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NSW Police Target Safety and Compliance for Tipper and Dog Combinations

NSW Police recently embarked on Operation Catapult at Rosehill on the west of Sydney, near WestConnex construction sites. The focus of the operation was safety and compliance for tipper and dog combinations with officers intercepting and checking numerous vehicles. During the operation officers from the NSW Traffic and Highway Patrol Command intercepted 29 trucks and […]

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TWU Calls for Safety Measures on International Workers Memorial Day

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The Transport Workers’ Union (TWU) has urged action to improve transport workers’ safety this International Workers’ Memorial Day. Each year we remember fallen workers worldwide on 28 April, but this year the TWU reminded us that transport worker fatalities make up 40 per cent of all workplace deaths. Transport workers have one of the highest

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Trucking Boss Sentence Held over SA driver’s death

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An Adelaide trucking boss failed to have his jail time reduced over the death of one of his drivers in 2014. The 45 year old truck driver, Robert Brimson died because his employer failed to repair the faulty brakes on the vehicle. The operator was found guilty of manslaughter last October for failure to maintain

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Truck Driver Fined over Work Diary Inefficiencies

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Truck drivers that don’t take their work diary entries seriously should learn a lesson from the fate of one driver with a West Australian licence who now lives in Victoria. After falsifying 5 work diary entries, the driver was fined $17,500 and ordered to pay costs of $900 after being stopped by Roads and Maritime

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Detached Truck Trailer Kills Car Driver

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A trailer that detached from a truck cabin and veered onto the wrong side of the Victorian highway has claimed the life of an ute driver. The trailer veered onto the wrong side of the Glenelg Highway east of Coleraine. The driver of the ute, a sixty something year old man, was killed on the

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Heavy Vehicle Crashes Rise Over Past Three Years

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According to the latest Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) figures, the number of fatal crash numbers involving heavy articulated and rigid trucks has risen over the last 3 years. The figures show a 1.6 per cent year increase for articulated and 6.2 per cent for rigid, over the last quarter of calendar

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33 Defect Notices and 22 Infringement Notices Issues in Operation Catapult

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A recent heavy vehicle blitz by New South Wales Police in Sydney resulted in 33 defect notices being issued and 22 infringements detected. The 2 day operation was conducted by the joint traffic taskforce consisting of heavy vehicle inspectors with the aim of getting dangerous heavy vehicles off the road. Operation Catapult, as it was

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ATA Release New Technical Advisory Procedure (TAP)

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The Australian Trucking Association’s (ATA) Industry Technical Council (ITC), has developed and released a new technical advisory on certified load restraint curtain systems (CLRC). The technical advisory, which was designed to fill in the gaps in information left in the load restraint guidelines (LRG), offers operators and inspectors the advice necessary to ensure a common

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VicRoads Pulls 90km Speed Limit Trail for Trucks on Melbourne’s Monash Freeway

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The 90km speed limit for trucks being trialled on Melbourne’s Monash Freeway has been pulled by VicRoads because they discovered tailgating had increased considerably. VicRoads has said it will instead be concentrating on the second stage of its trial, a ban on trucks in the far right lane. According to the department’s Chief Executive John

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Work Diary Exemptions are Possible, Do You Qualify?

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Truck drivers with literacy or print media impairments may find some relief when it comes to work diaries with an exemption from The National Heavy Vehicle Regulator. Graeme Spillman a 54 year old truck driver who suffers from mild dyslexia managed to obtain an exemption after getting a medical certificate from a doctor. The driver

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Truck Driver Fined for Tampering with Speed Limiter

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A truck driver was recently stopped by police on Forrester Road, St Marys, then discovered that the vehicle’s speed limiter had been tampered with. Police said an engine control module downloaded revealed that the vehicle could reach top speeds of 159km/h, instead of the maximum legal speed limit in NSW which is 100km/h for trucks

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NatRoad Kicks off COR Awareness Summit

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The trucking industry had an opportunity to attend the first NatRoad Regional Trucking Summit in Dubbo last Friday, highlighting the challenges facing the industry in 2017 and into 2018. The NHVR began the summit with a presentation which discussed Chain of Responsibility and how it will affect the industry. All parties involved in the chain

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