The Transport Workers Union (TWU) has for some time now been up in arms at supermarket giant Coles over truck drivers being forced to work long and unsafe hours. It seems Coles is behaving as corporate bullies, giving completely unreasonable deadlines to meet (along with screwing their suppliers into the ground). Notably, there are 300 people killed each year from truck related crashes.
We've had a couple of spectacular crashes in Sydney recently, that one on the North Shore that blew up in flames after a crash where it's brakes failed blocking of an entire main road, and that spectacularly stupid one where the driver somehow accidentally started the tray raising, the tray crashing into the M5 tunnel roof and ripping out everything. The result being the M5 tunnel being closed for ages throwing untold traffic chaos across eastern Sydney. People were stuck in trafic for hours, missing flights and all. The drivers explanation was that he tripped the tray raising thingo whilst leaning over to pick up glasses :s
Being as driver pressure is the issue in crashes, I think what the TWU is saying is relevant to the whole industry. This is from WA where they've singled out Coles as the worst offender:
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