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Nov 16, 2012

TRUCKING INDUSTRY NEWS * Australia

* NSW - Government amends tri-axle converter dollies rules

Sydney,New South Wales,Australia -ATA Friday Facts -16 Nov 2012: -- The NSW Government has enabled operators to use more existing equipment with tri-axle converter dollies, following technical advice from the ATA... In a gazette notice today, the state government amended its tri-axle converter dolly rules to bring them more into line with national practice... Under the new notice, the NSW Government will now require a type 1 road train with a tri-axle converter dolly to maintain a spacing of not less than 26.5 metres between its outermost axles. The ATA estimates that 95 per cent of existing legal road train components can be used to make up combinations that meet this requirement... ATA Technical Manager, Bob Woodward, said the association had prepared a paper at the invitation of NSW RMS to show how the state’s road train rules could be improved to reflect the equipment in service...


* ACT - Road deaths Australia: October 2012 

(Getty Images, by Ian Waldie: Road deaths have been recorded in Western Australia, Victoria and the Northern Territory today)
Canberra,ACT,Australia -ATA Friday Facts -16 Nov 2012: -- The latest Road Deaths Australia report shows there were 118 road deaths in October 2012 - 27 more than in October 2011... The total road toll in the year ending October 2012 was 1,354, which showed a 7.5 per cent increase from the 1,259 deaths in the year ending June 2011... Produced by the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics, the road deaths Australia reports are produced monthly, and compare road death data from the last five years to the current month... The October report shows that this increase in road fatalities has come from the 26-39 and over 60 age groups, with those under 25 and the 40 to 59 age groups showing a reduction of fatalities in the last 12 months... Fatal crashes have increased in areas with a posted speed limit of 90 km/h or less, with areas posted at 100 km/h or more showing its lowest number of fatal crashes for the past five years...

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