STAYSAFE 15 : from the Joint Standing Committee upon Road Safety : alert drivers, and safe speeds, for heavy vehicles.

In this report, its first on heavy vehicle safety, STAYSAFE draws attention to the immense casualty costs arising from some heavy vehicle operations in NSW. Articulated trucks, in particular, were each found to be averaging around $23, 000 of casualty costs /year, when operated 300, 000 km /year, which is not unusual. Speed and fatique are large contributors to these immense costs. STAYSAFE has concluded that substantial and worthwhile savings of casualties will flow from requirements to make the heavier vehicles incapable of more than 105 km /h, and to require that certain classes of vehicles, travelling long distances, be fitted with ehicle monitors as well as speed limiters.