* Queensland - A safety boost for the trucking industry in
-- Just before Christmas, a major safety boost came in for the state's trucking industry... Peter Biagini, Branch Secretary of the TWU in Queensland, said: "The Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal's ruled on minimum safe rates for owner drivers. It will ensure long-distance drivers are paid the full cost of their work, easing pressure on an industry with the highest rate of work-related fatalities" ...
(Photo: Owner working at his own truck) -- Victoria, QNLD, Australia - blogs ABC net, by Lachlan Mackintosh - 12 January 2016
* ACT - TWU wants 30-day payment terms throughout trucking industry
-- Provision guaranteeing 30-day payment for contractors should cover all transport operators, union says... All transport operators should be paid within 30 days of completing a job, the Transport Workers Union (TWU) says... Fresh from securing mandatory minimum rates for owner-drivers, the TWU is now trying to halt the alarming increase in the time it is taking parties in the supply chain to settle accounts with their transport providers... The Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal (RSRT) in 2014 ordered that contractor drivers be paid within 30 days of work, and TWU national assistant secretary Michael Kaine says the RSRT should now extend the measure throughout the industry... Reports emerged last year of trucking firms having to wait as long as 120 days to receive payment, a practice Kaine fears is pushing companies close to financial ruin and undermining safety...
(Photo) -- Canberra, ACT, Australia - Owner Driver mag, by Brad Gardner - 12 Jan 2016Labels: trucks' drivers payment
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