Report a Truckie Report Sept 15
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Registration Number: 634QOZ
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Time: 10.15 am to 10.30 am
Date: 15th September 2008
Place of Incident: Bruce Highway South of Gympie approximately 400 metres north of Federal School (High Danger Zone)
Details of Incident: Travelling south on a section of dual highway, as the road become single lane, I was overtaken by the vehicle (heavy and at least dual carriage), carrying logs.
At this point my GPS said that I was “exceeding the speed limit” (programmed to 5 klms below) so I was not holding up the traffic. I was forced to take evasive action as he bore down on me, by crossing the solid line onto the left hand verge of the road, to allow the truck to pass. Fortunately at this point there was no steep drop, as is the case in most of this dangerous section.
I was unable to sight the registration number until the vehicle steadied to climb the road up Black Mountain, when I caught up with him.
I am reporting this incident because I was amazed that this could happen so soon after the many major accidents causing deaths, that had occurred in this treacherous area in the preceding 2 weeks.
September 28th, 2008 at 9:09 am
I think that this report highlights an issue that is also very prevalent in all of us. How many times have we travelled down a stretch of road that we travel nearly every single day and come across another vehicle on their Sunday afternoon drive? I know everyone is putting their hand up. This issue of complacency behind the wheel is an issue that in my opinion is a contributing factor to the middle aged bracket fatalities. For example, we’ve had a new driver not long start with us. I finally met him the other day and in the 1-2 mins I was talking to him, I heard more about how much experience he’s got, how many times around Australia, and that there was nothing that anyone could teach him.
When I arrived to Griffith in the Riverina, I noticed he hadn’t used the appropriate packing between the pallets. A requirement by the customer to whom we cart for.
September 28th, 2008 at 10:24 am
Did you suggest to him that law may have changed with compliance.there have been many law changes.