1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:03,920 Speaker 1: Truck safety on the Southeastern Freeway. You've heard my little 2 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:06,880 Speaker 1: report from the scene Mount Osmond Road. You'll be able 3 00:00:06,920 --> 00:00:09,440 Speaker 1: to see the video of it on Facebook very very 4 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:12,160 Speaker 1: shortly on our Facebook page on five Double A. But 5 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:16,040 Speaker 1: it stems from Pete's call after the last truck accident 6 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:18,560 Speaker 1: a month or so ago where a truck lost control 7 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:21,680 Speaker 1: of its breaks overnight. Fortunately no one in the intersection 8 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:24,479 Speaker 1: early in the morning when it came down and slammed 9 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:27,360 Speaker 1: into the fountain. Just the latest in a string of 10 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 1: trucks to come through that intersection. Some have hit the fountain, 11 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:33,720 Speaker 1: some have tipped over on crossroad, some have tragically killed people, 12 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:37,600 Speaker 1: some have continued down Glen Osmond Road and managed to 13 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 1: pull up down the road. It's just unreal that no 14 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 1: one in those incidents was hurt. But something needs to 15 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:46,919 Speaker 1: be done now. Putting the lights back all very well 16 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 1: and good, but it doesn't stop the trucks. It doesn't 17 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 1: solve the problem, and we need something to do that, 18 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:54,800 Speaker 1: and potentially as expensive as this is, it might Charles 19 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:59,400 Speaker 1: Mountain RAA, senior manager Safety and Infrastructure at the RAA 20 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:02,960 Speaker 1: of course on the line, Charles, good morning morning, what 21 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:05,720 Speaker 1: do you think of this? Option to make that a 22 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:08,000 Speaker 1: tighter bend around that second arrest of bed, put a 23 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,959 Speaker 1: gravel pit next to it. Trucks will have to slow down. 24 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 1: Those that can't have no option other than to use 25 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:15,840 Speaker 1: the arrest a bed or tip into the gravel pit 26 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:17,679 Speaker 1: next to it, and that's the third arrest of bed 27 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:18,160 Speaker 1: right there. 28 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:22,119 Speaker 2: Well, it sort of is. And this this idea has 29 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:25,640 Speaker 2: been looked at, but there are understandably some challenges with it. 30 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:29,120 Speaker 2: Given the people who are familiar with the environment will 31 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 2: perhaps appreciate this because if you think the existing second 32 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:36,360 Speaker 2: safety ramp goes straight up a hill readily, yes, what 33 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:40,120 Speaker 2: we're talking about here is in actual fact creating a 34 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:42,760 Speaker 2: two lane road if you like, that would go up 35 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 2: and then come back down to merge into the freeway. 36 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:49,560 Speaker 2: So as you say, it sort of recalls the old 37 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 2: situation we used to have on the old alignment from 38 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:54,560 Speaker 2: our Barker Road, where a lot of trucks used to 39 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 2: turn literally tip over at the bottom end of the 40 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:01,320 Speaker 2: stent down past an eagle on the hill. And that 41 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 2: was I was suppose you could say that the rudimentary 42 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 2: safety functional. Obviously that caused a lot of challenges with 43 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 2: traffic movement. As well. This one that has a similar 44 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:11,320 Speaker 2: thought of approach in that you would go up the 45 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 2: hill up this deviation road, that the ascent would help 46 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 2: you lose some speed. You'll then have to negotiate again. 47 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:22,800 Speaker 2: All being well, you'd get the vehicle back under control. 48 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:26,560 Speaker 2: You then have another descent to undertake, and then you'd 49 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:30,400 Speaker 2: have to merge back onto the freeway, which given the location, 50 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 2: presents some challenges because if your intention is then to 51 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:36,840 Speaker 2: turn right on Port Rush Road, you've then got to 52 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:40,200 Speaker 2: negotiate your way across all beit at a lower speed 53 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:43,520 Speaker 2: as well. So that potentially does create some challenges and 54 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 2: healing issues on the freeway. Bearing in mind is about 55 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 2: five thousand trucks I understand come down the freeway each day, 56 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 2: so we're talking significant numbers and this does have a 57 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:56,679 Speaker 2: big impact on how the flow of the freeway works generally. 