Contents

Progress in implementing key recommendations of the 1996 Transport Committee inquiry into truck crashes.

Summary

  • Truck speed limits
  • Workplace safety
  • Other issues
  • Our recommendations

Part 1 – Background

  • Introduction
  • How we carried out our audit
  • What the Committee found in 1996

Part 2 – Response to the Committee’s 7 key recommendations

  • Recommendation 1: Enforcement of speed limits
  • Our findings
  • Recommendation 2: Removal of trucks from the road
  • Our findings
  • Recommendation 3: Weigh station operating times
  • Our findings
  • Recommendations 4 and 5: Operation of the Commercial Vehicle Investigation Unit
  • Our findings
  • Recommendation 6: Ministry of Transport action plan
  • Our findings and recommendations
  • Recommendation 7: Applying the Health and Safety in Employment Act
  • Our findings

Part 3 – Other truck safety initiatives

  • Reducing truck rollover crashes
  • Responsible operator programme
  • Improving truck braking
  • Our findings
  • Fatigue management

Part 4 – Trends in fatal truck crashes

  • Our findings

Appendix – Types of heavy motor vehicles

Figures

  1. The 1996 Transport Committee’s 7 key recommendations
  2. Truck speeds reported by the Transport Committee in 1996
  3. Speeding offence notices issued for heavy motor vehicles 1994-95
  4. Mean open road speeds of each truck type 1995-2004
  5. Mean speeds of all trucks 1995-2004
  6. Heavy motor vehicles exceeding the speed limit by 10km/h or more 1995-2004
  7. Non-speed-camera offences 1997-2003
  8. Speed-camera offences 2001-02
  9. Commercial vehicles ordered off the road since 1998-99
  10. Ratio of detected truck offences to number of trucks checked
  11. Fatal truck crashes per 100 million kilometres travelled
  12. Fatal motor vehicle crashes since 1985
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