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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BHP has blamed a collision between two autonomous trucks at the Jimblebar iron ore mine in the Pilbara, Western Australia on wet weather. The March 16 accident followed “significant rainfall that deteriorated road surface, causing one vehicle to slip into the other,” a BHP spokesperson said in a statement. Operations resumed in the hours after
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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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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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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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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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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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A ROAD rule, which in theory seems like it should be easy to follow, is infuriating drivers, with many Australians seemingly unable to get the hang of it. The laws around merging on our roads are pretty simple, and there are only two rules drivers need to remember. When a motorist is travelling in a
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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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