Australia’s 100,000 truck drivers are being urged by National Transport Insurance (NTI) to send a special delivery to the Federal and State Governments on road funding.

The insurer – expected to soon become a wholly owned subsidiary of IAG after part-owner Promina’s acquisition by Suncorp – says hauling the nation’s freight gives truck drivers a unique view on which roads require the most urgent attention.

Following the release of the Federal Budget, NTI is urging truck drivers to tell the Government where road funding needs to be spent.

“Nobody knows our highways better than the thousands of professional drivers using those stretches of bitumen every hour of every day,” NTI GM Marketing Mike Edmonds said.

“As a major stakeholder in truck road safety in Australia, NTI wants to ensure that decision-makers are armed with every bit of useful information they can have.”

Mr Edmonds says NTI will periodically gather data and, together with the Australian Trucking Association, report to federal and state authorities on where road funding is most needed. New information will be cross-referenced with NTI truck crash data to create an extensive national blackspot and rest-spot register.