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  AN aircraft has crashed into a building at DFO near Essendon Airport causing a major explosion. AVOID THE AREA IF POSSIBLE. VicRoads has advised that the Tullamarine Freeway is closed in both directions between English Street and Bell Street. The Calder Freeway is closed in both directions between McNamara Avenue...

Technology may soon become a back-door measure to stop dodgy employers from cutting corners and forcing truck drivers to work dangerously-long hours while fatigued. Melbourne sleep researchers are developing a roadside test for fatigue that police could use along with the alcohol breath-test and the saliva swab for drugs. Victoria Police and the Transport...

It’s a mistake to allow politics to compromise road safety, particularly when our road toll is rising after years of decline, writes Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Tourism and Cities Anthony Albanese. Trucks account for only 2 percent of registered vehicles in Australia, yet they are involved in 16 percent...

Frank Black, a longstanding TWU member, has been driving big rigs for 30 years now – for 10 of those, he’s been the voice of owner drivers on the Australian Trucking Association (ATA) Board. If you’re an owner-driver you can help Frank continue to stand up for your rights and...

The TWU places such high priority on workplace safety because, in the transportation sector more than any other across the Australian community, it means the difference between life and death. Tragically, Safe Work Australia statistics for 2016 show, out of a total of 176 work-related deaths Australia-wide last year, 63...

The TWU (Vic/Tas Branch) has called for greater rights and protections for owner drivers and supply chain accountability in its submission to a wide-ranging State Government review of laws regulating owner drivers and forestry contractors. The submission to the Review of the Owner Driver and Forestry Contractors Act 2005 and Owner...

A truck cabin is among the deadliest workplaces in Australia, new research shows. The Macquarie University study, which surveyed 559 truck drivers, found a high proportion are forced to work long and dangerous hours carrying unsafe loads to avoid losing their jobs. The report, to be released today at a TWU road safety summit,...

The TWU has joined an RTBU-led campaign to put trams and trains back in the Victorian public’s hands and stop billions of dollars of revenue going to foreign companies.   The issue has united the broader labour movement who were out in force at the public campaign launch at Trades...

TWU National Secretary spoke this morning to the Today Show about raids currently being conducted on a Sydney transport business and the crises in the transport industry. Watch the video now on the TWU (Vic/Tas Branch) Facebook page. In the video, Mr Sheldon also discussed why the transport industry has...