The quality of truck driver licensing and training has been in the news since 2016, when the drivers of an overheight B-double blocked the M5 motorway in Sydney because they did not have the skills to reverse it.

Australia’s transport ministers have approved a plan to reform the national heavy vehicle driver competency framework, and Austroads is working on overseas driver licensing.

In this session, you’ll discuss—

• the planned improvements to truck driver licensing
• how they could be implemented
• the changes that might be needed to overseas driver licensing.