A week after the National Bulk Tanker Association (NBTA) urged all fleets to regularly check on truck and trailer couplings, the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) also came out with a safety and compliance alert.
“Our mission is to facilitate, innovate, regulate and issuing timely safety advice to industry is one of the key tasks of a National Regulator,” said NHVR Chief Executive, Sal Petroccitto.
“Our advice to operators who are working with dog trailers, pig trailers and road train dollies is that they should read this safety advice closely and should consider actions they can take to assure the integrity of their trailer or dolly coupling systems, with a particular focus on the tow eye fitment.
“Our safety and compliance alert outlines the facts so far and identifies issues for operators to consider should they undertake inspections.”
Petroccitto added, “As a national Regulator, we are very aware that safety doesn’t stop at the border. We are working with our frontline compliance arms in all states to make sure the right information is shared across all agencies and to determine what coordinated action authorities can take to prevent [accidents from] happening again.
The NHVR Safety and Compliance Alert 1/2014 is available here.
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