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TRUCKING INDUSTRY * Australia - WA trucking industry hits slump
"We're earning about 40 per cent of what we were last year and some would be lucky to be earning that"
Perth,WA,Australia -The Perth Now/The Sunday Times, by Cortlan Bennett -September 26, 2009: -- WA'S trucking industry has hit the skids, according to owner-drivers, as the economic crisis bites hard... It's a far cry from a year ago, when the resources boom created a driver shortage and a flurry of new-truck sales... Drivers say the double whammy of the global financial crisis and the end of the Beijing Olympics - which had created a huge resource demand for infrastructure projects - have forced many out of business and others to ruthlessly undercut each other... Mr Swift said bigger companies were also squeezing out smaller operators... Linfox confirmed this week that it had secured the transport contract for the Gorgon gas project, but there were no jobs for WA drivers yet. However the company said that would change as the project got closer... Transport Workers Union WA spokesman, Tim Dawson, said there was no doubt truckers were "doing it hard'', but he was hopeful new resources projects would create more work... (Photo from roadtransport: Tubing)
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