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 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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Heavy vehicles that are feeling the pinch of increased tolls, higher registration charges and already minuscule operating margins are opposing the forced removal of trucks from suburban rat runs in Yarraville and Footscray as of 2022. The move to force trucks off suburban streets in Yarraville and Footscray once the Western Distributor project is completed,
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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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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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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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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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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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