58 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:01,160 Speaker 2: So the challenge with this one is the where it 59 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:04,040 Speaker 2: is as well. So like the construction effectively means you're 60 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:06,600 Speaker 2: building into the side of a hill, so it's it's 61 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 2: quite challenging to undertake this work. The trucks, as you say, 62 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:13,840 Speaker 2: if they can't negotiate the bend, will have a tendency 63 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:17,120 Speaker 2: to either go into a safety bed or in worst case, 64 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:20,639 Speaker 2: will tip over, which obviously means the recovery is much 65 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 2: more challenging than simply just pulling them out of a 66 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:23,920 Speaker 2: gravel bed. 67 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt, but still a better solution than having 68 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:30,080 Speaker 1: them come down through that intersection. 69 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:33,360 Speaker 2: Well, absolutely, I mean, and we've made no secret of 70 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:36,760 Speaker 2: the fact we continue to we ideally want to see 71 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 2: some form of additional safety ramp between this one and 72 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 2: the intersection. For that very reason is because while relocation 73 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:47,240 Speaker 2: at the stop bar at the intersection with cross road 74 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:52,480 Speaker 2: potentially moves other innocent pedestrians and vehicles out of the 75 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 2: potential danger zone, You're quite right, it doesn't actually stop 76 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:58,920 Speaker 2: the trucks losing control and coming down there, And we 77 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 2: don't really want to see the zound us as the 78 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 2: final stopping point for these vehicles in these situations. The 79 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 2: other thing that has been looked at and is still 80 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 2: probably worthy of consideration is the creation of a compulsory 81 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 2: lower speed zone or stopping zone between Mount Osmond and 82 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 2: where the current second safety ramp is. And this would 83 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 2: take the form of potentially an additional language trucks either 84 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:25,599 Speaker 2: have to slow right down or come to a stop 85 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:27,600 Speaker 2: and if they couldn't do so, when the reallyth they 86 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:31,120 Speaker 2: could drive into the second safety ramp. But again there 87 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:36,080 Speaker 2: are some challenges with these options because it only really 88 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 2: works if they can be guaranteed unstructed access to the 89 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:43,680 Speaker 2: safety reanp as well, So if you think you've got 90 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:47,039 Speaker 2: a lot of traffic build up, that might inhibit access 91 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 2: and then unfortunately the very vehicles that may need to 92 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:51,920 Speaker 2: use it may not be able to access it. So 93 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:56,720 Speaker 2: there are some consequences of all of these additional treatments, 94 00:04:57,240 --> 00:04:59,919 Speaker 2: both in terms for other motors and also the truck 95 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:01,720 Speaker 2: is coming down the freeway as well. 96 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:07,359 Speaker 1: Indeed, the putting if you talk about a third arrest, 97 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 1: a bet, have you identified where you'd like that, because 98 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 1: again the terrain is challenging all the way past that 99 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:13,920 Speaker 1: second one, isn't it. 100 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:17,800 Speaker 2: Well, that's exactly right, and that's why we haven't seen 101 00:05:17,839 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 2: one done, and yet I'm sure is because it is difficult. 102 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:26,440 Speaker 2: It's constrained, is constrained so by the actual location, by 103 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:29,719 Speaker 2: the physical space. They've got to make this thing work effectively, 104 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:35,159 Speaker 2: and also ensuring of course that other queue traffic doesn't 105 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:38,279 Speaker 2: obstruct access to it. So it has to be able 106 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:41,840 Speaker 2: to be used. So having said all that, there are 107 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:47,240 Speaker 2: systems that are available that can work effectively in constrained environments. 108 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:50,599 Speaker 2: So we think it continues to be an option that 109 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 2: should be further looked at, and ultimately I think we'll 110 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 2: have to see this some kind of treatment installed this location. 111 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 2: So the third rest of it, we believe is very important. Obviously, 112 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 2: the works for undertaking a crossroad intersection also very critical 113 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:09,480 Speaker 2: and important, and I'm sure as part of the other 114 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:13,880 Speaker 2: work or works that they were out last week the 115 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 2: federal funding, there will be some options to use some 116 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 2: smart technology to help better identify vehicles that might be 117 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:23,599 Speaker 2: in trouble earlier and take some other immediate actions as well. 118 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 2: So all part and past the works that will need 119 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:28,839 Speaker 2: to be continually done to ensure there's free the descent 120 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 2: for the freeway continues can be as safe as possible 121 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:32,960 Speaker 2: for all road users. 