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5 years 8 months ago #194889 by Roderick Smith
180720F Melbourne Herald Sun - Pilbara iron ore.

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5 years 8 months ago #195474 by Roderick Smith
180815W Metro Twitter - Scania fire appliance, illustrating a reminder re the new law, 40 km/h when passing any emergency vehicle with its lights flashing.

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5 years 8 months ago #195483 by Roderick Smith
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Worker dies at Rio Tinto mine site after haul truck veers off road 16 August 2018.
A 28-year-old worker has died at Rio Tinto's Channar mine near Paraburdoo overnight after the haul truck he was driving veered off the road.
The Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety is investigating the incident, which happened about 11pm on Wednesday night, Mines Safety Director Andrew Chaplyn confirmed.
"The worker was fatally injured when the haul truck he was driving veered off the haul road," he said.
"The incident occurred about 11pm last night and operations at the mine site have ceased. The department sends its sincere condolences to the worker’s family, friends and co-workers."
A Rio Tinto spokesman said the incident was being investigated with the company's full support.
"Our deepest sympathies are with the person's family and friends at their loss," the spokesman said.
Police attended the site and will prepare a report for the coroner.
The death is the second at the Channar mine in recent years, after 32-year-old diesel fitter Lee Buzzard died at the site in 2016 while performing maintenance on a drill head.
< www.watoday.com.au/national/western-aust...20180816-p4zxto.html >

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5 years 7 months ago #195919 by Roderick Smith
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180907F Melbourne Herald Sun - Launceston tip.

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5 years 6 months ago #196104 by Roderick Smith
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BHP Billiton changes.

The photo was illustrating an article on corporate restructuring.
180919W Melbourne 'Herald Sun' - BHP Billiton.

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5 years 6 months ago - 5 years 6 months ago #196227 by Roderick Smith
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New-age booze buses catching backstreet drivers.
Herald Sun September 22, 2018.
video: Victoria Police conduct a breath testing operation.
Almost every street in Victoria could be a booze bus site as a fleet of smaller vehicles is unleashed to catch drink and drug drivers.
Victoria Police is conducting a statewide audit to decide locations where six new-age buses will be most effectively deployed.
They are designed to catch drink and drug drivers using residential roads and backstreets, especially to avoid police.
A drug driver was caught in the first hour of the vehicle’s inaugural deployment in Mill Park on Friday night.
Inspector Dani Leemon with the new smaller booze buses that will be unleashed to catch drink drivers in smaller side streets across Melbourne. Picture: Tony Gough
Insp Danielle Leemon, from the Victoria Police road policing command, told the Sunday Herald Sun: “It gives us the ability to physically get into areas that we haven’t been able to before.”
“We will be able to get into smaller areas and smaller streets,’’ Insp Leemon said.
“It certainly gives us the capability to expand our sphere of detection.
“It’s very exciting.”
The new buses are about 2m shorter than traditional units but their smaller turning circle and manoeuvrability is the game-changer.
Force command believes deploying them to areas where bigger booze buses have been unable to go will keep drivers guessing as to where and when police could pounce.
Congested inner city areas will be a focus but the smaller buses will also be set up in regional side streets and moved around during operations.
“Historically with the older fleet because of its size we have a lot of sites across the state but sometimes they are repeated,’’ Insp Leemon said.
“With this small bus we’ll be at locations we’ve never been at before and we’ll be able to change that around across the state.
“That will certainly provide an expectation from a community perspective that we could be anywhere at any time.
“People will come off the main thoroughfare to try and cut through to get back home and there will be an alcohol and drug testing site set up.
“Any police vehicle can perform that function but certainly from a large random breath and drug testing site that the booze bus does we have a bigger capability, a bigger net, to catch more impaired drivers.
“The van will pull over one car and be dealing with one car at a time. We will be pulling in multiple cars.”
The buses are among 10 new vehicles purchased in a $15 million road safety boost.
A third of the 166 drivers and riders killed on Victoria’s roads last year had drugs, alcohol or both in their system.
“This new, smaller fleet gives Victoria Police a new tool in its fight against alcohol and drug impaired drivers — helping keep more Victorians safe on our roads,’’ Police Minister Lisa Neville said.
< www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/newa...3f530f7ead53eb78774b >
Also the printed version next day, with a different photo.




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5 years 6 months ago #196637 by Roderick Smith
181014Su Melbourne Herald Sun Campbell's Creek (Vic.) CFA.
Plus a different brigade fighting a bushfire, suspected arson.

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5 years 4 months ago #197581 by Roderick Smith
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181211Tu Melbourne 'Herald Sun' - Grain truck, in an article about Graincorp.

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5 years 3 months ago #197625 by werkhorse
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Late model Mack ;)

You might Laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same
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5 years 3 months ago #197776 by Roderick Smith
181224M 'SMH' - Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport, fire appliance.

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