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Professional Driver's Digest
Chapter 1: You the driver

WHAT THE LAW EXPECTS

The National Road Traffic Act
History of regulated transport
The RTQS
Enforcement

POLICE POWERS AND YOUR RIGHTS
Regulating and controlling traffic
Power to stop vehicles
Requesting information and documents
Prohibiting driving
Driving of vehicle
Examination of vehicle
Towing vehicle away
Illegal loads

DUTIES

DRIVING LICENCES

Disqualifications
Disclosure of a new or worsening condition
How many licences may you hold?
Learner’s licence
Vehicle classification
Insufficient and inappropriate categories
The card
Grandfather endorsement for bus drivers
Breakdown vehicle driver
The professional driving permit
Age of drivers
Applying for, or renewing, a licence
Grounds to refuse a professional driving permit
Temporary licence
Duration
Production of licence
Change of address
Suspension
Cancellation
Endorsement of offences
Licences issued elsewhere
Driving outside the country

THE HEAVY MOTOR VEHICLE TEST

The yard test
The road test
Hints and tips
Right of appeal

DRIVER’S HOURS

Log books
Proposed driving and rest periods
Fatigue - a major cause of accidents
Posture

YOUR PERSONAL SAFETY
Clothing
Boarding and alighting from the truck
Coupling and uncoupling
Working under the vehicle
Tilting cab
Hydraulic tipper bodies
Tanker walkways
Cleaning the windscreen
Loading and offloading
The workshop
Diesel spillage
Fire precautions

YOUR HEALTH
First aid
Medic Alert
Medicinal drugs
Eyesight
Age and vision
Improving driving vision
A I D S (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)
Crossing the borderAbsenteeism

DRINK, DRUGS AND DRIVING

The evidentiary breathalyser test
Alternative blood test
Driving under the influence
The effects of alcohol
Drug abuse
Combining dagga with alcohol
Penalties
Diminished responsibility is no defence

SMOKING AND DRIVING


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Driver's Daily Log and Trip Sheet

With Daily Vehicle Check

Control drivers and vehicles with this off-the-shelf, easy to use, log book system. Monitor fuel usage, distances travelled, driver’s hours and performance, vehicle roadworthiness, and record who drove what, where and when.
It provides for recording, the date, driver’s name, names of employees accompanying the driver, vehicle registration number, trailer registration number, kilometre reading at start and end of duty, distance covered, place started and ended duty, time started and ended work, hours at normal time, overtime hours, as well as the amount of fuel and oil taken on. The log also allows for up to 17 drops or collections to be recorded alongside odometer readings, customer names, consignment numbers, times arrived and departed, etc. More>

 


 




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