The Australian Trucking Association is calling for a change in the way truck crashes are investigated.
It comes following a horror crash at COORANBONG on Monday which caused a man's death and saw the M1 motorway closed to traffic.
A huge blaze was sparked as a fuel tanker clipped a parked truck, and the tanker full of ethanol exploded.
The truck driver who collided with the end of the pile-up sadly died at the scene.
Geoff Crouch from the Trucking Association says the federal government needs to give the Australian Transport Safety Bureau the power to investigate truck accidents.
In the past twelve months, NSW truck fatalities have increased by 86%. NSW is the only state to experience this trend, with the rest of Australia having their number of truck-related deaths fall.
At present, there is no clear reason for this increase in fatalities.
Geoff Crouch says the involvement of the Australian Safety Transport Bureau will allow better safety measures and regulations to be put in place.
"We are calling for the appropriate level of funding to be given to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau...to investigate serious road accidents and to come back with recommendations on how to prevent them from happening again," he said.
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