Show Notes
Three heavy-vehicle licence assessors have been pulled from the NSW scheme and referred to police after a joint Transport for NSW/NHVR crackdown across Tweed Heads and Lismore. Rod Hannifey and Luke Bona ask what it means for every driver those assessors trained — and a listener writes in with an anonymous, unverified account of "brown paper bag" backhanders allegedly pushing safe local trucking contracts to cheaper, non-local operators.
Plus: a $100 million funding boost for the Great Western Highway's Blue Mountains rebuild, a $10,000 free training pathway launching for Cairns jobseekers, the NHVR's latest fatigue blitz results (6,100+ heavy vehicles checked, non-compliance on the rise), a Legal Win of the Week from Hughes Law's Belinda Hughes, and Rod's rant on logbook fines that treat honest paperwork mistakes as deceit.
Guests: Rod Hannifey (Truckie Tuesday co-host, National Road Freighters Association) · Belinda Hughes (Principal, Hughes Law)
(00:00) Cold Open & Intro (01:04) $10,000 Free Training For Cairns Jobseekers (03:30) $100M For The Great Western Highway (06:27) NHVR Fatigue Blitz Results (09:31) 3 Licence Assessors Referred To Police (12:07) A Listener's Backhander Warning (17:09) Hughes Law: Win Of The Week (20:59) Rod's Rant: Weighbridge And Logbook Fines (24:06) Sign-Off
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