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Safety Truck Teaches Drivers What Its Like To Drive a Truck

A special safety truck has hit Australia’s roads to educate drivers about how to drive safely around trucks. The Australian Trucking Association’s chief executive Ben Maguire was first to climb into the cabin of the safety truck, unveiled in November. The truck, a Volvo FH Prime Mover was the 60,000th truck to be built at […]

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Truck Driver Arrested After Driving with Disqualified Licence and Speeding

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A heavy vehicle driver was recently arrested for driving while high on methamphetamine and tampering with the vehicle’s speed limiter. The truck was stopped by police from The Heavy Vehicle Enforcement Section along the Princes Highway recently when the man was charged with driving while disqualified, failure to carry a work diary and possessing a

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Truck and Train Collision Prompts Warning

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The video of a truck colliding with a train is a reminder to road users to slow down and check for approaching trains before crossing intersections. The video released by rail freight operator Pacific National and NSW Police is a harsh reminder of the consequences of failing to stop at level crossings. People are

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Man Fighting For His Life After 11 Car Crash on Melbourne Ring Road

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When heavy vehicles are involved, the consequences of a road crash can be devastating, as a recent incident in Melbourne has proven. A man in his thirties is fighting for his life in hospital after a horrific crash involving 11 vehicles. Several other people including a school-aged girl are also in hospital after being seriously

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Truckie That Killed Six, Released from Jail

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The truck driver who was last year sentenced to jail after his truck ploughed into a line of stopped cars, injuring 6 people has been released from prison following a successful appeal. The 42 year old driver was sentenced to 3 years in jail after being convicted of dangerous driving occasioning grievous bodily harm to

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Fatal Collision Claims Truck Driver’s Life

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A fatal head-on crash has taken place on the South Western Highway, near North Dandalup, involving 2 trucks. The crash took place shortly after 4am, claiming the life of a truck driver in his twenties. The second truck driver, in his fifties was taken to Peel Health Campus for treatment. He was transported in a

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Motorists Urged to be Cautious Around Trucks

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Although truck drivers usually get the short end of the stick when it comes to blame for road crashes, road safety is everyone’s responsibility and as a new campaign highlights this requires the mindfulness of all road users. The New South Wales Centre for Road Safety reminds us that cyclists, pedestrians, motorbike riders and

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Minister Releases West Gate Tunnel Environmental Report

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According to the West Gate Tunnel Environmental Report released recently by Victorian planning minister Richard Wynne, the 24 hour truck bans in the inner west would be extended. The aim of the project is to reduce congestion and travel times by taking 9,300 trucks off residential roads. The report says once the project is operational,

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Truck Platoons Coming Soon

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A recent blog post discussed the introduction of truck platooning and whether or not it would be beneficial to truck drivers and the road transport industry. Peloton Technology was recently granted approval to conduct trials on Australian roads, but what exactly is platooning and should we embrace it? Platooning is when a number of trucks

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Two People Killed in Collision involving Truck

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A recent head-on collision involving an ute and truck resulted in the deaths of the ute’s occupants. The man and woman who lost their lives were traveling in the ute, pulling a trailer when their vehicle veered onto the wrong side of the road and into the path of a truck. They were killed but

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App Helps Manage Health and Safety of Workers

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Managing the health and safety of employees and contractors working remotely or on the road has always been more of a challenge, particularly given communication difficulties. A recently released app Onsite Safety aims to change that by allowing business owners to remotely manage the health and safety of their staff through a smartphone or a

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Major Delays After Truck Crash on Gold Coast

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A crash involving one truck is bad enough but a crash involving 3 trucks recently took place on a Yatala on-ramp to the M1 in Queensland. None of the drivers were taken to hospital, so they probably weren’t badly injured but the road closures caused major traffic delays. The vehicles blocked 2 lanes of the

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