Risky driving around logging trucks
Dashcam video footage of a close call. Image: Supplied.
Almost every week, dash cams in Stuart Drummond Transport logging trucks capture incidents, but two overtaking motorbikes narrowly avoiding a collision with an oncoming logging truck took it to another level.
Dramatic video footage posted on Facebook that showed the close call for the two motorbike riders who squeezed back into their lane just before two logging trucks passed each other in opposite directions. One of the trucks was heading to a logging operation near Picton when the two motorbikes overtook it, just in front of another of the company’s logging trucks with a full load.
Managing director Brodie Drummond says dash cams regularly show incidents with varying degrees of severity and the Commercial Vehicle Safety Team (NZ Police CVST) is very proactive about following up on videos the company forwards to it. A couple of incidents have recently been taken to court and the other drivers charged.
He says logging trucks get a bad rap when things go wrong and if the motorcyclists in the recent episode had ended up in an accident, many people would have blamed the logging trucks. His message to drivers this summer is to think about everyone else because if there is an accident, there are repercussions for everyone involved.