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Automatic braking, improving CDL accuracy included in department-wide shift to close agency oversight gaps

Helpful Tips on How You Can Help Save a Highway Worker’s Life

It was a truly shocking Easter on Australian roads with an appalling double-fatality in which a truck driver was incinerated in a head-on crash. Elsewhere, a drunk big rig driver faced an Australian court after driving backwards down a motorway and then jack-knifing his double-B into a gas station. Meanwhile, following a two-year study, Australian sleep scientists warned truckers that prolonged eye closure is a sign of drowsiness. And, finally, trucking corporations have been introducing new products, buying out shareholders and attempting hostile takeovers. It’s another week in Down Under Trucking.

People between the ages of 15 and 25 are twice as likely to be involved in a fatal vehicle accident.