122 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:36,000 Speaker 1: All right, Charles, I don't know, maybe selective memory, but 123 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:38,760 Speaker 1: with the old road and the Devil's elbow and the 124 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:41,800 Speaker 1: twists and turns coming down, I don't ever recall a 125 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:45,440 Speaker 1: truck having come through that intersection without breaks. I don't 126 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 1: know if you do, but I certainly don't. It seems 127 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:50,120 Speaker 1: to me only a problem since the new road open, 128 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 1: and that's been twenty five years almost now. 129 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:55,120 Speaker 2: Well, and that's exactly right. The new road, for all 130 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:58,680 Speaker 2: the benefit, has one fundamental dis benefit in a very 131 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:03,800 Speaker 2: long but well it's a long sustained climb up so 132 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:06,680 Speaker 2: it's quick, but it's also a long sustained descent as well, 133 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:08,920 Speaker 2: so that's the downside of it. Whereas the old road 134 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:12,320 Speaker 2: of course had so many opportunities for vehicles, and of 135 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:14,800 Speaker 2: course we've seen a big increase in the volume of 136 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:16,640 Speaker 2: truck traffic using the road as well, so there's a 137 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 2: number of factors have come into play with this as well. 138 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:24,400 Speaker 2: We're going forward even with a substantial upgrade to the 139 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 2: freight bypass around the back of Barry Bridge, which hopefully 140 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:30,080 Speaker 2: will take a lot of the very big vehicles. The 141 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:33,680 Speaker 2: Hills region itself generates the need for truck traffic either 142 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:36,200 Speaker 2: to service it or come from it, so we're still 143 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:40,000 Speaker 2: going to see relatively high proportioned vehicles using Southeastern Freeway. 144 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:42,480 Speaker 2: So we need to continue to look at all options 145 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:45,680 Speaker 2: to make this final stretch of the road as safe 146 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:46,320 Speaker 2: as possible. 147 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:48,680 Speaker 1: All right, Charles, really appreciate your time and your insights. 148 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:52,520 Speaker 1: Thank you. Thanks Matthan Charles Mountain, raa senior manager Safety 149 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 1: and Infrastructure. Let's go to your calls, John, let go 150 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 1: few heights side John. 151 00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:00,440 Speaker 3: Good morning, Matthew. Just a quick one. I'm not an 152 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 3: expert with the heavy vehicles, etc. But just after the tunnels, 153 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:09,200 Speaker 3: on the downtrack, there's quite a large parking area. Yes, 154 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:12,119 Speaker 3: and there should be a compulsory stop for any heavy 155 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 3: vehicles in there, because there's a lot of difference between 156 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:18,640 Speaker 3: slowing down and stopping in a heavy vehicle or when 157 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:19,520 Speaker 3: your brakes are hot. 158 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:23,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now they're doing something in there. I 159 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:26,880 Speaker 1: don't know if they're building something, maybe a survey's going in. 160 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:29,520 Speaker 1: But gee, there's been a lot of over the last 161 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:32,800 Speaker 1: few weeks and probably a month or two, there's been 162 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:35,880 Speaker 1: a lot of activity in that little bay just out 163 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:37,439 Speaker 1: of the tunnel. So I don't know what's happening there, 164 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:39,720 Speaker 1: but maybe someone can enlighten me and let us know. 165 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:44,480 Speaker 1: But I like the thinking John, that's certainly true. I 166 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:46,920 Speaker 1: mean if they had a compulsory stop, well that solves 167 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:49,680 Speaker 1: the problem, doesn't it. And Childs alluded to that as well. 168 00:08:49,679 --> 00:08:51,719 Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you for the call. David Blake for 169 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:52,440 Speaker 1: you hi, Dave. 170 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:54,199 Speaker 2: Good Maddie. 