Operation AUSTRANS primarily focuses on road safety within the heavy vehicle road transport sector. In recent years, ANZPAA has facilitated Operation AUSTRANS. This role has now ceased.
Road safety within the heavy vehicle sector remains critically important and police jurisdictions and relevant road, transport and safety agencies will continue to undertake activities to address road safety with respect to heavy vehicles.
All media enquiries regarding future heavy vehicle operations should be directed to the relevant police media unit.
The statistics provided below are those captured during Operation AUSTRANS 2015.
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National Yearly Figures by Offence Type
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TOTAL
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Speed
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574
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Seat Belts
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402
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Mobile Phones / Distraction offences
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237
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Dangerous Driving / Lane Behaviour / Fail Give Way etc.
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52
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Drive Unlicensed / Suspended / Disqualified
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323
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Drive Unregistered and or Uninsured
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574
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Other Offences (relating to H/Vehicle)
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2680
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Dangerous Goods/OHS Offences
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191
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Permit breaches (Restricted Access / Over dimension etc)
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314
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Improvement Notices issued
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348
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Direction Notices issued (Stop Work / Off Load – NOT DRIVER TESTING)
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249
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H/Veh. Defect/ Breach Veh Standards (not speed limiting) Other
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1494
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H/Veh. Defect/ Breach Veh Standards (not speed limiting) Minor Defects
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5169
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H/Veh. Defect/ Breach Veh Standards (not speed limiting) Major Defects
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1076
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Drug and alcohol offences[1]
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TOTAL
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Drug offences (Possession/Use/Trafficking)
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71
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Heavy Vehicle Searches conducted (Any Authority used)
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126
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Alcotests conducted[2]
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51393
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Drink (Alcohol) Driving offenders detected (PCA / DUI)[3]
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36
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Drug Driver Screening tests conducted
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7531
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Drug Driver – Positive Oral Fluid / DUI Drugs
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154
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Alcohol / Drug Driving Direction Notices issued
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10
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Fatigue Offences & Risk Level
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TOTAL
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Work Diary - Exceed Work / Fail take required Rest[4]
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1100
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Work Diary - Fail to Produce / Carry[5]
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281
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Work Diary / Supplementary Records – Fail to complete[6]
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1120
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Work Diary - Other (False Entries / Records breach etc.)[7]
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455
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Fatigue Accreditation breach - Fail carry documents etc.
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48
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Drive whilst Fatigued
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29
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Fatigue Offences committed by other Party (COR)
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238
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Mass, Dimensions, Loading and Risk level
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| Exceed mass |
1511 |
| Exceed dimensions |
387 |
| Load restraint |
1518 |
| Mass/Dim./Load Offence committed by other Party (COR) |
76 |
| Heavy Vehicle Speed Limiting |
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| Speed Limiting Breach / possess device – Driver Liability |
145 |
| Speed Limiting Breach – Operator Liability |
1 |
National Yearly Figures by Vehicle Type
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2015
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Road Train/B Triple
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5819
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B-Double
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19295
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Articulated
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22496
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Rigid Truck
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25863
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Coach/Bus
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1038
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Footnotes
[1] NZ do not have oral fluid tests, drug screening tests or direction notices
[2] Entered by NZPol as “Breath tests conducted”
[3] Entered by NZPol as “Drink (Alcohol) Driving offenders detected”
[4] Entered by NZPol as “Logbook - Exceed Work time/ Fail take required Rest”
[5] Entered by NZPol as “Logbook - Fail to Produce / Carry”
[6] Entered by NZPol as “Logbook / Supplementary Records – Omissions”
[7] Entered by NZPol as “Logbook - Other - False Entries”