A truck driver has lost his life in a crash in Melbourne’s western suburbs when another heavy vehicle collided into his. The 2 rig crash happened on Little Boundary Road at Laverton North when the one truck driver was turning right. A second truck then swiped into the turning truck, crushing it’s cab and killing […]
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According to research by Monash University’s Accident Research Centre, Australian motorists are distracted every 96 seconds by things other than driving. Motorists are increasing their risk of crashing almost tenfold the study found because they are not fully concentrating on the road while driving. Drivers are becoming increasingly engaged in other activities, the researchers from
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The Victorian Transport Industry Safety Group recently released new guidelines for truck breakdown sites, to help ensure staff and public safety. The guidelines, meant to assist operators, drivers and technicians details a checklist of factors involved in truck breakdowns as well as the steps that should be taken to address them. The steps are broken
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It was announced at The NHVR’s Fatigue Safety Forum that the government would be tackling the issue of fatigue in the trucking industry by investing in field trials of fatigue monitoring technologies. The federal government and NHVR have pledged upwards of a combined $500,000 towards trials to determine the effectiveness of technology in reducing road
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A horror crash has killed 19 people in Turkey after falling into a canal. The truck was carrying migrants when it collided with the highway barrier and fell into the canal. It is not known where the migrants were from or where they were heading.
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The Transport Workers Union (TWU) says the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) should be focusing on fatigue but not on fatigue monitoring technology trials but rather a solution to the problem. The federal government’s joint announcement with the NHVR that it would fund field trials of SmartCap technology and other driver fatigue monitoring technologies and
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In this video a 46 year old mother gets behind the wheel of a truck for the very first time and discovers how challenging controlling one of these machines really is. The experiment showed that driving a truck is a lot different than driving a car, something that light motor vehicle drivers need to
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If you love trucks you should start making your plans to attend the 2019 Brisbane Truck Show to be held in May next year. The Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre will be the venue for the 50th anniversary of the event. Watch the video for more.
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Australia is known for the road train and Volvo’s global boss Martin Lundstedt recently took advantage of a trip to Australia to get into one these vehicles and experience it first hand. On a tour of Australia recently, Mr Lundstedt visited the Volvo plant in Wacol, Queensland and the opening of the company’s new Australian
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The Transport Workers Union (TWU) has called for understanding that truck drivers aren’t always the ones to blame for crashes. SafeWork recently released data that showed that transport and warehousing are at the top of the list of industries with the most fatalities and in a recent post on Fullyloaded.com.au, the writer questioned why industry
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Truck drivers on the Newell Highway who alerted police to a dangerous driver have been thanked by police. The drivers used their 2 way radios to inform police of a dangerous driver in a Holden Apollo on the highway near Gilgandra. Police witnessed the male driver driving along the extreme shoulder, almost colliding with a
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A pedestrian was killed on a major Melbourne freeway recently after being run over by a car first and then a truck at around 5am. The identity of the man and the cause of the crash have not been revealed however the investigation is ongoing. Following the tragedy, all 4 lanes of the freeway at
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