Six semi's in crash on Hume Highway

[red750]

At about 3 am on the Hume Highway between Yass and Goulburn, a semi-trailer was pulling into a rest area when it was struck from behind by another semi. This pushed the first one into four others already in the rest area with drivers asleep. The trucks caught fire and were totally destroyed. All drivers walked away with only minor injuries.

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-30/hume-highway-truck-crash-multiple-vehicles-drivers-injured/106859504

 

 

 

[onetrack]

WTF is going on with the trucking scene? This is like a 3rd world country scenario. Yet, the authorities keep imposing more restrictions, more fines, more petty regulations - and this still happens.

 

It must be time to start a root-and-branch teardown on the current system and start looking at driving training and skills levels. If you run up the back of another slowing semi with your truck, you should never have gained a truck licence in the first place.

 

Too many cowboys driving trucks like they're race cars. I get too many truck drivers travelling too close behind me now. In the road train country, they are obliged to keep 200M between road trains, I often see two road trains much closer together than 200M.

[facthunter]

Many of them drive too fast to be able to stop quickly if something gets out of shape.. My last trip over the Nullarbour (sp) they Bar one, Behaved quite well That's a fairly civilised road. Nev