* NSW - Transport manager takes issue with people criticising foreign truck drivers
-- A senior manager at Ron Finemore Transport has taken aim at critics of foreign truck drivers working in Australia... Paul Pulver delivered an impromptu defence of international drivers at this year’s Livestock and Bulk Carriers Association (LBCA) conference, saying they were diligent and hardworking and were necessary because many Australians did not want to work... The issue of foreign truck drivers working in Australia gained widespread media attention recently due to an incident involving a truck belonging to Scott’s of Mt Gambier... The driver, Gary Singh from India, caused significant traffic delays on Sydney’s M5 motorway when he realised the B-double was too big to enter a tunnel and tried to reverse it, jack-knifing the rig in the process... The media claimed Singh was working on a 457 visa at the time. The Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) investigation found the claim was false... Truck driving is currently not included on the list of skilled occupations for 457 visa holders... The Australian Trucking Association wrote to the Federal Government in 2013 asking it to allow overseas drivers to apply for a 457 visa to operate trucks in Australia...
(Photography by Greg Bush - Paul Pulver says Ron Finemore Transport has had to employ international truck drivers because Australians do not want to work) -- Bathurst, NSW, Australia - Owner Driver, by Brad Gardner - 14 March 2016Labels: drivers' shortage, trucking industry news Australia
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