It is not surprising that a spike in the number of fatalities on our roads creates plenty of concern and stimulates discussion and controversy, it is something which could be called the crash statistics effect.
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Difficulty Scheduling Jobs
A lot of the tasks in a workshop are driven by the need to repair something which has gone wrong, creating difficulty scheduling jobs. At Wakefield Trucks, based in the northern Adelaide suburb of Salisbury,
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Steady Flow of New Technicians
A steady flow of new technicians is helping Wakefield Trucks, based in the northern Adelaide suburb of Salisbury next to the major freight routes heading for Port Augusta and Mildura. A lot of mixed fleets
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Sensible Car Drivers?
Is it too much to ask for the trucking industry to be able to deal with sensible car drivers? The biggest risk to safety on our highways is those people driving cars. They are the least observant, most likely to speed and prone to fatigue-related crashes, especially around holiday time.
Car drivers are the bane of the truckie’s life, lacking any kind of consideration for truck drivers and manoeuvring dangerously around them. If there is one thing we need to fix to improve road safety it is the standard of car driving.
The biggest problem is the lack of knowledge in the car driving community about trucks, the way they perform and what they can and cannot do. Car drivers tend to exhibit fear around trucks and will tend to panic if the truck does anything they don’t understand.
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More Caravan Capers
One of the perennial problems suffered by trucks is the car towing a caravan losing control and causing mayhem, more caravan capers. If truck drivers were driving a combination the same size, they would
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