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Rod Hannifey has been doing the numbers. He reckons 80 to 85 per cent of Australian truck drivers do everything right, another 10 to 15 per cent get pushed too hard by a boss or a customer, and fewer than 5 per cent have decided the rules do not apply to them. What worries him is that police ministers and commissioners seem increasingly willing to talk about the whole industry as though it were that last 5 per cent. This week he puts those figures to you directly and asks whether they match the industry you know, and what could actually be done about it.
Rod and Luke also work through where your electronic work diary data ends up once Transport Certification Australia is holding it, and what happens when AI is pointed at five years of records. NatRoad chief executive Warren Clark has written about operators still signing contracts with no fuel recovery clause, which leads into something Rod has been watching from the road: whole fleets appearing at auction, and the undercutting spiral that follows when that gear sells cheap. There is Toll's new hydrogen prime mover rollout with Viva Energy and BlueScope, the story of what really happened to LPG, and Victoria's five proposed heavy vehicle licensing reforms, which prompt the line of the episode: we do not have a driver shortage, we have a shortage of people who want to be drivers.

And for R U OK Day, Rod makes the case for ringing a mate, with a number from his own Christmas phone calls that is hard to hear.

Plus a copy of Toots: Woman in a Man's World by Donna Vawdrey to give away, a Hughes Law court win teased for next week, and Where's Rod Been returns with an Ian Moss clue.

⚠ Content warning: this episode includes a brief, non-graphic discussion of suicide during the R U OK Day segment. Listener discretion advised.
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Guests: Rod Hannifey (Truckie Tuesday co-host, National Road Freighters Association)

(00:00) Cold Open & G'day From The Dubbo Yard
(00:51) Book Giveaway: Toots, Woman In A Man's World
(04:00) Justin's Voicemail: The Gap In Front Of The Truck
(06:28) Dashcams, Triple Zero And Dobbing
(09:16) Ross's Voicemail: Three Kinds Of Fatigue
(12:46) Darren's Voicemail: Automatic High Beams
(17:07) In-Cab Cameras, The TCA And Your Data
(20:26) NatRoad's Warren Clark On Fuel Contracts
(21:48) Whole Fleets Going To Auction
(25:50) Petrol Prices, Cost Of Living And Theft
(27:25) Toll's Hydrogen Prime Movers
(31:53) Trailers That Make Their Own Power
(34:26) Victoria Rewrites Heavy Vehicle Licensing
(36:37) We Don't Have A Driver Shortage
(39:04) R U OK Day: Ring A Mate
(42:49) Rod's Rant: The 80/15/5 Split
(45:10) Where's Rod Been? The Reveal

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Barnaby Joyce says he was told to leave the Nationals, not once but a number of times. David Littleproud says it never happened. "He's never been asked to leave the National Party, ever," the Maranoa MP and former party leader tells Luke. "That is an outright lie, and I'm very disappointed that he'd even say that." He also takes on migration numbers, the fuel excise, whether Pauline Hanson went too far on Anthony Albanese's late mother, and whether Erin Patterson's solitary confinement crosses a line.

Then Dr Karl Kruszelnicki on a new Harvard study that puts cabin crew and pilots at the top of 503 occupations for radiation-linked cancer deaths, what hydrogen can and can't do for ships, planes and steel, and why yawning is contagious. Scott Phillips from The Motley Fool on why One Nation's early-super policy would worsen the problem it's meant to solve, and the surprisingly good story of Australian credit from Bankcard in 1974 to tap-and-go. Daily Telegraph journalist Jessica Wang on what the Canberra press gallery actually sees. And on Truckie Tuesday, Rod Hannifey on Toll's new hydrogen prime movers, Victoria's licensing shake-up, fuel clauses and the race to the bottom, and a question he wants every driver in the country to answer.

Plus listener mail on the Aldi middle aisle, superannuation, and who should be playing the grand final.

This episode discusses suicide and mental health. Support: Lifeline 13 11 14 (24/7).

