Towing is last resort

EDITOR JAMES GRAHAM

LIKE many of you, I was pleased to see bp Truganina take some overdue action and start towing the trucks overstaying their welcome in the parking bays, as we highlighted in the August 4 issue of Big Rigs.

They’re there for everyone to use as a tool to help with fatigue management, not for the sole benefit of local drivers in need of a makeshift metro depot.

It’s not an issue confined to Truganina, of course, as many of you rightly pointed on our Facebook page.

At deadline for this issue, Ampol got in touch alerting us to the fact it was aiming to roll out the same idea, kicking off with its Derrimut site. Watch this space.

Still, as truckie Trevor Warner points out in our follow-up story on page 3, local, state and federal governments also need to step in to play their part. The industry is great at fixing its own problems, but this issue won’t be resolved without their help too.