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May 1, 2015

TRUCKING DEBATE * USA: About truck safety

* Missouri - Truckers tell Congress that FMCSA should review regulations for impact on safety

-- The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association gave testimony on behalf of professional and small business truckers before the U.S.A. House Transportation & Infrastructure Subcommittee on Highways and Transit. OOIDA told Congress that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration needs to have a review of existing safety regulations for their effectiveness and impact on highway safety... OOIDA stated that instead of a reasoned understanding and approach to improving highway safety by addressing the key factors behind at-fault truck crashes, FMCSA policy and enforcement is hyper-focused on absolute compliance with the letter of every single regulation – no matter the connection to at-fault crashes... OOIDA contends that under its current methodology, the agency’s safety scoring system inaccurately paints safe, small carriers as unsafe, reducing access to business and opening them up to misguided enforcement activities. Meanwhile, truly unsafe carriers that crash frequently get ignored... The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association was established in 1973, and it's the only national trade association representing the interests of small-business trucking professionals and professional truck drivers. The Association currently has more than 150,000 members nationwide... OOIDA represents the small business truckers that are the majority of the trucking industry. More than 90 percent of U.S.A. carriers own 20 or fewer trucks, and half of all carriers are one-truck operations... The average small business trucker has driven more than 20 years and 2 million accident-free miles... 
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* DC - GOP spending bill reignites trucking debate
-- Safety groups have accused GOP lawmakers of using the appropriations process to undo a series of trucking regulations they say makes U.S.A. roads safer, including limits on the length and weight of trucks that have been opposed by trucking companies for years... The GOP measure provides $55.3 billion in funding the departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development, but the measure also includes a number of provisions dealing with policy issues like trucking regulations... The measure increases the limit on truck lengths to 84 feet and takes aim at a controversial set of scheduling rules that were implemented by the Obama administration to reduce fatigue among truck drivers... Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx sharply criticized Republicans for including the policy riders in the appropriations bill for his agency on Tuesday.... The trucking industry offered a starkly different perspective, saying the provisions that are included in the THUD bill have been on Congress’s agenda for a long time... “They’re the same issues we’ve been talking about for years, and now we’re going to talk about them again,” he said... 
(Photo from Wikimedia Commons) -- Washington, DC, USA - The Hills, by Keith Laing - 29 April 2015

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Oct 7, 2014

TRUCKERS' CLAIMS * Australia: Save the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal

* ACT - Truckers' lives on the line as Muir moves to act

Canberra,ACT,Australia -Sunshine Coast Daily, by Daniel Burdon -6th Oct 2014: ... Crossbencher Australian Motorists Enthusiasts Party Senator Ricky Muir, Labor Senator Glenn Sterle and Liberal Chris Back have put their support behind the Transport Workers' Union campaign to save the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal, road safety tribunal, amid claims the pressure placed on truckers to meet strict delivery deadlines is causing un-counted deaths on Australian roads... The tribunal, TWU assistant secretary Michael Kaine said, was crucial to preventing mounting pressure being placed on truck drivers to meet "unrealistic deadlines"... Mr Kaine said the government's plans, as part of its agenda to cut "red tape", was preparing to axe the tribunal... He told APN the tribunal was the only body with the power to intervene when big transport clients like the retail sector "use economic pressure to force faster deliveries at the expense of safe and fair conditions for truck drivers"... Rather, the group called on the government to abandon the plans to axe the tribunal, citing new polling data commissioned by the union which showed some 73% of the 1000-odd people surveyed believed big companies should be held to account if placing such pressures on truck drivers...

