Police message not getting through to trucking.
The police have recently expressed their concern over the large number of trucking safety breaches.
The authorities have conducted a blitz which revealed disturbing results. The blitz found that truckies are still indulging in dangerous behaviour, placing the lives of road users at risk.
The blitz, conducted in New South Wales found that many vehicles were speeding, at over 20km over the limit. While most members of the industry are adhering to safety regulations there are still a small handful of truck operators flouting safety laws.
The speeding offenders were given infringements notices and their vehicles handed over to have their speed limiters checked.
Another issue that the police’s exercise raised was that of drug possession and drug driving.
The post goes on to state:
- Police message not getting through to trucking
- Recent large-scale police operations against the trucking industry have failed to curb dangerous behaviour in the industry, with authorities expressing concern about continued dangerous driving.
- New South Wales Police has targeted trucking in recent weeks, with officers detecting a number of vehicles travelling more than 20km/h over the speed limit between July 27 and August 3 throughout the state.
- In the most recent cases, a B-double was busted travelling 124km/h on the Hume Highway just after 1am on August 3, while a semi-trailer was caught travelling 125km/h on Burley Griffin Way later that day.
- “Quite obviously, there is a small element of the industry not paying attention to our enforcement activities. While drivers continue to speed, we will continue to mount inspection operations. Be warned, we may also consider the direct targeting of the fleets and companies involved,” Superintendent Stuart Smith says.
- All drivers caught speeding were handed infringement notices, with police also defecting their vehicles to have their speed limiters checked.
- “We will now review these recent speeding events to determine what it is we can do with the Roads and Maritime Service (RMS) to increase our inspection and enforcement activities across the state for the benefit of ensuring road safety for all drivers across NSW.”
- Smith says recent heavy vehicle operations inspected more than 1,200 trucks and found 54 instances of alleged tampering with speed limiters to allow trucks to exceed 100km/h.
- “A further 539 infringements, breaches, defects and other issues were found. We have also found 10 to be driving drug affected, and charged two with drug possession,” he says.
