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The article focuses on the 2022 Major Accident Report by the National Transport Insurance (NTI) in Australia, which found that safety performance of the trucking industry has improved significantly in 2022. According to the report, example, there has been 50 percent reduction in fatigue-related accidents following the introduction of standardized logbooks and driving hours reforms by the government.

The article focuses on the TruckSafe accreditation system which provides safety and professionalism among trucking operators and drivers. The Australian Trucking Association (ATA) subsidiary says that for a trucking business which aims to be accredited must prove its commitment to responsible work practices, healthy drivers, and well-maintained vehicles. It adds that the scheme was derived from the Grafton truck and bus crash in 1989 which concepts were broaden by the TruckSafe.

The article discusses the statistics released in March 2011 by the Australian Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) which reveals that the number of fatal crashes associated with articulated trucks increased in 2010. It says that there were 160 deaths and 130 fatal crashes involving the trucks in the year ending June 2010 compared in the year ending June 2009. It adds that fatal accidents involving rigid trucks fell from 93 in 2009 to 64 in 2010.

The article offers news briefs related to the mining industry in Australia. The Mines Inspectorate released a safety alert after a trailer became disconnected from a loader and clashed with a ramp conveyor. Ensham coal mine was discharging contaminated water into the Nogoa River after heavy rain flooded in central Queensland. A 53-year-old female workers was killed in a truck accident at Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines' Super Pit mine.

The article reports that a cone-shaped 100-tonne truck loading bin fell at a mine site in New South Wales. The incident occurred 48 hours after a worker raised this concern about bin with management. Preliminary investigations have indicated the two lower sections of the bin had been previously removed for liner replacement, thus, noted that bolt holes on the support flanges had been elongated which had allowed some bolts to pull through the holes in the support flange.

Reports that the Centre for Autonomous Systems and CRC Mining have created the HaulCheck system to prevent driver fatigue-related accidents on haul roads. Use of an onboard monitoring system to create a virtual corridor within the haul road; Scanners' use of a laser sensor to measure the distance of the vehicle from PVC markers; Susceptibility of haul truck drivers to micro sleeping and impaired alertness due to fatigue; Incorporation of visual and auditory alarms; Features of AcuMine's OreCheck millimeter wave radar which is positioned at the top of ore pass shafts.