171 00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:57,719 Speaker 4: They're putting in tanks there so they can have automatic 172 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:02,160 Speaker 4: washes on the lights in the tunnel. I heard that 173 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:07,120 Speaker 4: a little waller gown. I thought, well, yeah, anyway, so 174 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 4: that'stop sends from doing maintenance overnight on the tunnel. But 175 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:14,360 Speaker 4: all we got to do is for Kuston Toonis to 176 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:17,320 Speaker 4: do the same set up that he did to knock 177 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:21,480 Speaker 4: out the dog legs in his own electorate the other 178 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:24,960 Speaker 4: week is to have an off rim are at murray Bridge, 179 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:27,640 Speaker 4: come across, you knock out the dog leg as the 180 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:32,640 Speaker 4: Madame Road, the dog legates Cooks's Hill walk as flat road, 181 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:36,880 Speaker 4: comes straight across to the bottom of Accommodation Hill and 182 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 4: duplicate the overpath that we've got up here at Fort Wakefield, 183 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:45,080 Speaker 4: and then you'll whack another overtaking lane coming up down 184 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:47,680 Speaker 4: down Accommodation Hill and you chop it. 185 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:50,000 Speaker 1: Up through right, all right, simple as that. 186 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:53,280 Speaker 4: As simple as that might, and the way they're chucking 187 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:58,360 Speaker 4: money around, it's nothing. We've got plenty of time to 188 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:01,560 Speaker 4: do it. And Charles Mount said, what this five thousand 189 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:04,840 Speaker 4: trucks a day coming down from the free line. Yep, right, 190 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:07,760 Speaker 4: if you take eighteen hundred of those off. By doing 191 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:11,880 Speaker 4: that and the bulk of the percentage you work at 192 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:14,880 Speaker 4: the percentage of the freight that comes out to the 193 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:19,199 Speaker 4: northern side it down Fort Adelaide, you'd probably feet the 194 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:22,120 Speaker 4: frize and people if you advertise it and you build it, 195 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:24,400 Speaker 4: they'll use it. That's the old thing. 196 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:27,080 Speaker 1: Yea, it is, build it and they will come. 197 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:30,040 Speaker 4: Yeah, just a dumb sixty four year old pension. I 198 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:31,439 Speaker 4: might good on you. 199 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 1: Dave wouldn't say that, not that adjective. You might be 200 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:37,360 Speaker 1: a sixty four pension. I'm sure you're not done. Good 201 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:39,839 Speaker 1: on your mate. Thank you for the call. Matthew at Morphortville. 202 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:44,240 Speaker 5: High Good morning, Matt. I might share and quite simply 203 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 5: were currently when they come down the hill. They got 204 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:50,040 Speaker 5: a speed limit of sixty kilometers per hour. Why not 205 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:54,440 Speaker 5: reduce it to forty? Okay, let's face it. The faster 206 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:57,199 Speaker 5: you go to more often you likely to use the 207 00:10:57,280 --> 00:11:02,480 Speaker 5: brakes to slow down. And at case it say, you're 208 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:06,280 Speaker 5: not going to need as much activity on the brakes. 209 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:09,200 Speaker 5: There's another thing that the railways use. 210 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:13,240 Speaker 1: I've got to say, I've got the feeling for big trucks. 211 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:16,720 Speaker 1: It is forty already somebody might want to let me know, 212 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:19,760 Speaker 1: but I reckon, that's the thing already, and it says 213 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:22,920 Speaker 1: sixty unless you know, unless you're forty sort of thing. 214 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:23,760 Speaker 1: I reckon, it's the sign. 215 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:28,840 Speaker 5: Whichever way it is, that the face of this simple 216 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:32,120 Speaker 5: gravity type thing. If it's going slow, it right. There's 217 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:37,480 Speaker 5: much But in the railway industry they've got on the 218 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:40,680 Speaker 5: longest as trainer. I've got heat detectors for the axle 219 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:46,960 Speaker 5: box on the train at infrared and as the train 220 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:51,880 Speaker 5: goes past, it takes the temperature of that hot box 221 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:56,680 Speaker 5: if it seeds. And it might sound done, but it works. 222 00:11:56,679 --> 00:12:00,240 Speaker 5: It's the computer type set up. If the temperare of 223 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:05,240 Speaker 5: that hot box is too much, your train are advised 224 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:08,800 Speaker 5: because message comes back to train control and Adelaide and 225 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:13,160 Speaker 5: they're advised to slow down and check that particular hot box. Now, 226 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 5: Charles Mantage is something about ony cause, something about having 227 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:23,160 Speaker 5: a checking location. They could put in a loop where 228 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:25,280 Speaker 5: the truck goes through. It doesn't have to go through 229 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:29,280 Speaker 5: at sixty kilometers an hour, whatever it might be, but 230 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:32,839 Speaker 5: