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TRUCKS ACCIDENTS & PREVENTION ONES * Australia
* South Australia - Coroner queries: Driver skills & Vehicle maintenance
Adelaide,SA,Australia -ATN, by Rob McKay -13 Jan 2015: -- Bad driving decisions before long descent and faulty trailer brakes seen as contributing to fatalities. While the bulk of South Australian deputy coroner, Anthony Schapel’s, recommendations related to driver responsibilities, he puts much weight on the lack of skill both drivers had in long, steep descents and the lack of proper maintenance and teeth in efforts to ensure it was undertaken... SA coroner queries driver skills and vehicle maintenance regime. Truck and trailer maintenance and driver skills are two themes running through Schapel’s findings on two fatal truck crashes on the South Eastern Freeway... State transport and infrastructure minister Stephen Mullighan says, his government is responding already...
* South Australia - Coroner’s South Eastern Freeway calls ‘will struggle to get up’
Regency Park,SA,Australia -ATN, by Rob McKay-13 Jan 2015: -- Two South Australian truck crash inquests result in 21 recommendations with some relating to interstate operations... While South Australian changes to how trucks use the South Eastern Freeway are underway, it is not certain how many coronial recommendations following inquests into two fatal semi-trailer crashes will be realised... State transport and infrastructure minister Stephen Mullighan says some of SA deputy coroner Anthony Schapel’s recommendations were already being implemented... South Australian Road Transport Association (SARTA) executive director Steve Shearer says the industry supports the thrust of the recommendations, but points to difficulties related to those with a national impact, such as training and supervision of drivers who have yet to make the descent, including for interstate drivers. For example: Shearer says, "For a journey that only takes 10 minutes, you wouldn’t send [an extra] driver from Brisbane to Adelaide – and it’s largely unenforceable" ... Shearer says SARTA is awaiting government computer modelling on the likely impact on traffic flows of the idea, which is due in some weeks...
* Truck involved in fatal crash on South Eastern Freeway ‘showed loss of control’ as it passed arrester bed
* Victoria - Freighter boss highlights new trailer brake rules
Derrimut,VIC,Australia -ATN -6 Jan 2015: -- Equipment made after January 1 must be compliant with new trailer brake rules... The entry into force this month of new trailer braking rules has sparked an alert from the boss of Freighter... The call comes almost a year after the Federal Government announced the new Australian Design Rule, ADR38/04... This covers the kinds of brakes that must be installed on semi-trailers and, broadly, relates to a shift towards more advanced and safer brake systems, Mario Colosimo, general manager of MaxiTrans firm Freighter, says... In force from January 1 the new rule mandates the following major changes:
* Trailers to have either anti-lock brakes − anti-lock braking system (ABS) or electronic braking system (EBS) − or a load-proportioning brake system
* A trailer with anti-lock brakes (ABS or EBS) must have automatically adjusting brakes (which means either disc brakes, or drum brakes with automatic slack adjusters)
* Trailers with anti-lock brakes (ABS or EBS) will need to have 2 axles sensed on a tri-axle group.
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