Contents

Summary

• Truck speed limits
• Workplace safety
• Other issues
• Our recommendations

Part 1 – Background

• Introduction
• How we carried out our audit
• What the Committee found in 1996

Part 2 – Response to the Committee’s 7 key recommendations

• Recommendation 1: Enforcement of speed limits
• Our findings
• Recommendation 2: Removal of trucks from the road
• Our findings
• Recommendation 3: Weigh station operating times
• Our findings
• Recommendations 4 and 5: Operation of the Commercial Vehicle Investigation Unit
• Our findings
• Recommendation 6: Ministry of Transport action plan
• Our findings and recommendations
• Recommendation 7: Applying the Health and Safety in Employment Act
• Our findings

Part 3 – Other truck safety initiatives

• Reducing truck rollover crashes
• Responsible operator programme
• Improving truck braking
• Our findings
• Fatigue management

Part 4 – Trends in fatal truck crashes

• Our findings

Appendix – Types of heavy motor vehicles

Figures

1. The 1996 Transport Committee’s 7 key recommendations
2. Truck speeds reported by the Transport Committee in 1996
3. Speeding offence notices issued for heavy motor vehicles 1994-95
4. Mean open road speeds of each truck type 1995-2004
5. Mean speeds of all trucks 1995-2004
6. Heavy motor vehicles exceeding the speed limit by 10km/h or more 1995-2004
7. Non-speed-camera offences 1997-2003
8. Speed-camera offences 2001-02
9. Commercial vehicles ordered off the road since 1998-99
10. Ratio of detected truck offences to number of trucks checked
11. Fatal truck crashes per 100 million kilometres travelled
12. Fatal motor vehicle crashes since 1985