watched the story...nothing new in it even with a so called insider. We all know the Cootes story and it didn't seem like anything went on that wasn't happening across the entire industry. Indeed that is the premise of the whole story, that these problems are an industry wide systemic issue of underprofitability...and Cootes was no different in trying to milk the most out of their assets.
Having said that it is pretty clear they are going to get at least partly blamed for the accident and their is no avoiding that.....that is why they are losing the Shell contract.....but it is the profit squeeze from Shell, Coles, Woolies that is really the source of at least part of the blame.
As for putting old trucks into service, if they can be registered and pass safety inspections then the law says you can do it. If that is what happened in this case then presumably the authorities are at least partly to blame as well.....
all in all a bit of an anticlimax
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