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Feb 14, 2012

SAFE ROADS * USA

* Florida - Commercial Truck Drivers are Safest on the Road

Dunnellon,FLO,USA -Ask The Trucker, by Allen Smith -January 25, 2012: -- Safety advocate groups continue to argue that commercial motor vehicle drivers contribute a major danger to road safety. Organizations and political leaders tend to bow to their suggestions in relationship to their own agendas...  SafeRoads.org is one of the largest voices condemning professional truck drivers and motor carriers concerning highway safety, often mentioning that fatigue is a “contributing factor in as many as 30-40% of all heavy truck crashes.” The problem with this statement is that it is completely false...   Today, the truth is that commercial trucks are involved in 2.4% of all car accidents and more than 80% of those accidents are the fault of the non-commercial driver. Furthermore, only 16% of all truck driving accidents are due to the truck driver’s fault and of those death related accidents, only 4% of trucks are fatigue related... According to the FMCSA, truck driver fatigue was a factor in just 1.4% of all fatal truck accidents...  A motorist who drives 100,000 miles a year has 20 times the accident exposure risk than a driver who logs 10,000 miles in a year. The more miles spent behind the wheel, obviously will raise the accident/fatality factor... Who would you consider to be the safest driver? The auto driver with one accident in two years after 24,000 miles or the truck driver with two accidents in two years after 200,000 miles? ...   Now that we see that five major motor carriers and their professional truck drivers have an over-all accident average of  0.1126 per 100,000 miles driven and an over-all fatality average of .0012 per 100,000 miles driven . . . Let us compare these rates with the non-commercial driver:
- As of May 19th, 2010 – the fatality rate for auto drivers in the state of Arizona, was 2.1 per 100,000 miles driven.
As further examples, for 2007, the last date for available data, the fatality rate for auto drivers, per 100,000 miles driven were:
- Massachusetts – 0.76
- Rhode Island – 0.80
- Pennsylvania – 1.37
- Louisiana – 2.17
- Montana – 2.45
Crashes involving big trucks make for big news and although one life lost is a tragedy, safety groups and non-commercial drivers need to look at the true, hard facts when it comes to who are really the safest drivers on the road...

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Nov 23, 2011

ROAD SAFETY * UK

* Coalition "reckless" with UK road safety, says Labour

London,EN,UK -Road Transport, by Chris Druce -21 November 2011: -- Labour has accused the coalition of being “reckless” when it comes to UK road safety, citing the decision to approve the trial of longer semi-trailers last month as indicative of the government’s stance on the issue...  In a statement issued at the start of Road Safety Week, Labour Shadow Transport Secretary, Maria Eagle, says the government is out of touch with drivers’ wishes...  “Over the past year the government has cut road safety grants by 40%, removed all funding for speed cameras, and approved a trial of longer HGVs,” says Eagle...  Labour points to a recent upward trend in UK road deaths and calls on recently appointed transport secretary, Justine Greening, to “rip up her predecessor’s reckless plans”...

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Aug 28, 2009

Safety Record * USA - Lawyers association rakes truck one

Des Moines,IOW,USA -The Des Moines Register, by WILLIAM PETROSKI -August 27, 2009: -- A lawyers group criticized Iowa trucking firms Wednesday for having a history of safety violations, but trucking officials responded that their industry is operating more safely than ever... More than 950 Iowa trucking firms operating 6,800 trucks have been cited for violating federal safety regulations since 1980, reported the American Association for Justice, formerly known as the Association of Trial Lawyers of America... The violations include defective brakes, bald tires, loads that dangerously exceed weight limits, and drivers with little or no training or drug and alcohol dependencies, the study said... The American Trucking Associations, an industry group in Arlington, Va., disputed the findings, noting the fatality rate for crashes involving large trucks is the lowest it's been since federal officials began keeping statistics in 1975... (Photo from sciencedaily.com)


* Labor Day Holiday Travel Alert: More than 19% of WI Truck Companies Have Safety Regulation Violations

Madison,WIS,USA -Racine News -27 Aug 2009: -- Over 8000 Trucks Lack Minimum Safety Standards, Including Adequate Insurance, Qualified Drivers and Functioning Brakes... As nearly 30 million Americans travel U.S. roads during the Labor Day holiday, a new analysis of government data reveals that over 1000 Wisconsin motor carrier companies have violated federal safety regulations, operating over a thousand unsafe trucks on our state roadways... In an original analysis of data not previously seen by the public, the American Association for Justice (AAJ) found Wisconsin drivers are sharing roads with trucks that have incurred thousands of safety violations – such as defective brakes, bald tires, loads that dangerously exceed weight limits and drivers with little or no training or drug and alcohol dependencies... AAJ and the Wisconsin Association for Justice (WAJ) obtained data on the safety performance of U.S. trucking companies through the Motor Carrier Management Information System (MCMIS), which is maintained by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)...

