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Hours of Service * Australia - Unique HOS Enforcement
Truckies go to the dark side
Sydney,Australia -The Sydney Morning Herald, by Carmel Egan -December 16, 2007: -- Interstate truck drivers are switching off their lights to hurtle through the dark at 100kmh - and swerving to the wrong side of the highway - to avoid cameras... The truck drivers are turning their lights off to avoid detection by Safe- T-Cam, a network of point-to-point fixed cameras that collect, verify and store data on heavy vehicle movements on major arterial roads.The systems - designed to combat heavy-vehicle driver fatigue - are positioned throughout NSW and South Australia but also catch drivers entering and exiting Victoria... The overhead cameras focus on the driver’s face and the truck’s front number plate so their identities can be verified during police logbook checks...
COMMENT by Wayne Weisser/Life on the Road (USA) -Dec 15, 2007: -- They are avoiding the cameras because: I used to have the attitude that HOS needed to be strictly enforced, until they came up with rules I didn’t like. Even as a team we had trouble driving strictly by latest must drive 11 hours before stopping rule. What’s wrong with a little flexiblity in allowing drivers to rest when they want to rest, instead of forcing drives to drive when they’re tired and rest when they’re not... Just like this article, it only takes a few idiots to mess it up for the rest of us... (I know this is from Australia, but it shows the technology available...)
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