The other week someone crashed into the rear of another, sending them into 4 more parked trucks, and they all went up in flames. Nobody was hurt, but the culprit was charged.

This time, nobody will be charged, as the one who caused it died.

It would have been a hard hit because the trailers on both trucks are all squished together. It is a good stretch of road with plenty of visibility so it makes me wonder why two similar accidents in the same general area and close to the same time of the morning are occurring.

I think it's probably the best time to nod off, if they've been driving all night without a break.

QUOTE: According to the latest NTI report focusing on truck-related accidents and fatigue, remote areas make up 34% of crashes, and 38.3% occur between midnight and 6am. "The likelihood that a truck on the road between midnight and 6am is involved in a fatigue crash is around three times higher (306%) than the daily average."

Sometimes, America can teach us a lesson. Their way of financing roads is very different & so are the roads. Whist we may be catching on the very rail system we need, is run into the dirt or pulled up.

Long haul for Pantech's (trailers), often sees miles of them on trains, not chopping up roads with the weight. That also goes with weight limits allowed to go long haul and the length of the train itself and its speed. Interested, check some of the "railfanning" videos.

Another truck fire

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-08/truck-destroyed-hume-highway-fire-yass/107127352

Brad your video is marked private and cannot be viewed.

Albo's not picking up the message on rail - he's cancelled key sections of the now well overbudget Inland Rail job, meaning that the sections now complete are useless for the intended purpose. No-one is going to juggle freight between trucks and trains over a 2,000km route and I mean no-one. The Hume Highway (31) and Newell Highway (39) will continue to be the major freight corridors for the remainder of our times I reckon.

Robert, yes it does look like whoever uploaded that video has changed its access level. I'll try and link to another source when time is available.

Another idiot truck driver:

https://www.nine.com.au/australia-news/nsw/rouse-hill-sydney-truck-driver-charged-after-almost-hitting-two-school-girls-20260912-p60wre.html

The main reason we have Victorian Railways, its still the era that they're living in. I would not be surprised if some there still think we take stuff to the Port of Echuca & such & ship it to Adelaide.

Love one of their new trains on the NE line. "Made in Victoria" if you travelled on it, you would fully understand why they are buying Spanish ones.

If they were remotely interested in making rail efficient, they should play join the tracks in NSW & Vic that run along the Murray River. In many cases the track bed is already there. They built a bridge over the Murray at Corowa & were too stupid, or other agenda, to incorporate a rial line & join what was their to the one on the other side of a different gauge that could have been changed & eventually was.

It seems to deliberately not compute, that a train Melbourne to Mildura. Instead of being stuck there, could go onwards to Albury along the Murray, or peal off & go to Shepparton. However, we elect fools, voted in by take takes.