Driving smoothly is one of the easiest skills to learn and do, but many of us fall into bad habits, or perhaps aren’t taught. If you can drive smoothly you will use less fuel, not wear your brakes out as…
Driving smoothly is one of the easiest skills to learn and do, but many of us fall into bad habits, or perhaps aren’t taught. If you can drive smoothly you will use less fuel, not wear your brakes out as…
NSW Minister for Roads and Ports, Duncan Gay, says that there are “delays in the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator’s system that are hurting the road freight industry.” Minister Gay has just acquired co-delegation powers to enabled the NSW’s road managers…
Brake fade Brakes are one of a number of mechanisms and forces in a car that slow it down. The others include air resistance, rolling resistance, engine compression and gravity (if travelling uphill). Relying solely on the brakes for long…
Often a poor memory is the result of a number of influences: we convince ourselves our memory is bad, we’ve been told our memory is bad, we haven’t practiced using our memory, or we haven’t learned how to remember. Don’t…
A vehicle platoon is a group of vehicles that travels in close proximity to one another, nose-to-tail, at highway speeds. A lead vehicle is followed by a number of other vehicles that closely match their speed and manoeuvres to the…
Australia has hundreds of thousands of kilometres of roads that are nowhere near settlements. Unlike in, for example, the UK, where almost all the roads will have some kind of asphalt, here it can be anything from cloying mud through…
