Poor navigation and poor “bridge resource management” were the cause of the Maersk container ship, the Leda Maersk, running aground in a New Zealand harbor channel during fair weather.
Truck driver Terry Damon will receive a total of A$1.7 million (US$1.15 million) of compensation from his employer, a shipper and a consignee, after they collectively caused him to suffer a severe injury to his back.
Patrick Terminals in Sydney, Australia, shut down for about 19 hours over Monday, July 8 and Tuesday, July 9 after a worker tragically committed suicide.
Truck driver Patrick Allen Boon must now serve nearly two decades in jail for beating his boss to death with a hammer and wrench in a two-stage attack.
Experts say Aussie trucks should be widened a tiny amount… but officials ain’t listening. Also: truck driver funding; fatigue; drugged drivers.
Australian trucking continues to prove fatally dangerous to drivers with a death rate in Australian road transport nearly six times greater than the national industrial average.