Guests: David Littleproud (Nationals MP for Maranoa, former party leader) · Jessica Wang (journalist, The Daily Telegraph) · Scott Phillips (Chief Investment Officer, The Motley Fool Australia) · Dr Karl Kruszelnicki · Rod Hannifey (Truckie Tuesday co-host)

(00:00:00) Cold Open And Welcome Back
(00:07:15) The Alan Jones Trial And Ray Hadley's Evidence
(00:16:33) Harry And Meghan Move Back To The UK
(00:22:29) Listener Mail
(00:30:24) David Littleproud On Migration And Broken Promises
(00:43:32) Littleproud Answers Barnaby Joyce
(00:45:38) Erin Patterson's Solitary Confinement
(00:49:34) Jessica Wang From The Canberra Press Gallery
(01:03:10) Scott Phillips On Early Access To Super
(01:12:05) The History Of Australian Credit
(01:33:15) Dr Karl On Aircrew Cancer Risk
(01:43:59) Hydrogen For Ships, Planes And Steel
(02:00:36) Is Yawning Contagious?
(02:07:59) Truckie Tuesday With Rod Hannifey
(02:34:54) Toll's Hydrogen Prime Movers
(02:46:33) R U OK? Day
(02:50:29) Rod's Rant
(02:54:11) Thought Of The Day

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Tracy Tully spent a career in the roughest schools in Australia, and she taught on both sides of 1995, the year corporal punishment ended in Queensland state schools. She caned children. The ones she caned still stop her in the street. Ask her whether it should come back and the answer is not the one you expect.This one is a Man Cave, so Luke Bona and Adam MacDonald get there sideways. It starts with dumb phones, a 20 cent yo-yo now worth 700 dollars, and Adam's theory that everyone is just trying to buy their youth back. It lands on what happens to boys who grow up without a man in the house who gets them. Adam's answer is one teacher, a jiu jitsu coach, and week on week off with a mother he never stopped getting along with. Tracy's answer is the story at the centre of this episode.First day at a school out west, brief of two words: fix it. By five o'clock she had expelled the six worst boys in the school, and by five o'clock she had a plan for them. Her family ran shearing teams. She asked for six men she could absolutely trust. The boys went into the sheds for six weeks with no phone, no alcohol and no drugs, running at dawn, learning how to fix a tap, sitting around a campfire at night having the conversations nobody had ever had with them. Every parent signed. Every boy stayed at school. She gave each of them a shearer's singlet and they wore it into town like a uniform. Most of them are still in the game.Also in this one: Book Week costume bans, school uniforms as the great leveller, the student who was allowed to identify as a cat and drink milk from a saucer while Adam's son got pinged for wearing a hoodie, Adam's own father walking into a police station, and a 1965 Humphrey B. Bear that is about to go in the post.Guests: Tracy Tully, author of FEARless Buckle UP Build ResilienceHeads up: this episode discusses the corporal punishment of children, a ten-year-old being assaulted, a father striking his teenage son, threats made against a family, and two deaths. It contains strong language.Support: Kids Helpline 1800 55 1800 (24/7) - Lifeline 13 11 14 (24/7)00:00 Cold Open: "It Didn't Damage Them Too Much"00:11 Welcome Back To The Man Cave00:33 Why Everyone Is Buying Dumb Phones Again01:48 The 20 Cent Yo-Yo Now Worth 700 Bucks02:39 Tracy Tully Joins Us04:05 The Kids Growing Up With No Male Role Model05:28 Adam On Raising Wonder Boy Week On, Week Off06:26 The One Teacher Who Actually Gets You07:27 Army Brats And Fathers Who Did Not Bend10:03 The Creek Bed, The Cliff And The Sister Who Cried10:45 Wonder Boy Found The Bible11:57 Two Years In The Army, A Lifetime Of Hospital Corners14:16 Single Sex, Coed Or Private: Does It Matter?16:32 What Girls Did To The Toughest Boys In School18:17 "Fix It, Tracy": Day One At A School Out West21:00 Six Boys Gone Before Five O'Clock21:45 "I Need Six Mentors"23:21 Six Weeks, No Phones, No Drugs, Up At Dawn25:03 The Singlet That Became Their Identity26:03 The Coach Who Said The One Thing That Landed28:22 The Flood, The Department And The Cost To Her Family33:36 Book Week Bans And Harry Potter35:20 Uniforms: The Great Leveller36:35 A Tail Is Fine, A Hoodie Is Not38:17 "I Identify As My Yellow Wheelie Bin"40:17 Bring Back The Cane? Then Yes, Now No42:10 The Night Adam's Father Walked Into The Police Station43:57 The Fisher-Price Clock She Wishes She Kept45:37 A 1965 Humphrey B. Bear47:59 What Adam Has Coming Up🫶 Join The Bonafide FamilyGet Your Bonafide Merch here: https://bonafidepod.com/en-audFollow Me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LukeBonaThatRadioGuy/Catch Up On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lukey.bona/Subscribe to us on YouTube to stay updated with LIVE SHOWS:🎙️ Get InvolvedLeave us a digital voicemail here: https://www.speakpipe.com/BonafideCall the Bonafide Hotline to leave a voicemail: (02) 9128 9311Want to be a guest or suggest a topic? Reach out at: community@bonafidepod.com

