The Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal declared in December 2012 that they will be reviewing the safety of truck drivers in relation to the major Australian retailers. The stated reason for the review is to determine if claims that have been reported regarding drivers being pushed to work to unsafe delivery deadlines are in fact correct. This year in 2013 the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal will concentrate on the countries long distance freight operators as well as the grain and livestock industries. In the twelve months leading up to March 2012 articulated trucks with fatalities increased by ten percent. This equated to a total of 238 people losing their lives across the nation in heavy vehicle accidents The Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal’s plan to look at the major retail providers is supported by the Transport Workers Union (TWU). According to the TWU the retail providers are a large group and consume more than thirty percent of the road transport industry resources and the union says that they are known to pressure drivers into working longer and potentially unsafe working hours. According to the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal they may end up setting the rates of pay for the transport workers, which would override the negotiations that the industry has conducted with the contractors. This would be to ensure that safety and conditions for workers became better. Transport operators deny that overriding these negotiations would not result in better safety for the workers and instead they have asked that black boxes or telematic technology be installed into heavy vehicles. These devices would allow the movements of all drivers to be tracked. The transport operators maintain that if the black boxes were compulsory for all heavy vehicles then accidents should be reduced by twenty five percent.