they can check the temperature of the brakes as it's 231 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:34,800 Speaker 5: on the move that it goes through a little slipway 232 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:39,600 Speaker 5: and it suddenly if your break temperature exceeds whatever limit 233 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:43,800 Speaker 5: they determine, it's got to stop and do something about it, 234 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:46,360 Speaker 5: even if it's just let it cool down. 235 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, So they're going to put in smart technology, which 236 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:52,240 Speaker 1: I'm not sure what that involves. Whether it's cameras to 237 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:55,760 Speaker 1: check for smoke coming from breaks or a truck that's 238 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:59,920 Speaker 1: going too fast, But either way, I mean, we'll wait 239 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:02,600 Speaker 1: and see, I suppose, and see how it works. But yeah, 240 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 1: there are moves of foot in that regard, but some 241 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:07,200 Speaker 1: sort of technology that will help. Good on your Matthew, 242 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:09,080 Speaker 1: Thank you, Luke and craigmore cal I, Luke. 243 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:14,440 Speaker 6: Okay, matte Hey, just on a truck garden professional, being 244 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:17,839 Speaker 6: doing it for twenty over twenty years. In all due 245 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:20,880 Speaker 6: respect to most of your callers, We've got no idea 246 00:13:21,559 --> 00:13:25,760 Speaker 6: none at all. Stopping on the freeway. Someone mentioned about 247 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:28,160 Speaker 6: stopping on the freeway. You're going to have a build 248 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:32,760 Speaker 6: up of trucks all trying to find a park of 249 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:37,080 Speaker 6: the amount of traffic going down that road is quite heavy. 250 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:40,120 Speaker 6: Lowering the speed limit to forty k is an hour, 251 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:42,520 Speaker 6: that's just going to cause more issues because you're going 252 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:45,640 Speaker 6: to have some trucks that do ten kilometers now, some 253 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:49,200 Speaker 6: that do twenty, some that do thirty, some that do forty, 254 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:52,000 Speaker 6: some that will do fifty. When I go down the hill, 255 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:56,120 Speaker 6: I'm empty. I do fifty nine kilometers without touching the 256 00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:58,520 Speaker 6: brake every time without a problem. I've been doing it 257 00:13:58,520 --> 00:14:01,959 Speaker 6: for many of you in ge Go Ye. So no 258 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:05,000 Speaker 6: retarded is in the engine break and you've got to 259 00:14:05,040 --> 00:14:09,800 Speaker 6: select your right here going across to Accommodation Hill. That's 260 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:12,040 Speaker 6: going to add two hours to your drive time, so 261 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:14,839 Speaker 6: you won't be able to overnight Melbourne Adelaide very much, 262 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:17,240 Speaker 6: especially on a twelve hour book, which you know a 263 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:20,080 Speaker 6: lot of people don't understand. It is a long drive, 264 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:22,880 Speaker 6: and that is the actual road train train route where 265 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:25,560 Speaker 6: the road trains go from Melbourne to Adelaide. They got 266 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:28,400 Speaker 6: cut across and most of those guys have what they 267 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:31,480 Speaker 6: call a BFM, which is basically seed management management and 268 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:34,840 Speaker 6: that and they also have advanced to seed management, which 269 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:38,240 Speaker 6: is a course that they have to do to acquire 270 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:42,160 Speaker 6: that the credit station to drive X amount of hours. 271 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:47,600 Speaker 6: So the solution to the hill is a ramp, a 272 00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:51,040 Speaker 6: safety ramp at the bottom. But also I think there 273 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:56,280 Speaker 6: should be a checking station on top the NHVR, which 274 00:14:56,320 --> 00:15:00,160 Speaker 6: is the National with Heavy Visory Regulator, they need to 275 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 6: do more inspections on trucks especially they're greats because what 276 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:08,520 Speaker 6: you will find is the newer trucks with the newer 277 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:12,120 Speaker 6: trailers go down there without a probit. It's the old trucks, 278 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:16,720 Speaker 6: which are owned by small businesses that have little profit margins, 279 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:19,600 Speaker 6: that can't afford maintenance. They're the ones that cause issues. 280 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:27,840 Speaker 6: So don't crucify everyone just because a minority do the 281 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:31,760 Speaker 6: wrong thing. Enforcement is the key and maintenance is the key. 282 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:34,480 Speaker 6: And you know, good on people of having ideas and 283 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:36,960 Speaker 6: all that, but unfortunately for them, they've just got no 284 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:39,880 Speaker 6: idea about the reality of the heavy vehicle industry. 285 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:42,040 Speaker 1: Luke, good on you. Thank you for your call and 286 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:43,320 Speaker 1: making your point. Appreciate it.