Do you ever feel nervous driving alongside a large truck? Do you understand the fundamentals of a truck, and where you should be on the road to make it safe for both you and the truck driver? Is there a lack of understanding with what truck drivers face on the roads?
Representing just four per cent of vehicles on Australia’s roads, heavy vehicles are involved in more than 15 per cent of the nation’s road fatalities. Approximately 60 per cent of people killed in heavy truck crashes are light vehicle occupants, and research shows that most of the time these accidents are not the fault of the truck driver.
With the number of trucks on our roads expected to double in the next twenty years, we must ensure road users are aware of the risks of sharing the road with trucks and change our behaviour to reduce crashes and ‘near misses’.
Design students at Swinburne University of Technology were recently given a creative brief that challenged them to raise awareness on sharing the road safely with trucks. Check out this great video on how this program has shifted their attitudes and behaviour towards trucks and truck drivers. A great lesson or reminder to us all.
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Read more here: www.dieselnews.com.au/truck-drivers-are-people-too/
Design students inspire positive change in road safety
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Each year the Re:act program challenges design students to develop creative solutions to serious road safety issues. In 2018 the focus was on sharing the road safely…Trucks, Trailers, Earthmoving and Machinery, everything you could want all in one location!
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Do you ever feel nervous driving alongside a large truck? Do you understand the fundamentals of a truck, and where you should be on the road to make it safe for both you and the truck driver? Is there a lack of understanding with what truck drivers face on the roads?
Representing just four per cent of vehicles on Australia’s roads, heavy vehicles are involved in more than 15 per cent of the nation’s road fatalities. Approximately 60 per cent of people killed in heavy truck crashes are light vehicle occupants, and research shows that most of the time these accidents are not the fault of the truck driver.
With the number of trucks on our roads expected to double in the next twenty years, we must ensure road users are aware of the risks of sharing the road with trucks and change our behaviour to reduce crashes and ‘near misses’.
Design students at Swinburne University of Technology were recently given a creative brief that challenged them to raise awareness on sharing the road safely with trucks. Check out this great video on how this program has shifted their attitudes and behaviour towards trucks and truck drivers. A great lesson or reminder to us all.
player.vimeo.com/video/290808095
Read more here: www.dieselnews.com.au/truck-drivers-are-people-too/
Design students inspire positive change in road safety
vimeo.com
Each year the Re:act program challenges design students to develop creative solutions to serious road safety issues. In 2018 the focus was on sharing the road safely…Trucks, Trailers, Earthmoving and Machinery, everything you could want all in one location!
Head over to one of Victoria's leading auctions of transport equipment, earthmoving equipment, agricultural equipment, mobile plant & machinery and get bidding!
Viewings are available NOW at Pickles auction complex - 12-30 Toll Drive, Altona North, VIC, 3025 with the auction kicking off at 10am TOMORROW.
More information: www.pickles.com.au/trucks/auction/saleinfo/trucks-trailers-earthmoving-and-machinery/Melbourne-VI...
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