Highway at Yass was lucky to escape alive after his vehicle, loaded with aerosol cans went up in flames. Police and emergency crews were on the scene 1km north of the Yass Valley off-ramp after the truck erupted in flames with witnesses saying the driver detached the vehicle’s cabin […]
Driver Freed after Truck Crash near Airport
A truck driver was freed by paramedics after being trapped in his vehicle after a crash near Brisbane Airport recently. The crash left the southbound lane of the Airport Link Tunnel completely blocked. The driver had to be extricated from the vehicle by Queensland Ambulance Service after being trapped for over an hour. He was […]
How Technology is Helping Trucks Stay in their Lanes
According to National Heavy Vehicle Regulator manager Peter Austin, technology is already making trucks safer on the road. Technology already in use such as “lane departure warning”, which vibrates or makes a sound when a driver starts to drift across the line marking to tell them to correct their steering, and “lane keep assist”, which […]