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Jan 16, 2016

TO END PAY-BY-THE-MILE in * Australia: TRUCKERS' SATISFIED ** BIG Cos. Toll and Linfox: OPPOSED

* Australia - Safety drives for many of its truck drivers, and replacing it with guaranteed minimum hourly wages
-- (As we gave the scoop) 
-- Australia is in the process of eliminating pay by the mile for many of its truck drivers, and replacing it with guaranteed minimum hourly wages, a program the government is calling “safe rates”... The program was approved last month by that government’s Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal and will go into effect on April 4 for owner-operators who are in the long-haul and food services market sectors... The agency said it is also currently at work at extending the hourly-wage requirement to drivers who work in drayage, waste management and fuel sectors... 
(Getty Images - Australia is in the process of eliminating pay-by-the-mile for many of its truck drivers and replacing it with guaranteed minimum hourly wages)  --  Washington, DC, USA - Fleet Owner, by Howard Abramson - Jan 13, 2016


* ACT - Toll, Linfox 'reluctantly' opposed minimum rates for long-distance truck drivers

-- Both companies urged tribunal not to mandate hourly and kilometre rates for linehaul sector... Not even the combined might of Australia’s two largest trucking players could prevent mandatory minimum pay rates for owner-drivers in the long-distance sector being introduced... Toll and Linfox penned a joint submission to the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal (RSRT) late last year urging it not to set hourly and kilometre payments for linehaul drivers, saying the RSRT needed to "tread cautiously" before regulating the sector... The tribunal subsequently announced fixed rates would begin on April 4 this year for contractor drivers (a driver classified as an independent contractor) working in the supermarket distribution sector – a move Toll and Linfox support – and long-distance operations (return journeys of more than 500km)... In their submission, Toll and Linfox argued setting rates for linehaul work would be difficult given the numerous types of vehicles used in the sector, the differing fuel burn rates due to the various types of freight transported, and the different amounts paid for trips between regional and capital cities... 
(Photo: Toll says it is "reluctantly" unable to support mandatory minimum rates for owner-drivers in the the long-distance sector)  --  Canberra, ACT, Australia - - Owner Driver, by Brad Gardner - 15 Jan 2016

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