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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. [...]

The Victorian Government are wanting to get good publicity out of the fact work is starting on dualling the Western Highway from Ballarat to Stawell but manage to put the trucking industry offside and create problems for themselves in Melbourne at the same time. Are they spinning themselves into trouble? By using some statistics about [...]

There is an ever increasing amount of electronics is modern trucks and a large proportion of the new systems are safety related. It’s great to have all of this whizz-bang stuff available but for many drivers iPod and DVD player connectivity is probably more important than any systems supposed to make their life a little [...]

The Lights on the Hill Trucking Memorial at Gatton in Queensland has released a second compilation album, including a selection of songs, ballads and some truckie’s favourites, to raise funds for the memorial. There are original songs included from well-known artists like Travis Sinclair, Paul Costa, Jayne Denhan, Kathy Sunners and Michael Pincott as well [...]

What ever happened to the competent truck driver? Is the skill level in the industry so low? Here are two examples, from Europe, of what truck driving has come to. One is a system put in place to compensate for the fact truck drivers can’t back a trailer further than 10 metres and the second [...]

Here’s a video being put out by the Victoria government trying to cut down on the incidence of rollovers on the highway. This appears to have been stimulated by the laudable work done by the Victorian Road Freight Advisory Council who have set up a number of initiatives to improve truck safety. VicRoads are going [...]

One of the big topics here at the ATA Convention is the so called ‘Chain of responsibility’ and a panel discussion has got some of the issues out in the open. Those involved in the whole process of protecting transport operators from prosecution under the COR laws try to explain how difficult it is to [...]

For the duration of Truckweek, Australia’s truck drivers have been asked to ‘slow down and be courteous to other road users as part of Truckweek 2010′. They have been asked by ATA Chairman Trevor Martyn to make an extra effort for the sake of the industry’s image with the general public. This is always the [...]