* ACT - Owner-operator truck drivers say new rules will prevent them competing with bigger companies
-- Owner-operator truck drivers fear they will be unable to compete against major transport companies when new laws force them to charge their clients at or above a new minimum rate... Trucking companies that employ drivers will not be required to stick with the same minimum rate, meaning they will be allowed to charge clients a lower rate than what owner-operators are forced to charge... The Transport Workers Union supports the new rules and argues they will ease financial pressure on small operators, which in turn will improve safety... The union's national assistant secretary Michael Caine said despite the concerns held by owner-operators, they would be better off because they would be able to charge more... Despite the union's faith in the new rules, a growing number of organisations claim the end result will mean major companies will be able to charge clients a lower rate than the rate owner-operators will be forced by law to charge...
(Photo from ABC TV: Owner-operator truck drivers fear they will be unable to compete under new rules) -- Canberra, ACT, Australia - ABC Rural/Vic Country Hour, by David Sparkes - 11 March 2016
* New South Wales - Griffith driver backs new pay structure set to force local truck drivers out of business
-- A Griffith truck driver has slammed resistance to a new fee structure after local self-employed and family-run trucking businesses aired fears they were being forced off the road.
The Daily Advertiser reported on Friday the union-backed Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal (RSRT) mandated minimum pay rates which would ban part loads and return loads, but larger companies with employee drivers remained free to set their own rates.. As a result, local truck drivers were deciding between ignoring the order or sacking their own children simply to avoid having to charge “contract driver” rates they believed would price them out of the market... Steven Corcoran, whose name featured on the front page of the RSRT’s report after formally requesting truckies be paid $100 worth of “danger money” per day, supported the new rules... Mr Corcoran said the mandatory pricing formula would reduce financial pressure to drive when it wasn’t safe... Adelong-based Australian Long Distance Owners and Drivers Association national president, Bunny Brown, has campaigned for the new rate to be delayed by six months...
(Picture: Melbourne Truck Show 2012 Australia. Baxter's impressive Kenworth K200 -2.9 metre cab- B-Triple) -- Griffith, NSW, Australia - The Daily Advertiser, by Jack Morphet - March 11, 2016Labels: minimum freight rates
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