Sometimes it’s easy to forget just what it is like for truck drivers out on our highways and lose sight of the fact that trucking is still a dangerous industry.
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Trucks vs Caravans
It’s that time of year again, as the Australian grey nomad migration begins it’s move from the North of the country towards the South, as it warms up through spring, bringing with it the the issues around trucks vs caravans, yet again.
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A Genuine Heavy Duty Challenger from Hino
The complete renewal of the Hino truck range reaches its conclusion with the introduction of the new 700 Series models and sees a genuine heavy duty challenger from Hino coming on to the Australian truck market.
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Safety Continues to Drive Our Industry
The point needs to be made and reinforced that safety continues to drive our industry, writes Sal Petroccitto, National Heavy Vehicle Regulator CEO.
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Safety-Critical Replacement Parts
The ARTSA Institute (ARTSA-i) recently unveiled a good Practice Guide, which aims to raise awareness of suppliers, purchasers and installers of safety-critical replacement parts about supply practices.
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Taking Your Life In Your Hands
It is regarded as a traumatic event and not one you would do every day, but we all understand what the concept of taking your life in your hands means. However, a couple of stories in this week’s PowerTorque newsletter bring a simple fact to light, one which we sometimes lose sight of.
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Taking the Heavy Japanese Truck Segment to a New Level
The release of the new Hino 700 heavy duty truck this week sees the brand taking the heavy Japanese truck segment to a new level. Despite the new shape looking more like a modernising and updating of the previous generations of 700s, this truck is all new. Only the chassis rails and the engine block are the same as the previous 700 models.
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Fatality Free Friday
In the lead up to Fatality Free Friday, the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator is urging everyone to put in an extra effort to reduce the risk of accidents.
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Boosting Drawbar Trailer Safety
On the issue of boosting drawbar trailer safety, Bob Woodward, Australian Trucking Association Chief Engineer has campaigned long and hard to improve safety in this area.
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Quantifying and Investigating Truck Accidents
There are quite a few issues around quantifying and investigating truck accidents, some due to the vagaries of our adversarial ‘fed vs state’ system and others due to a lack of a real political will on the part of the authorities to tackle the truck trauma debate.
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