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Mar 31, 2009

TRUCKERS' SAFETY * USA - Not economic concerns, should be VDOT’s first priority

Richmond,VA,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Clarissa Kell-Holland -March 27, 2009: -- In Virginia, 25 rest areas and the valuable parking spots they provide for the motoring public are on the endangered list as the Virginia Department of Transportation looks for ways to cut costs... At a public meeting in Richmond on March 26, more than 75 people, including several truckers, expressed their concern about the rest area closure proposal... OOIDA Regulatory Affairs Specialist Joe Rajkovacz said the simple answer to VDOT’s dilemma is to spend less money paving a “few miles of road” and to focus more on highway safety like providing “safe havens” for truckers and motorists... “Their (VDOT’s) first priority should be about ensuring highway safety for the entire motoring public, not about saving money,” he told Land Line Magazine a day after the public meeting in Richmond. “Their attitude that this is just a cost-saving measure shows callous disregard for highway safety”... (Photo from media.insidenova: Virginia's Rest Area)


* North Dakota, Minnesota suspend rules for truckers providing relief efforts

MINN,USA -Land Line Magazine -March 27, 2009: -- With the widespread flooding the governors of both North Dakota and Minnesota have temporarily suspended various trucking regulations for truckers providing relief efforts... North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven waived the hours-of-service requirements for trucks and buses providing relief supplies or transporting people to or from the flooded areas... In Minnesota, Gov. Tim Pawlenty waived hours of service regs, weight restrictions and various required permits for motor carriers hauling relief supplies to flooded areas of the state... (Photo LATimes: The widespread flooding in North Dakota and Minnesota)

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Mar 11, 2009

Safety Experts * USA - Truck-Car Collisions Can Be Made Safer

Chicago,ILL,USA -Chicago CBS, by Pam Zekman ―March 5, 2009: -- ... It's one of the scariest sights for a motorist: You're eye-level with a semi trailer, and your car is heading for a collision. Like the accident on I-94 that killed a newly engaged couple that was driving to a Thanksgiving dinner. "The roads were icy, and their car slid underneath the long side of the trailer," said Lois Sadigh, mother of one of the victims... They're called side underride accidents. That's when a car crashes underneath the trailer of a semi-truck. Oftentimes, the massive wheels crush the car and whoever's in it... Ten years ago, federal regulations went into effect requiring rear guards on most new semi-truck trailers. But nothing was done to provide similar guards on the sides of the trailers. They're needed, says Joan Claybrook, a former federal highway safety official... The trucking industry opposes sideguards, saying they would weigh too much and cost too much... A spokeswoman for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says the sides of trailers would need to be significantly re-designed and strengthened to make a guard useful -- a claim safety experts deny... (Photo: A typical Rear and Side Underride Accident)

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Mar 10, 2009

SAFETY DEBATE * Australia - RTA camera plan ignores the real cause of crashes

Sydney,NSW,Australia -Logistics Magazine -2 March 2009 : -- The NSW RTA’s plan to use fixed cameras to stop speeding trucks will not improve road safety because it ignores the real causes of truck crashes, the manager of ATA NSW, Jill Lewis, says... According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the RTA wants to fine truck drivers based on the time they take to journey between Safe-T-Cam points on the state’s road network... But Jill Lewis says the plan ignores the latest research into truck accidents. "The latest accident research shows that 77.5 per cent of speed-related truck crashes are caused by drivers trying to go around corners or roundabouts too fast," she says... (Photo: Fire truck crash)