Lachlan is a young truck driver. He booked his heavy vehicle licence upgrade, paid his fees, turned up at the testing centre, and was sent home. The reason he was given: the safety cameras inside his employer's truck can't be deactivated, and tampering with them is a sackable offence. Two other drivers from the same company had already tested in the same truck without an issue. Rod Hannifey and Luke Bona work through what he should do next, and it opens onto the question the industry hasn't answered. A truck is a workplace, but it's also a bedroom. So who gets to watch, and who keeps what they see?

Plus: the NHVR and Transport Certification Australia have built a new Generation 2.0 electronic work diary framework, with the specification due out within weeks, and Hughes Law's Belinda Hughes reads what the fact sheet doesn't say about where all that fatigue data is headed. Sham contracting is costing the country billions in lost tax revenue and driving decent operators out of business. NHVR chief executive Nicole Rosie is flying to Dubbo to spend a full day in Rod's truck. Senator Bridget McKenzie is confirmed for a coming episode. There's a new segment where you can put a legal question straight to Belinda. And Where's Rodney is finally solved, at Wyaga Creek on the Gore Highway.

Guests: Rod Hannifey (Truckie Tuesday co-host, National Road Freighters Association) · Belinda Hughes (Principal, Hughes Law)

(00:00) Cold Open: "Why Is Your Hat Over The Camera?"
(01:16) Where's Rodney: Last Week's Clues
(02:06) Gen 2.0 Electronic Work Diaries Land In Weeks
(03:35) Sham Contracting And The Race To The Bottom
(08:37) Listener Mail: Refused A Licence Test Over In-Cab Cameras
(11:56) Asleep In The Bunk, Phoned About A Hat
(14:10) Your Truck Is Your Home
(16:19) Hughes Law: Where Your Fatigue Data Goes Next
(19:54) Revenue Or Road Safety?
(21:07) NHVR Boss Nicole Rosie Rides With Rod
(23:52) New Segment: Ask The Legal Eagle
(25:17) Rod's Rant On The Blitz Numbers
(27:03) Where's Rodney: The Answer
(29:27) Sign-Off

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Michael Hope has been around AFL his whole life, he knows Isaac Heeney and he knows his family, and he says the Sydney Swans now have a problem that suspending five players does not fix. On this Man Cave he tells Luke Bona and Adam MacDonald what he would do if he were on that board: trade all five at the end of the season, and bring in a testing regime the club runs itself. Hope trained as a pharmacist before he was a winemaker, and the detail he brings to what a drug test can and cannot find is the part of this conversation nobody else is having.

Plus: why an AFL club cannot simply tear up a contract the way an NRL club can, what Richmond were thinking on their Mad Monday, the lawyers already circling with civil claims, and the moment Adam pulls out a set of 1930s polio calipers and a straitjacket.

UPDATE, correcting what we said on air: this episode was recorded in late August. Since then, Victoria Police confirmed on 2 September that Sexual Crimes Squad detectives interviewed four men in relation to the Pullman Hotel allegations. Riley Bice, who the club also stood down, is not being investigated over the sexual assault allegations. No arrests have been made and no charges have been laid against anyone. Police expect to provide a further update in around eight weeks.

Everything discussed here is an allegation. Nobody has been charged.

Michael Hope's view of the AFL's illicit drugs policy is his own. For what the policy actually says, the AFL Players' Association publishes it directly.

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00:00 Cold Open: They've Now Got A Serious Problem
00:12 Welcome To The Man Cave
00:51 Why We Called Michael Hope
01:17 The Allegations We Are Leaving To The Police
03:54 Inside The AFL Bubble
05:22 The Five Players Stood Down
06:57 Boys Will Be Boys, And Where It Stops
08:20 The Pullman Five, And Why They Have To Go
10:39 The CEO Who Would Not Answer The Drug Question
11:47 What A Club Should Do Instead
12:38 Hair Testing: 10 To 90 Days
14:52 Civil Claims, Lawyers And The Mud That Sticks
17:44 The Isaac Heeney Nobody Talks About
21:33 Jai Arrow's 100th Game
23:54 What's In Adam's Hands: Calipers, A Straitjacket And A Gimp Mask

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