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Feb 15, 2015

* Australia: To investigate link between port driver pay, safety

* ACT - Pay levels that are low when compared to other professions, are a factor in driver shortages

-- The Australian government is launching an inquiry into the drayage industry practices at five major ports that could lead to higher mandated levels of driver pay or new work rules...  Australia’s Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal will look into pay and other practices related to container drayage at the ports of Brisbane, Melbourne, Freemantle and Sydney...  The drayage investigation is part of a broader review of the linkage between truck driver pay, working conditions and road safety in the independent tribunal’s third annual work program... The Container Transport Alliance Australia, an association of drayage-related businesses, criticized the RSRT’s drayage inquiry... Truck driver pay is a global issue for shippers moving product in international supply chains and companies trying to keep and hire drivers and attract new workers to the field... However, the RSRT, created by 2012 Australia’s Road Safety Remuneration Act, makes a direct link between levels of driver pay and highway safety. And the federal tribunal’s remit includes shippers and consignees as well as trucking employers and truck drivers... The inquiry is supported, however, by the Transport Workers Union of Australia and the Victorian Transport Association, a logistics group in Australia’s most densely populated state... (Photo: Sydney port, aerial view) - Canberra, ACT, Australia -JOC, by William B. Cassidy -13 Feb 2015

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