Show Notes
Rod Hannifey has been doing the numbers. He reckons 80 to 85 per cent of Australian truck drivers do everything right, another 10 to 15 per cent get pushed too hard by a boss or a customer, and fewer than 5 per cent have decided the rules do not apply to them. What worries him is that police ministers and commissioners seem increasingly willing to talk about the whole industry as though it were that last 5 per cent. This week he puts those figures to you directly and asks whether they match the industry you know, and what could actually be done about it. Rod and Luke also work through where your electronic work diary data ends up once Transport Certification Australia is holding it, and what happens when AI is pointed at five years of records. NatRoad chief executive Warren Clark has written about operators still signing contracts with no fuel recovery clause, which leads into something Rod has been watching from the road: whole fleets appearing at auction, and the undercutting spiral that follows when that gear sells cheap. There is Toll's new hydrogen prime mover rollout with Viva Energy and BlueScope, the story of what really happened to LPG, and Victoria's five proposed heavy vehicle licensing reforms, which prompt the line of the episode: we do not have a driver shortage, we have a shortage of people who want to be drivers.
And for R U OK Day, Rod makes the case for ringing a mate, with a number from his own Christmas phone calls that is hard to hear.
Plus a copy of Toots: Woman in a Man's World by Donna Vawdrey to give away, a Hughes Law court win teased for next week, and Where's Rod Been returns with an Ian Moss clue.
⚠ Content warning: this episode includes a brief, non-graphic discussion of suicide during the R U OK Day segment. Listener discretion advised. Support: Lifeline 13 11 14 (24/7)
Guests: Rod Hannifey (Truckie Tuesday co-host, National Road Freighters Association)
(00:00) Cold Open & G'day From The Dubbo Yard (00:51) Book Giveaway: Toots, Woman In A Man's World (04:00) Justin's Voicemail: The Gap In Front Of The Truck (06:28) Dashcams, Triple Zero And Dobbing (09:16) Ross's Voicemail: Three Kinds Of Fatigue (12:46) Darren's Voicemail: Automatic High Beams (17:07) In-Cab Cameras, The TCA And Your Data (20:26) NatRoad's Warren Clark On Fuel Contracts (21:48) Whole Fleets Going To Auction (25:50) Petrol Prices, Cost Of Living And Theft (27:25) Toll's Hydrogen Prime Movers (31:53) Trailers That Make Their Own Power (34:26) Victoria Rewrites Heavy Vehicle Licensing (36:37) We Don't Have A Driver Shortage (39:04) R U OK Day: Ring A Mate (42:49) Rod's Rant: The 80/15/5 Split (45:10) Where's Rod Been? The Reveal
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