Here is a long time campaigner in the livestock transport industry, John Beer, talking about a safer way to load cattle using a new access landing system to avoid climbing on the trailers. A former Australian Livestock and Rural Transporters Association President, John is always looking for practical safety solutions and tells us more about it in his customary laconic way.
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Tipping Top Ten Tips
Diesel News presents the Tipping Top Ten Tips from truckies on YouTube showing off their tipping dog trailer reversing skills and showing us all how to do it. Experienced tipper and dog drivers know all
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Close Call for Dash Cam Site
This week has seen a close call for dash cam site operators Dash Cams Owners Australia. The YouTube channel, which has brought Diesel News readers so many near misses and brainless car drivers around trucks
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360 Degrees of Vision
This new system giving the truck driver 360 degrees of vision around their truck is with us now. This system uses the four cameras on each side of the truck to create a helicopter view of the truck and
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Truckies as Baddies
This election ad doesn’t help anyone. All we are doing here is reinforcing the impression the trucking industry is highly dangerous and truckies are going around killing children. Yes, make an ad
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On the Slide
This is one of those videos which makes life very uncomfortable for many in the industry. It’s an unloaded A-double set pulling up at the lights in wet conditions. The lead trailer goes sideways,
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Road Trains and Girls
Female road train drivers have become a feature of the trucking industry in the remote areas of Australia, especially in the mining sector. Here is an example of the kind of women starting to work in trucking.
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Truck Show Tour
Take a tour of the Commercial Vehicle Show in the UK. Here a couple of reprobate UK truck journos travel from stand to stand looking for food and drink.
However, there are a couple of interesting
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Mechanics with Back Problems
The world is changing, truck technicians are not expected to damage their bodies just fixing trucks. Innovations like this one for use when maintaining brakes are becoming more and more common. Last week,
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ITTES Opening Day
Yesterday was the opening day of the International Truck Trailer and Equipment Show in Melbourne. It’s still on today and tomorrow, so, get yourself down to the Melbourne Showgrounds.
Here’s
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