Emergency vehicles – police, fire, ambulance, marine rescue and others – use a type of marking called a Sillitoe Tartan. This chequered pattern was introduced in 1961 and gradually adopted nationwide through the 1970s. It is applied in a stripe…
Emergency vehicles – police, fire, ambulance, marine rescue and others – use a type of marking called a Sillitoe Tartan. This chequered pattern was introduced in 1961 and gradually adopted nationwide through the 1970s. It is applied in a stripe…
What is the swept path? Long vehicles have to move out wider to set the vehicle up for a turn because their rear wheels follow a path that forms a tighter circle than the front wheels. The area between the curve…
If you are in a school zone parking penalties are particularly onerous and result in steep fines and demerit points during school hours. The rules are there to improve the safety of child pedestrians and to reduce traffic congestion around…
Ramp metering is when traffic lights are used on motorway on-ramps to restrict the number and timing of vehicles allowed to enter the motorway. Traffic is held back in order to break up platoons of vehicles which make it difficult…
A police officer can stop you for a random roadside inspection if you are driving a car or motorbike. There are vehicle standards in Australia which all vehicles must comply with which define a set of rules which ensures that vehicles operating…
Intersections are the most dangerous place on the road. Half of all crashes occur at intersections. Traffic lights attempt to meter traffic to help prevent the types of higher speed crashes that occur at rural intersections, but there are still…
Whenever you perform a manoeuvre such as turning right or left at an intersection, doing a u-turn, changing lanes, overtaking another vehicle or opening your vehicle’s door when there’s traffic passing, you make a gap selection (also called ’emerging’ if you…
