Australian Firms Aren't All Safe, Australian freight transport

The Australian Trucking Association renewed their desire for Australia’s freight trucking firms to design and implement new strategies and policies to decrease the number of traffic accidents on their roads that lead to death.
Standing before the Informa Road Safety 2009 Conference, Stuart St. Clair used this chance to state that the transport industry in Australia suffers from the fact that there’s a significant difference between what he considers safe transport firms in Australia and ones that implement policies and strategies that aren’t nearly as safe as their safer counterparts. That Australia’s safest firms routinely use strategies and policies that train, support and monitor their drivers to ensure they’re fit and are following the rules and regulations. At the same time other firms are doing business without the same standards and that this needs to be addressed if the transport roads are to be made safer for all users.
That some firms are investing money in the latest technologies, vehicles, and scheduling technologies to increase safety for their drivers, while other firms have decided that they don’t have to move forward into the new freight industry and put in place the same equipment.
He stated that the ground needs to be levelled for all transport firms and that smaller firms need to take seriously the need to make the roads safer for their drivers and all users. That all firms, not just the big ones, should be using the latest systems and policies and that they really have no reason that they aren’t already implementing these systems in their work.