PASSENGER on the 57 tram route had to find another way to get to work again when a truck hit the Flemington Bridge on Racecourse Rd. Buses were called in as replacement services after the VISY truck his the bridge near Moonee Ponds Creek about 9am. It comes just four days after a truck his […]
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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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A MAN has died after being hit by a truck near Brunswick Heads this morning. According to NSW Police, a man walked onto the M1 (Pacific Highway) near the Brunswick Heads interchange about 6am. He was hit by an oncoming truck. The man, who is yet to be identified, died at the scene. The truck
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In the run up to the Council meeting later this month where the 28 member states are expected to adopt their position on the EU’s first CO2 standards for trucks, the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) is calling on governments to adopt a well-balanced and viable approach to this piece of legislation, which will have
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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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he National Transportation Safety Board is dispatching a team of investigators to Delray Beach, Fla., to investigate a Friday morning crash that killed the driver of a Tesla Model 3. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is also investigating the crash. According to the preliminary report of the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s office obtained by Eletrek,
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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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THE NHVR will meet heavy vehicle operators as part of a ground-breaking study into fatigue monitoring technology. NHVR Fatigue Specialist Andreas Blahous said an independent research team was seeking expressions of interest from transport companies and manufacturers to take part in the independently-run safety project. “We’ve asked independent research specialists to look at ways the
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