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Jan 23, 2009

Highway Safety Advocates * USA - Call for Improvement in State Statutes

USA -National Underwriter (Property & Casualty - Risk & Benefits Management Edition), by Mark E. Ruquet-12 Jan 2009: -- According to the "2009 Roadmap to State Highway Safety Laws" report from the Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, a number of jurisdictions have failed to implement proven safety laws. The coalition of insurance, consumer, health, safety, and law enforcement groups recommends the federal government withhold funding from states until proven safety laws are in place. Many of the laws relate to teen driving, drunk driving, and the use of seat belts, child booster seats, and motorcycle helmets, and the group says no state has enacted all 15 proven safety laws. Among the worst states listed in the report were Arkansas, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming because they have less than seven of the laws enacted. Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department Chief Patrick Burke said, "Model safety laws should be consistent across our jurisdictional boundaries."

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Oct 24, 2008

OPINIONS * USA - View of Safety Technology Must Change Before Use Grows

Fleet Executives Say

New Orleans,LA,USA -Transport Topics, by Sean McNally -Oct. 24, 2008: -- Fleet executives said that despite the benefits of using safety technology, attitudes within the industry need to change in order to have wider acceptance... “Clearly, there is a big expense up front, but done right, it can become an investment,” Chris Lofgren, president of Schneider National Inc., said during a panel discussion here at American Trucking Associations’ Management Conference & Exhibition... Craig Harper, chief operating officer of J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc., said the truckload carrier spends “in excess of $50 million” annually on safety technology and training. He said the investment in safety has saved the lives of company drivers and the motoring public... Steve Williams, chairman and chief executive officer of Maverick USA Inc., said his fleet’s use of safety technology “exempted us from an $18.5 million final judgment” after a crash... Rose McMurray, chief safety officer of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, said that trucking fleets can push for wider adoption of technology... “One answer,” she said, “is for companies to try to promote the economic argument about why investing in these technologies pays off”... McMurray added that she thought as larger fleets buy the technology, smaller fleets will eventually follow suit...

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Sep 19, 2008

ROAD SAFETY * USA - Sensors take control to avoid collisions

Each year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes data on fatalities and work-related accidents by occupation. Each year, truck driving ranks between 4th and 10th.

Nashhville,TEN,USA -Road King, by PAUL ABELSON -19 Sept 2008: -- Crash rates have gone down each year, especially when measured in terms of rates per 100 million truck miles traveled but the dangers still exist... Today’s systems are roughly 32 times more capable than when ABS was finally required in the ’90s and was seamlessly integrated into trucking operations. Even more importantly, electronic devices have become miniaturized. Sensors and accelerometers, now smaller than a fingernail, are far more sensitive and responsive than ever before. They can detect rates of changes in motion, process the information and determine the best corrective action when abnormalities occur, all in far less time than a human can even detect that problems are starting...

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Jul 21, 2008

SAFETY * USA - Heavy hitters - Why not make speeding fines for trucks proportional to their weight?

Fredericksburg,VA,USA -The Free Lance-Star -20 July 2008: -- ... The heavier the vehicle and/or the faster it's going, the more momentum it has, and, therefore, the more damage it does when an accident occurs. That's why big trucks ought to carry more weight when it comes to fines for speeding... Unsafe speed is a factor in a third of all highway crashes. To be fair, when a truck is the "core cause" of an accident, traveling too fast is found to be the "critical precrash event" just 18 percent of the time. However, when an 80,000-lb. semi collides with a 3,000-lb. Toyota Prius, it's clear which vehicle is going to take the hit... In fact, 5,000 people die and 130,000 are injured every year in truck accidents. When big rigs and cars clash, 98 percent of the fatalities are in the lighter vehicles...

