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TRUCKING INDUSTRY * Australia: Anti-roll systems
* NSW - Rollover control mandated on dangerous goods tankers in
Sydney,NSW,Australia -ATN -16 Sept 2014: -- Companies given until January 2019 to fit anti-roll systems on all trailers, not just new ones... The New South Wales Government has announced that all dangerous good trailers travelling on roads in the state must be fitted with rollover control by the start of 2019... The Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has made the determination under dangerous goods regulations in response to a number of fatal fuel tanker collisions in NSW... Rollover control can also be known as ‘Roll stability system’ or ‘Roll stability function’... The EPA’s director of hazardous incidents and environmental health, Craig Lamberton, says the determination means that all existing dangerous goods tank trailers must be fitted with rollover control by January 1, 2019, if their owners want to keep operating them... COMMENT by John McKerrall Lambert (Geelong, Victoria, Australia) -20 Sept 2014: Says "... I’ve tracked down the Coroner’s Finding which does not identify any ESC experts... I obtained photographs from news articles online - there is no indication that the vehicle was in a rollover situation on the curve - in fact the primemover was in an upright position when it burned... So ESC would have been irrelevant in this case in respect of preventing deaths... Further note that ESC has limited influence on prevented the rollover – ESC cannot overcome the laws of physics. If a vehicle enters a corner much too fast ESC cannot correct the situation..."
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