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    Flogging a dead horse

    Apr 16, 2020 5 minutes

    I HAD A GOOD read about the findings of the Monash University’s Accident Research Centre (MUARC) on the Owner//Driver website (www.ownerdriver.com.au). Even though it’s clear the good people of MUARC are full of good intentions, it would also be obvious to a reasonable person that the findings are more about proving what we truck drivers already know and appears to ignore the causation and the solutions.

    It reads like it’s all about finding new ways of flogging a dead horse and not about addressing the elephant in the room.

    Number one: having the expectation that a truck driver should be able to continually complete a 14-hour shift that at best covers somewhere around the vicinity of being awake for at least 16 or 17 hours overall over a seven day/night cycle, is the area

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