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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 [...]

With the publication of the latest death and crash statistics involving heavy vehicles for 2008, the road transport industry seems to have reached a plateau in the improvement of road safety. In the past decade total fatal crashes have remained at similar levels year on year with variations in figures at relatively low levels. Fatal [...]

The latest quarterly bulletin from the Australian Transport Safety Board outlines the latest fatal heavy vehicle crash statistics. These figures demonstrate the continuing rise of deaths associated with crashes involving trucks.

Truck drivers and offsiders had a much lower rate of serious road crash injuries than motorists in 2005-06, according to a new report.