Dangerous goods placards are warning signs displayed on a truck, trailer, container or portable tank that warn other drivers and emergency services personnel that a vehicle is carrying potentially hazardous materials. Underneath certain weights, volumes or masses, vehicles don’t have…
When a young person has a fatal accident on the roads, there are often calls for the driving age to be raised from 16 to 17. Is this a good idea? In Australia, we have a graduated driver licencing system…
For various reasons, drivers change their tyres for ones which have a different width to the ones that came as standard. There are limits to how much extra width you are allowed on a wheel rim. Advantages of wider tyres…
However much you are fond of your car, sooner or later it will decay to the point of uselessness unless you maintain it. In many cases, it will become uneconomical to maintain as technology moves on. Or you’ll just want…
When you get in your vehicle and it’s hot, run the air conditioning immediately, but leave the doors or windows open until the temperature inside the cabin normalises to the temperature outside the cabin. This means that air being passed…
Air conditioning helps a driver to stay focussed as excessive heat can lead to dehydration and discomfort within the vehicle’s cabin – something that’s important for long-distance drivers to avoid as driving dehydrated is like driving with alcohol in your…
Truck-mounted crane and truck loader crane refer to a truck which has a crane either at the rear or just behind that cab which is used to load and unload goods from the truck’s deck. It’s sometimes called a Hiab…