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May 16, 2008

SAFETY * Australia - Tunnels allow unsafe cargo

Melbourne,Australia -NEWS.com, by Ian Royall -May 16, 2008: -- Road tankers loaded with diesel can be transported through Melbourne's road tunnels even though the fuel is classified as hazardous material... National rules permit bulk quantities of diesel to be carried underground... Diesel is allowed because it ignites at a higher temperature than other chemicals... It follows the heroics of a truckie who kept driving his 35,000-litre load of diesel out of the Burnley Tunnel, as flames poured from his prime mover... CityLink spokeswoman Jennifer Howard said the vehicle did not need to carry a sign indicating that it was carrying hazardous goods... An anti-truck action group said the incident highlighted the need to get trucks off the road and to transport dangerous goods by rail... "This just highlights the vast amounts of truck traffic on our roads," said Elwyn Davies, of the Maribyrnong Truck Action Group . "One thing we'd like to see is more goods being transported by rail." ...

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Apr 12, 2008

ROADS SAFETY * USA - Why insurance companies love red light cameras ?

A recent study out of South Florida claims that the increasingly popular red-light cameras actually can increase crashes

FL,USA -Land Line Magazine -April 11, 2008: -- ... Besides generating revenue for municipalities and the companies that make the systems, the potential for increased crashes – and thus higher insurance rates – lead insurance companies to support their installation... Forget about terrorists posing as convenience store clerks – this is a real paranoid, and terribly logical way of looking at the spread of these cameras... The study, called “Red Light Running Cameras: Would Crashes, Injuries and Automobile Insurance Rates Increase if They are Used in Florida?” can be found here... And here some:

* Conclusions and Recommendations
The theory behind red light cameras as potentially effective is that they rely on deterring red light running primarily through punishment of a specific driving behavior and secondarily by changing drivers’ experience. By definition, the punishable behavior and resulting potentially harmful action will already have taken place when a ticket is issued. In other words, the crash, injury, and mortality risks do not change immediately, if at all.
In contrast, the engineering solutions described below produce immediate reductions in red light running and potential crashes. Thus, even if red light cameras could be effective in the long run, which is debatable, they are associated with an added cost, consisting of fines, crashes and injuries that could have been avoided by using engineering solutions, which are effective in both the short term and the long run.

The following engineering countermeasures are recommended to reduce red light running (FHWA/NHTSA, 2003):

• Improve signal head visibility by increasing size or adding signal heads where one signal head is used for multiple lanes and may be blocked from view.
• Address east-west roads where sun angles silhouette the traffic sign head and add back
plates to enhance visibility.
• Set appropriate yellow light time intervals that allow vehicles to clear the intersection or safely stop that is consistent with the speed limit, road grade and intersection width.
• Add a brief all-red light clearance interval to allow traffic in the intersection to clear prior toreleasing cross traffic.
• Add intersection warning signs or advanced yellow flashing lights or reduce the approach speed to the intersection.
• Coordinate traffic signals to optimize traffic flow, eliminating interruptions.
• Remove on-site parking near intersections to increase visibility of pedestrians and crosstraffic.
• Repair malfunctioning lights and avoid unnecessarily long cycle timings.

If a problem persists after intersection re-engineering, the FHWA and NHTSA (2003) advise the next steps are an education campaign and traditional police enforcement.

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Nov 22, 2007

Reply * USA - Truckers want safer roads too

Regarding Dave Zweifel's column "Trucking lobby's toll is plain to all"... by Lane Kidd, president, Arkansas Trucking Association Inc.

Madison,WI,USA -The Capital Times -21 Nov 2007: -- ... He is correct in observing there are more semitrucks on our highways than 20, even 10, years ago. Our highways are congested. Those of us who work in the industry do not like crowded highways any more than he does... Anyway, he (D.Z.) may have inadvertently stumbled upon the solution. While he chides the industry for "longer and heavier" trucks, eventually the public must decide -- do we want more trucks on our highways or more stuff in each truck?... Those longer and heavier trucks he despises could actually be the answer if approached correctly. We could adopt rules that allow more stuff in each truck as long as we require those companies that haul more products to install additional axles under their trailers to lessen damage to the roads... We could go further to ensure safety -- measures like mandating electronic on-board recorders in all trucks, creating safeguards to ensure equipment inspections, requiring higher taxes but spending them on the highways we drive, and tightening regulations to keep drivers free of drug and alcohol abuse. Taken as a package, we could make our highways less congested and safer for everyone... Zweifel might be surprised to learn that virtually every trucking company owner wants the same things he does -- safer highways -- and ways to make it happen...

