The National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) has shared details of a recent intercept, where a tipper was caught out for being overloaded.
NHVR officers found the truck to be carrying 28.5 tonne on the drive axle group – which is 7.15 tonne over the 21 tonne limit.
An NHVR spokesperson told Big Rigs, “The operator was issued with mass offences under the Heavy Vehicle National Law. The Chain of Responsibility, as part of the HVNL, makes parties other than drivers responsible for the safety of heavy vehicles on the road.
“Everyone who works with heavy vehicles, from the business that employs a driver or owns a vehicle, to the business that sends or receives goods, is accountable for the safety of the heavy vehicle, its driver, and its load throughout the journey.”
NHVR said that overloading vehicles puts infrastructure and road users at serious risk, adding that load limits aren’t just guidelines.
More information on mass and dimension limits can be found here.
Not much is ever said about the risk to individuals posed by the nhvr themselves.
Over regulation in the name of safety is going crazy in this country.
The Australian public is completely uninformed and indifferent about the fact that we vote for those that control us by compliance by penalisation. It’s not a good thing.
Please tell me the loader, consigned and consigned are being investigated… 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
They don’t care as the company will just pay the fine as I know first hand that if a b-double goes where it’s not ment to go to get a load I know the company will pay the $660 fine for the driver. Transport department need to sit at traffic light as I see trucks going though red lights all the time with out any care in the world.