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Here’s a short video to make you think. If you have never witnessed a truck tyre going off, you have no idea quite what a damaging explosion it can be. This video comes from the UK, as a tyre company tries to increase awareness of the dangers of exploding tyres.

TRUCKING IN SOUTH AFRICA, originally uploaded by Claude BARUTEL. A recent checking campaign on truckies in South Africa has thrown up some results which would be completely unthinkable here in Australia. The event, organised by the influential South African trucking industry magazine Fleetwatch, saw a day of information and lectures for traffic enforcement police officers [...]

Idiot driving recorded in Melbourne, but it could be anywhere. This video isn’t anything special, all of these things happen to most truck drivers every day. What is great is the way this truckie has recorded it all including date, time and the rego of the offenders. In Truck Footage. Driving in Melbourne.Follow my videos [...]

etruck has taken a Volvo FH 600 out for a spin, hauling a fully loaded B-double set out of Brisbane and up the Cunningham Gap to Warwick before heading to Toowoomba, and down the perilous range there, then heading back into Brisbane. The main aim of the test was to look at the capabilities of [...]

Every truckie thinks they are the best driver on the road, it comes with the job. Well, now there’s a chance to put your money where your mouth is. It’s the last week of entries to the Scania Young Australian Truck Driver of the Year competition. By young, they mean under 40, so if you [...]

Forget about air compressors and air tanks on trucks, a new kid is on the block. At the recent Cambridge Vehicle Dynamics Consortium demonstration in the UK, Haldex have been showing off a braking system using just electricity to run the whole system, including applying the brakes. This report on the Big Lorry Blog gives [...]

Here is the exciting last round of the Young European Truck Driver, won by Andreas Soderstromm from Sweden in a tense final test. Here in Australia the tension is building in advance of our own Young Australian Truck Driver competition to be held in Melbourne in November. It may not be quite such a big [...]

Western Australian truckie Twocrowsdown has posted this video about one of those jobs which takes a long time in the trucking industry but goes unaccounted for in any working time calculations. Yes, the truck can get loaded and unloaded in super quick time but jobs like checking the tyres haven’t changed since Adam was a [...]

This video demonstrates a new idea to help trucks avoid hitting cyclists and pedestrians on busy city streets. Instead of cluttering up the driver’s field of view with a myriad of monitors, the system simply alerts the driver to the presence of someone to the left in the blindspot when they click on the indicator. [...]