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Oct 9, 2007

SAFETY * Australia - Level crossings may have deficient sighting distances

Melbourne,Australia -ATN -5 October 2007: -- The ATSB has found it is likely that some passive level crossings in the Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia and South Australia that are controlled by ‘Stop’ signs and are used by high combined gross mass road vehicles may have deficient sighting distances... The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has released a supplementary report on this potential problem as part of its continuing investigation into the 12 December 2006 collision involving The Ghan on the Fountain Head Road level crossing at Ban Ban Springs, NT... (Picture by Glenn Campbell/The Sydney Morning Herald: The Ghan train derails after colliding with a semi trailer)

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Oct 5, 2007

* USA - Bendix reaffirms safety position

Elyria,OH,USA -Truck News (CAN), by Steven Macleod -4 Oct 2007: -- In its newest position paper, Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems urges the commercial vehicle industry to support and actively participate in activities that can improve highway safety...
In the paper, Bendix identifies the four areas as vital to the improvement of highway safety:

* Exploration of incentives and regulation
* Engagement of the insurance industry
* Support of driver education, technician training, and problem identification
* Development of advanced safety technologies

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Sep 22, 2007

Road Safety ? * China - This trucking company leads the way

Jinhua,China -Moobol/CSR-asia, by Stephen Frost -22 Sept 2007: -- This and other pictures were uploaded by someone who followed the leaning truck of Jinhua for a while and thought it deserved wider publicity. It’s good for a chuckle (unless you’re the driver), but the more serious point is that people are watching. It’s also a good thing it wasn’t an international trucking company… Personally, I’m surprised the whole thing stayed upright...

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Sep 14, 2007

Safety * USA - Boos For Truck Ban

Critics Of Avon Mountain Decision Say Problems Will Surface Elsewhere

Newington,Conn,USA -The Hartford Courant, by KATIE MELONE -September 13, 2007: -- Several Farmington Valley officials joined forces on Wednesday to fight a temporary Avon Mountain ban on large trucks, arguing that it will merely push the problem of unsafe trucks from Route 44 to narrow arterial roads unequipped to handle such traffic... The ban, which runs from Mountain Road on the West Hartford side to the base of the mountain in Avon, does not affect trucks making deliveries from West Hartford to Avon. It will go into effect after the state puts up signs - in about five to 10 days - and will expire Jan. 1... Officials said Wednesday that 30,000 to 35,000 vehicles cross the mountain daily, about 5 percent of which are trucks. Officials did not know how many trucks would be affected by the ban... (Photo by RICK HARTFORD - State Department of Motor Vehicles Inspector David M. Lillis, right, talks to Dan Diaz, of Vernon, left, a driver for New England Transportation, Inc., of South Windsor, after Lillis had Diaz pull his truck over for an inspection on Route 44 in Avon Monday. Lillis said that during his inspection he found an unsecured load in the truck trailer. He also found that the trailer had one flat tire and that the truck chassis had an under-inflated tire. A bar to secure the load was put in place at the scene)

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Jun 21, 2007

Trucking Association * Australia - Demerit system won't boost road safety

The Northern Territory Trucking Association says a demerit points system is not the answer to making the roads safer

Australia -ABC Regional Online -June 20, 2007: -- The Territory system will include penalties for drivers who fail to stop at level crossings... The Association's Executive Officer Peter Goed says while there's no excuse for not stopping at a level crossing, imposing demerit points for Territory truck drivers is not the solution... Mr Goed says a balance needs to be found between penalising people for breaking the law and educating drivers about good behaviour... He says a demerit points systems in other jurisdictions have failed to improve road safety...

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