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Crackdown on Trucks Speeding on South Eastern Freeway

TRUCK drivers found speeding or using the wrong gear face tough new penalties including loss of licence, in response to a coronial call for reform over fatal freeway crashes. In 2015, deputy state coroner Anthony Schapel delivered findings into two out-of-control heavy vehicle crashes. They included one the year prior when 41-year-old truck driver James […]

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Workplace Accident Claimed Truck Driver’s Life as He Off-loaded Vehicle

A truck driver has died just days after his lower leg was partially amputated in a workplace incident at Port Kembla Coal Terminal. Mark Roberts is being remembered as a “fun-loving” and passionate rugby league fan. The father-of-two, who lived in Orange but worked in the Illawarra, was dumping a load of coal into the

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Industrial Manslaughter Warning for Operators

Victorian shadow transport infrastructure minister David Davis has sounded a warning for operators around industrial manslaughter laws and their possible application in the future. The existence of, or push for, industrial manslaughter legislation has taken form in different varieties in different Australian states, and its introduction to Victoria was recently an election commitment from the

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Young Father Terrified by Road Rage Incident involving Truck

A Friday morning drive quickly became a horror scene for an Adelaide family. The young family said they were left fearing for their lives during a terrifying road rage confrontation with an angry truck driver in the northern suburb of Bolivar. “I was very nervous, because when he did get out the truck the first thing

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Diesel Fumes Could be Putting Health at Risk

EXPOSURE to high levels of diesel fumes could well be the next biggest occupational health threat since asbestos, exposing the Australian and world mining and trucking industries to multiple public liability claims says hydraulic engineer and inventor, Norm Mathers. Mr Mathers said world leading technology exists currently in Australia to reduce harmful diesel emissions, however

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