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DANGEROUS JOB * Australia
* Australia - Truckie calls for 'danger money' after watching mate die
Ilbilbie,Australia -The Daily Mercury, by Dominic Geiger -17 Jan 2013: -- Moments after they drank coffee together, truck driver Steven Corcoran watched his mate and colleague David Barrett die on the Bruce Hwy... Since the horrific crash near Ilbilbie in early 2012, Mr Corcoran has struggled to cope... Diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder and anxiety, Mr Corcoran no longer drives trucks for a living... But that doesn't mean he hasn't been busy... Spurred on by the death of his friend, Mr Corcoran has spent the past seven months asking fellow truckies to sign a petition calling on the Federal Government to introduce a danger money allowance into the truck driver award agreement...
Mr Corcoran is asking for a danger money allowance of $100 a day for all Australian truck drivers - an amount he says those involved in the most dangerous industry in the country deserve... Mr Corcoran has travelled more than 20,000km in his quest to gain support. Federal MP, Bert Van Manen...
* New Zealand - Jobs and safety risked in proposed changes
Auckland,NZ -Stuff.NZ, by WILLIAM MACE -7 Jan 2013: -- Proposed changes to the vehicle licensing system could mean the loss of up to 2000 jobs and reduced oversight of the safety of trucks on New Zealand’s roads... A Government decision on possible changes to the private car Warrant of Fitness [WoF] and commercial vehicle Certificate of Fitness [CoF] regimes was expected to be made public in the next two months... Inspectors that were either on the payroll of the trucking company they’re inspecting, or were only interested in declining CoF licences in order to inflate subsequent repair bills, could flourish under the new rules... Walsh said abolishing the prohibition on inspectors doubling as repairers would mean VTNZ would have to cut jobs, locations and services... According to the Ministry of Transport as many as 2000 people could lose employment with the changes to both WoF and CoF rules...
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