Heavy vehicles crisis and the tech fixing it


AS drivers, we have all been there: cruising down the PLUS Expressway or a federal road and finding ourselves boxed in by towering 40-tonne trailers and cement trucks.

For many drivers, it is an anxiety-inducing experience, and the recent tragedy on the East Coast Expressway (LPT 1) has once again shown exactly why those fears are justified.

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