Scania Australia is partnering with the Australian Road Safety Foundation (ARSF) to help amplify road safety messaging and provide a focus on safer traffic interactions with heavy vehicles.
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As a partner of ARSF, Scania will also sponsor a new annual road safety award with a focus on heavy commercial vehicles.
Scania Australia managing director Manfred Streit says safety is in everything the company does, from designing trucks and buses to the way the team act in their company-owned workshops, there’s always a focus on promoting safe outcomes and avoiding injury.
“We are proud to join with ARSF to help generate greater understanding of how all road users can more safely interact with trucks and buses, as well as how drivers of heavy vehicles can take greater care to avoid vulnerable road users such as pedestrians and cyclists,” he says.
“By sponsoring the heavy vehicle award at the annual event held at Parliament House in Canberra we look forward to recognising programmes designed to elevate road safety in the heavy vehicle industry.”
Scania is the leader in heavy vehicle safety systems in Australia, through making side curtain anti-roll-over airbags standard at every truck door since 2018 and making vulnerable road user and anti-collision radar systems available on trucks and buses.
If a truck rolls over, Scania has designed side airbags in the vehicle to reduce injury, as well introducing other safety systems, starting with an all-steel crash-tested cabin, and backed with Autonomous Emergency Braking, Advanced Cruise Control, Lane Departure Warning, Blind Spot Warning, Collision Warning, and Vulnerable Road User warning.
“Our latest buses and trucks feature dual radars to power these Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), which all work to warn the driver of potential hazards, but with the partnership with ARSF we hope to spread the message of road safety beyond our customers to the wider community, especially with regard to how passenger car drivers should best act around trucks and buses,” Manfred says.
“Trucks and buses are heavy vehicles and require more space, time and braking effort to bring to a standstill, and this is why heavy vehicle drivers leave a good deal of space between themselves and the cars in front of their vehicle.
“This isn’t an invitation for a car driver in a hurry to dive into this space.”
Manfred says Scania hopes to reduce the Australian road death toll, as 1,300 annual road fatalities are “too many”.
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