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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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Here’s a very simple but practical way of avoiding the struggle to couple and uncouple trailers. Everything can be done standing on the ground improving safety and cutting dowwn on the mess susies can make on your cloths fighting with them on the gantry behind the cab. Click link below to see video.

Here is a great video on YouTube, it’s one of a series of adverts for a Dutch insurance company looking at the funnier side of life as a truck driver.

Isuzu’s Director and Chief Operating Officer, Phil Taylor. is drawing the industry’s attention to the yawning gap between the public perception of trucks on the road and the actual facts as they stand today. On reading the report from a recent survey into the public attitude towards the transport industry there is a very obvious [...]

Two separate surveys released in recent months appear to contradict each other with the results contrasting strongly in terms of the pressure trucking people are under when going about their work.