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Australia: Yet more truckies caught stoned Doug Robertson Adelaide Now Monday 14 May 2012 Police have now charged 10 heavy truck drivers with drugs and other offences since launching the annual Operation Austrans - a joint heavy-vehicle road-safety campaign in Australia and New Zealand - on May 1. Last Thursday, police charged three drivers - including two in the suburbs - with having cannabis or methamphetamine in their system. A Craigmore man, 49, allegedly returned a positive result for cannabis after being stopped while driving a road train at Chamberlain Rd, Wingfield. An inspection showed that four of the six brakes on his trailer were inoperable, police said. A B-double driver, 42, allegedly had also taken methamphetamine when tested on Portrush Rd, Marden, and a road train driver, 29, allegedly returned a positive reading for methamphetamine when stopped on the Eyre Highway, Ceduna, the same day. Four days earlier, police charged a Dublin man, 54, with driving while affected by methamphetamine at Lafitte Road, Wingfield, and a road train driver, 41, was charged after allegedly returning a positive test for methamphetamine, on the Eyre Highway, Ceduna. The day before, police charged a Salisbury Downs man, 44, with driving a road train on Port Wakefield Rd, Burton, with methamphetamine in his system. He was also reported over breaches relating to the assembling/disassembling of road trains in undesignated areas. Other significant allegations include - * Thursday, May 10: Western Australia man, 28, tested positive to drugs on the Eyre Highway, about 50km west of Ceduna, and grounded for 24 hours. The road train was defected after the patrol found the speed limiter had been tampered with. * May 10: Nairne man, 46, driving a rigid truck on Alexandrina Way, Mount Barker, returned a blood-alcohol reading of 0.178. Police impounded the truck. May 9: Salisbury man, 50, returned a positive test for methamphetamine after driving a B-Double on Princes Highway, Tailem Bend. May 6: Adelaide man, 46, returned a positive test for methamphetamine and cannabis on Eyre Highway, at Port Augusta. May 5: Hewett man 47, returned a positive test for methamphetamine on National Highway One, north of Port Wakefield . Operation Austrans has run annually since 1989, involving a range of road, transport and safety authorities throughout Australia and New Zealand. This year's operation has focused on drug offences. http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/yet-more-truckies-caught-stoned/story-e6frea83-1226355154224
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