This is something many in the trucking world have been dying to do for quite some time, start teaching caravanners a lesson about how to behave around trucks.
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The National Heavy Vehicle Regulator has released the Safety Enhancement survey results targeted to enhance safety across the Heavy Vehicle Industry, writes Dave Hourigan the NHVR Chief Regulatory Policy and Standards officer. Read More
What the team at BaseAir have done is come up with a way to reduce the likelihood of trailers falling over by adjusting the way the air suspension reacts when a trailer starts to sway. Read More
One of the priorities for trucking operators, especially those in the livestock game, is keeping trucks upright and stable. PowerTorque test drives a new technology to assess its effectiveness. Read More
Here is a video about the development and testing of a crash barrier reusing old tyres as a raw material. This is the world’s first full-scale test of concrete road safety barriers constructed with rubber crumb from end-of-life tyres. This new, innovative Australian public safety product has passed the ‘crash test’ and is now on track to go to market. Read More
Normally, when PowerTorque runs a video involving dash cams, it’s all about dangerous car drivers, but this video of the week is all about truckies not doing the right thing. Read More
The National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) and Queensland Police Service (QPS) have launched the Sharing our Roads with Oversize Loads campaign, with a series of videos to show road users how to stay safe when driving near trucks towing oversize loads this Queensland Road Safety Week. Read More
It is a fact of life in operators in the car carrying sector, that working at heights has become an ongoing issue for many trucking operations. PowerTorque spoke to Goran Koviloski, Fleet Manager at PrixCar to find out some of the issues and the smart solutions the company has come up with to get the car transport task done as safely as possible. Read More
It’s a message that the trucking industry and the safety authorities have to keep on banging on about, we share the road with cars close by, but not too close! Read More