Some 200 trucks have converged on the Sydney Harbour Bridge as part of a union protest calling for industry regulation to address fatal truck crashes in Australia. The trucks took up lanes in both directions on the bridge on Sunday morning before looping around Sydney’s CBD, mirroring similar protests in Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. […]
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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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Tasmanian Labor senator Catryna Bilyk has called for road safety to have its own dedicated portfolio with a federal ministry, alongside a cultural change towards not accepting the road toll as the norm, and supports demands for road deaths involving commercial heavy vehicles to be treated as workplace deaths. In a statement on road safety,
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A COMPANY has been sanctioned for allowing two unsafe vehicles to be driven in the wake of a serious crash at Fairy Meadow, near Wollongong, yesterday. This morning officers from the NSW Police Traffic and Highway Patrol Traffic Task Force with the assistance of Roads and Maritime Inspectors, began inspecting the vehicles from the company’s fleet
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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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The rate of fatal crashes involving heavy rigid trucks has declined over the past year after threatening to overtake articulated trucks, the latest Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) heavy vehicle fatal crash statistics show. The BITRE chart shows a parallel decline from the 2017 December quarter. For heavy rigids, this was the first
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AMENDMENTS to the Heavy Vehicle National Law will bring a new era of Chain of Responsibility to the road transport industry, with drastically increased fines for breaches across the transport chain, including for drivers, and a shift in responsibility for all in the chain. As this issue of Big Rigs hits the streets, the amendments
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Both southbound lanes of the M1 Princes Motorway have reopened after an earlier crash involving a car and truck at the base of Mount Ousley. Both vehicles are now on the centre median. Southbound traffic remains heavy and is queued about 2km. Motorists should continue to allow plenty of additional travel time. Meanwhile, two of
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Schedulers occupy an important and unique role in the Chain of Responsibility (CoR). While their position in businesses may not attract the same level of risk, responsibility and attention as executives under the Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL), their responsibilities are by no means insignificant. Indeed, industry-wide schedulers play a significant role in influencing and
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The man’s death brings the number of lives lost on Victoria’s roads this year to 106, up from 64 at the same time last year. 2.10pm Bendigo Senior Sergeant Ian Brooks said the truck appeared to have lost control on a bend while travelling south on the Calder Alternative Highway towards the freeway, but it
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The National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) has warned executives of heavy vehicle supply chain companies to be aware of their responsibilities under the changed Chain of Responsibility (COR) laws following a number of current investigations. Eight months down the COR reform track, NHVR statutory compliance executive director Ray Hassall reveals the NHVR is currently undertaking
The National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) has warned operators of the importance of due diligence for all parties along the heavy vehicle supply chain following the successful prosecution of a national company for overloading. The company was prosecuted for overloading a gravel truck 120 per cent above the statutory limit. The loader manager and truck
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