Anti-Rollaway

Why you need it

Vehicle rollaways pose a significant safety risk every day. These rollaway incidents can lead to major accidents, resulting in substantial property damage, personal injury, or even fatalities. The financial implications of such accidents include repair costs, legal liabilities, and increased insurance premiums.

MAX-SAFE Anti-Rollaway Brake System™ addresses this critical safety concern by ensuring vehicles remain stationary when parked, providing peace of mind and enhancing overall safety. This system is designed to mitigate risks, protect assets, and safeguard lives, making it an essential addition to any vehicle fleet.

Automatic Activation

The park brake system engages automatically when a potential vehicle rollaway is detected, eliminating the risk of human error.

Enhanced Safety

Protects both the vehicle and its surroundings by ensuring it stays securely in place, preventing potential rollaway incidents.

User-Friendly Design

Easy to install and operate, the system integrates seamlessly with existing vehicle mechanics, ensuring minimal disruption to daily operations.

Safety of personnel around the vehicle.

Protection of the vehicle and equipment.

Insurance against driver oversight.

Continuous monitoring of multiple conditions.

Both visual alerts and audible warnings*.

Intelligent logic with self-checking to ensure system integrity.

NHVR compliant solution.

Combine with MAX-SAFE Watch and View Solutions for additional safety.

Safety of personnel around the vehicle.

Protection of the vehicle and equipment.

Insurance against driver oversight.

Continuous monitoring of multiple conditions.

Both visual alerts and audible warnings*.

Intelligent logic with self-checking to ensure system integrity.

NHVR compliant solution.

Combine with MAX-SAFE Watch and View Solutions for additional safety.

Monitor

A state-of-the-art microprocessor continuously monitors multiple inputs to determine the possibility of the vehicle rolling away. Inputs include the position of the park brake lever, state of the driver’s door & seat, and vehicle speed.

Monitor

Warn

The system includes visual, audible, and external warnings to alert the driver and people nearby of potential danger. An initial warning is given if the door is opened, with the system sounding an external tonal alarm and internal buzzer, either screen messages or flashing LEDs¹.

Warn

Act

If the driver leaves the cabin without fully applying the park brake, the system activates immediately to prevent the vehicle from rolling away, creating a safe environment and activating warnings in the process. This all happens within milliseconds.

Act

Diagnose

The solution has in-built self-diagnostics, constantly checking multiple parameters to ensure the system's integrity and alerting if any faults are detected.

Diagnose

The solution has in-built self-diagnostics, constantly checking multiple parameters to ensure the system's integrity and alerting if any faults are detected.

System In Action

To give you a closer look at our MAX-SAFE Anti-Rollaway Brake System™ in action, we’ve compiled a selection of product overview and demonstration videos. These resources provide detailed visuals and real-world examples of our system.

Explore the gallery below to see the MAX-SAFE system’s features and benefits firsthand.

Over the 10-year period from 2003 to 2012, incidents that occurred while loading or unloading a vehicle accounted for 15% of truck-related fatalities (120 out of 787 deaths) in Australia.

Of those 120 fatalities during loading/unloading, 44 deaths (37%) were caused by the vehicle moving unintentionally, such as the truck driver being hit by their own vehicle, or a pedestrian being struck by the truck.

The failure to apply truck parking brakes properly is cited as a major cause of these rollaway incidents leading to injuries and fatalities.

In 2021, SafeWork Australia identified "ensuring vehicles are braked appropriately" as one of their top 7 recommendations for reducing heavy vehicle fatalities related to rollaways.

"When you go to a fire, and your adrenaline is rushing, you need to focus on the fire and what you need to do. Worrying about whether you’ve left the handbrake on or not, is the last thing on your mind."

Lenny Toscano
First Officer for the Brigade, QLD Rural Fire Service

"The MAX-SAFE Seatbelt Warning System™ optimises the safety of our clients’ most valuable asset – their employees – and Kinetics employees."

Joe Gould
Regional Manager – Workshop, Kinetic Specialised Resources

"When you see the kits, the installation and how it works in action, no driver intervention, nothing for the driver to remember, safety of the vehicle and safety of the people, it’s well worth it."

Wayne Muiznieks
Fleet Coordinator, Connetics, New Zealand

"Less than 45 minutes into day one of the trial, the system prevented what could have been a potential accident with an adult. It highlighted how close a near miss it was and how vital this type of solution was."

Jonathan Dick
General Manager Fleet & Systems, Smart Environmental, NZ

"MAX-SAFE Side View Solution provided superior VRU detection to standard side mirrors and cameras and was most beneficial to the drivers involved in the trial."

Matthew Wentman
National Fleet Manager, Cleanaway Waste Management

"We have used SGESCO-MAX products for over three years and have found them to be an innovative safety solution for our fleet vehicles and effective in achieving zero incidents in trucks reversing or accidentally rolling away."

Tony Rawson
National Fleet Category Manager, Suez Recycling & Recovery, ANZ

"There is a big need for MAX-SAFE products in New Zealand. You only hear about a roll away when there is a crash, but the number is far greater than what is reported. Recently, there was a tour bus in Auckland that rolled away and ran over a Mum and a baby. Both survived luckily, but if the bus had the MAX-SAFE device fitted this accident never would have occurred."

Gary Puklowski
Managing Director, Autokraft Electrical & Diesel Ltd