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Driving under pressure

HAT WILL it take for our federal government and its agencies to do something about reforming our industry? In September, Safe Work Australia reported a jump in driver deaths for 2019 – up to 55 from 38 in 2018. We would expect the numbers of driver deaths to fall this year given the volume of road users would be significantly down due to state border closures and lockdowns, but these deaths remain simply too high.

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