The Australian Trucking Association’s travelling road safety and industry exhibition, the Road Ahead, is on the road and heading to Moree for the North West NSW heavy vehicle breakfast forum on Tuesday 31 July.
The Road Ahead is a semi-trailer filled with games and displays about how to drive safely around trucks, the trucking industry and industry careers. A regular visitor to schools and events across Australia, almost 70,000 people have visited the exhibition since it was launched in 2008.
The Chief Executive of the ATA, Stuart St Clair, and the National Manager of the ATA’s TruckSafe program, Justin Fleming, will travel with the exhibition and attend the forum, before continuing on to the NatRoad Conference in Queensland.
“The Moree area relies heavily on road transport to take its agricultural wealth from the fields to the market, so road safety is a priority for the industry, government and community,” St Clair said.
“Through the Road Ahead, the industry helps motorists understand how to share the road safely with trucks, with simple tips like not cutting in front of trucks, and staying out of our blindspots.”
TruckSafe is the Australian trucking industry’s own accreditation program. Administered by the ATA, TruckSafe members must show compliance with four key standards: training, maintenance, workplace safety and driver health, and management.
Fleming said he looked forward to the opportunity to talk to local operators from the Moree region. “TruckSafe operators are amongst the safest operators in Australia, and there’s no doubt that safety is good business,” he said.
“I invite operators at the forum to come and have a chat at the TruckSafe booth to find out more about the program and what we can do to make their businesses twice as safe.”
The North West NSW heavy vehicle forum is an initiative of the Moree Plains and Gwydir shire councils to assist the industry and local community to share the road safely. This year’s forum features presentations on heavy vehicle compliance and enforcement, chain of responsibility and the upcoming National Heavy Vehicle Regulator.
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