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Fatigue and Safety - Talking Turkey About Trucking

We are not worthy

The worthiness of trucks on the road is a hot issue for not only trucking operators, but also the regulators and government departments tasked to keep the industry compliant and the highways safe. It would seem a change in the way the road worthiness of a truck has been assessed and monitored is going to have a substantial change in the next few years.
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Safety and COR on the agenda

The Chain of Responsibility and Heavy Vehicle Safety Conference, supported by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport Association (CILTA), will be taking place on December 3-4. This discussion comes at the end of the year during which the National Heavy Vehicle Law rolled out, with changes in standards, fatigue management and chain of responsibility.
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Fatigue and Safety - Talking Turkey About Trucking

Picking the right fight

Sometimes it is just choosing your battles and the timing of them which achieves results. Getting the target or the timing wrong and you send the incorrect message and miss your target. The submission by the Australian Trucking Association (ATA) to the joint National Transport Commission/National Heavy Vehicle Regulator heavy vehicle roadworthiness review sets out to attack a direct competitor, sending out the wrong message, if progress is the aim.
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The floating tonne arrives

Some semblance of rationality arrives in vehicle mass measurement with the introduction, this week, of the very clumsily titled ‘1 tonne Mass Transfer Allowance’ (1TMTA). The new rule means
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Getting the NHVAS roadworthy

Fatal truck crashes in recent times have concentrated attention on the assessment and maintenance of heavy trucks. The National Transport Commission and the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator are going through
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The eight minute rule

The introduction of electronic work diaries is set to see the arrival of an eight minute period of grace, an allowance for miscalculation by the driver in each 24 hour period. Paul Retter, CEOP of the
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Trailer coupling alert

An alert has been issued by the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator after the crash in Victoria in recent weeks, when a dog trailer separated from the truck and killed three people in two cars. This is the
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Fatigue and Safety - Talking Turkey About Trucking

There’s talking tough, and there’s being tough

When the fine was handed down for Lennons Transport, the $1.3 million amount was heralded by the NSW Roads and Freight Minister’s press department as, “Toughest truck compliance and enforcement regime in Australia secures historic fine.”
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Fatigue and Safety - Talking Turkey About Trucking

Damned with faint praise

The National Transport Commission (NTC) and the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator has issued the first phase in the ‘Heavy Vehicle Roadworthiness Report of Current Practice’. The report goes
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Diary deadline getting closer

  Every truck driver needs to have upgraded to the new work diary by August 10 this year. The new National Driver Work Diary was introduced back in February and the six month introduction period ends
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