Unavin

05/11/2024

🚨 A Reality Check for the Heavy Vehicle Industry 🚨

Heads up, folks! Here’s where industry is missing the mark big-time:

1. If people at the top don’t understand what heavy vehicle operator risks are, how can they expect drivers to know? When we don’t know the “why” behind safety protocols, they end up ignored, poorly enforced, or totally misunderstood.

2. Training isn’t just a quick Slide Deck presentation. It’s continuous, hands-on, and tailored to real-world situations. How many drivers out there are told to just “figure it out” with new equipment, procedures and routes?

3. Here’s the harsh truth: experience alone doesn’t equal competency. Many experienced drivers haven’t had proper training on newer tech, regulations, or modern safety practices. Relying on “we’ve always done it this way” is a recipe for disaster.

4. We’ve got a major culture problem where issues are swept under the rug because “nobody wants to be the bad guy.” Ignoring problems doesn’t make them go away—it makes them pile up. If drivers are discouraged from speaking up or reporting incidents, that’s a system begging for failure.

It’s time for a wake-up call. Address the gaps in understanding, training, and competency.

15/09/2024

07/01/2023

How well do your compliance administrators / allocators / drivers understand the various government codes associated with vehicle registrations for example, config code, axle code, nominated configuration code?

How can someone ever remember what these codes actually mean?

Ask Unavin

07/01/2023

At Unavin we take the time to ensure that our customers (transport operators and their customers) understand how the Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL) has changed from “Chain of Responsibility” to being a party in the chain of responsibility who has a “primary duty” to ensure the safety of their transport activities.

We do this because we are dedicated to reducing risk for transport operators and their supply chain partners, the Unavin platform is able to assist transport operators manage vehicle speed and driver behaviour as well as easily share this information along the supply chain reducing the need for the supply chain partners to “overreach” into the the transport operations.

At times the “paradigm shift” can be challenging for some people as the old “CoR” law was around for a long time and not everyone in the transport industry fully understands the changes much less those outside of the transport industry.

Get in touch!
Get in touch with us to see how we can reduce risk in your business and how we can help you to get the most out of your GPS tracking systems.

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07/01/2023

Court Case highlights changes to CoR (Speed Management)

When helping people to understand the law we find it useful to use case studies that can highlight the changes in the law, such as, the recent NSW Supreme Court case where parties in the chain of responsibility were fined $210,000 combined for not meeting their primary duty obligation is one such case study that we will be using in the future as it clearly shows the differences.

We will focus on the speed component of this case below, other components of the case will be discussed in subsequent posts.

Read more: bit.ly/CORSpeeding

07/01/2023

Getting your heavy vehicle registrations right - Compliance built in

On 13 December 2022 a transport operator was fined $5,000 in NSW for using a vehicle on a road in a configuration that was different to how it was registered.

In a recent court case published in the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator’s (NHVR) website we see that a business was fined for being over mass ($15,000) and for “one count of using a heavy vehicle, not in a registered configuration” ($5,000) this charge was not under the Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL) but actually under the NSW Road Transport Act.*

Read more: bit.ly/vehiclerego