 Okay, well good morning and thank you for your presence here today in relation to Queensland Road Safety Week, day three of our program and today we're highlighting the issues of both fatigue and restraints. Today there's a series of events right around Queensland and the major event is here at Federal on the Bruce Highway and we're really grateful to be joined by Transport and Main Roads and also our key partners from the Queensland Trucking Association. We can all play a part in road safety and the most important part we can play is that we make good responsible decisions, the best possible decisions we can in the circumstances that we face. In many circumstances that relates to fatigue, so if you're travelling long distances for your work or for your leisure or for your holidays please manage your fatigue. Take a rest every two hours and make sure you understand your limitations and the limitations of your vehicle. Fatigue is one of the major contributors to the road toll in this state both for serious traffic crashes with injury and fatality traffic crashes. So it's not a matter of it won't happen to me, we can all be part of a traffic crash if we're not careful and if we're travelling long distances we need to manage our fatigue. I'd now like to hand over to Peter Garski, the CEO of the Queensland Trucking Association and I'd also like to thank Peter for his great work of his association and its members in managing the road toll and the positive contributions they make to the proactive measures that are in place. Good evening, good morning, I'll try that again. Good morning, thank you Mike for those kind words in relation to my industry. The Queensland Trucking Association is pleased to be partnering with both QPS and TMR in highlighting the need for a greater focus on fatigue management by my industry. Fatigue is a proven or the failure to control fatigue is a proven killer on the roads not only for the average motorist but for the drivers of heavy vehicles. You can look at the statistics day in and day out and yes I can argue that the heavy vehicle industry safety standards have improved considerably on the last five year average. However that's not good enough when we stand here today and know the 27 fatalities so far this year have involved a heavy vehicle not necessarily the heavy vehicles fault but have involved the heavy vehicle. We need a greater contribution from the heavy vehicle industry from the drivers of heavy vehicles to pay greater attention to sharing the road and we need every other driver on the road to pay greater attention to sharing the road with the heavy vehicle. We need to focus on managing our driver fatigue and we need to focus on managing our temptation to be distracted from the task at hand. It is a very responsible role that heavy vehicle drivers have in moving the nation's freight task. I urge all drivers not just today not just this week but throughout their careers to pay greater attention to their need to manage fatigue. I'd just like to express the positive contributions that we're making within Transport and Main Roads in partnering with Queensland Police Service and the Queensland Trucking Association to hold events such as these which give us an opportunity for our transport inspectors to engage with heavy vehicle industry and drivers to talk about the importance of managing fatigue and how that then improves the road tolls. So thank you. Mike Condon from the Central Region. Could I thank the words and wisdom of the previous speakers and congratulate to all of you on the partnerships that we've formed over the years but in particular for Road Safety Week. The Central Region has 66% of the Pacific Highway and tragically from year to year we tend to have the most fatalities and as you've heard fatigue plays a major part of that. It's important that we manage our fatigue that we look at where we're going, work through the number of hours it takes to get to a point safely and have those rests during that process. We've got to be able to share the roads whilst there is constant criticism of the actual condition of the roads at the end of the day it's people behind the wheels making poor decisions or people riding motorbikes bikes making poor decisions that causes these fatalities. So let's work together it's everyone's responsibility speak up for road safety and make sure that we're looking after our people that are in cars if you see someone that is fatigued or has driven for some considerable time make sure you communicating with those people and perhaps urge them to stop and just take a little bit of a rest because if you do that you will get to your place safely. Thank you. I'll just do something on restraint. The message for today in relation to road safety week Queensland's first ever road safety week is in relation to fatigue. That's our first first message. The second message for today is also in relation to restraints. Tragically we see incidents every week across the state and repeated every year where tragedies are completely preventable simply because people are not wearing a restraint as they should be in their vehicle as they go about their activities. The wearing of restraints has been compulsory in Queensland for decades. It is no good to say that you didn't know you had to wear your seat belt. It's no good to say that the seat belt doesn't fit you. You as a motorist as a passenger in a vehicle have responsibilities and in sharing your road safety responsibilities today we would ask you to be conscious of the issue of fatigue right throughout the year as you move around the roads and also the use of restraints. This is not the only activity for road safety week this week today. We are seeing events right across Queensland and can I highlight for you that there are events in relation to heavy vehicles taking place at Emerald today and tomorrow at Jandawi for the sorry at Jandawian tomorrow afternoon there'll be another event and even events as far away as McKinlay where there's a very important activity promoting the stay on track outback message. This has been a very successful campaign and has reduced incidents on the western roads throughout Queensland remarkably over the last few years. So no matter where you are in Queensland please accept your responsibilities as a road user and be sure that you do the right thing all of the time. Thank you.