The search for a unified telematics system capable of wide-ranging fatigue management has been a long one and MTData says its solution has it all.
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Bad News, Good News, Bad News
This year, 2020, isn’t quite all bad news, but it feels like there is a negative slant on just about all we hear, it’s like bad news, good news, bad news, just when you’re feeling optimistic, something happens to bring the mood right down again.
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Safety Initiative Funding Announced
Round Five of the Australian Government’s Heavy Vehicle Safety Initiative funding announced this week will provide 26 projects, aimed at saving lives and reducing road trauma, with a share of the latest $5.9 million to be pledged to the initiative.
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Fatigue Monitoring Tech as Part of a Fatigue Management Program
One of the options which has gained currency in the reform of the Heavy Vehicle National Law is including fatigue monitoring tech as part of a fatigue management program to ensure better safety outcomes in terms of fatigue. Operators using some of the technologies should be able to use it to gain concessions on driving schedules.
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Border Confusion Continues, Again
We are in a situation, with the which the trucking industry is more than familiar, as the border confusion continues, again, demonstrating, once again, an issue which plagues our industry in its relationship with the authorities.
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Getting Fatigue Management Right
Any changes to the fatigue rules and enforcement will need a good deal of flexibility built into the system if the aim is getting fatigue management right. There is a lot which works under the current regime and there is a lot which does not.
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Fatigue By The Numbers
Thanks to the annual National Transport Accident Research Centre report we can now get a picture of the situation surrounding fatigue by the numbers on a regular basis.
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Hino Release the New 300 Series Light Duty Truck
This week new levels of features and performance have been reached at the lower end of the weight range as Hino release the new 300 Series Light duty truck. The new range features something Hino are calling SmartSafe, a comprehensive safety package with advanced driver-assist technology that takes an active focus in protecting the life of drivers, passengers and other road users.
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Trucking and Responsibility
The two words, trucking and responsibility have not always gone together well. There have been times in our wilder periods of the past where the sense of a duty of responsibility was lost among many other priorities which either we or others imposed on ourselves.
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Improving Safety For Our Heavy Vehicle Drivers
We tend to envisage truck drivers as endurance warriors, however, the reality is that they are subject to greater safety and health risks than any other occupation, but what can we do about Improving safety for our heavy vehicle drivers?
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