A ROAD/TRUCK SOLUTION

Stop road deaths with truck rules: .   Does anyone really think that the proposal by trucking giant Toll to have more rules, etc. will stop road deaths – perhaps a suggestion dictated by the bottom line, no doubt.
This problem rears its ugly head every so often and the real answer of course, is to take trucks off the road but these trucks are a small business for the drivers and their future super.   So…open up the railway lines to freight – remember when you could put something on the train at night and tomorrow morning it was at its destination.
Return the main stations (Lithgow, Bathurst, Orange, etc. etc) to activity.
Franchise out each station and environs to an owner/driver with an assured area to service from their franchised station.
The franchisee would live in the serviced area – his family would move to their area; with more schools and shops needed;  the owner/driver would employ people as his freight expanded; the district would acquire new families/drivers – AND many trucks would be off the main road and owners would not be working to impossible time schedules.
And don’t forget that these bigger towns would become even bigger – a result governments have tried to cope with over many years