* Truck off! Scrapping Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal endangers us all
* Tribunal puts truck drivers and the public at serious risk...
* South A. - Wellington truck drivers want a better deal
-- The truckie turf wars are claiming victim after victim and it’s tearing families apart says a Wellington owner operator... The federal government, is backing the battler and promising to abandon to much maligned Safety Remuneration Tribunal. Lyn Hough says the ‘little man’ is getting done over and her husband’s blood sweat and tears can sometimes amount to nothing. Minimum pay rates and pages of red tape have taken them almost ‘to the end of the road’... There are warnings some truck drivers may try and take the life, trucking organizations are not taking the calls lightly. Their trucks are highly mortgaged and Mrs Hough says even employing an extra family member and not following the right rules can cost large sums of money in fines... Federal Mp for Parkes Mark Coulton says its a devastating time for truckies... ATA Chief Executive Christopher Melham said the RSRT and its minimum payments order were causing dire outcomes for owner drivers and small businesses...
(Photo: Wellington's truck drivers: Russell Hough, Lauchlan Stiff and Jamie Sattler) -- Wellington, SA, Australia - The Wellington Times - 15 April 2016
* Victoria - Dump a damaging truck regulator
-- The likely fate of the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal – established in 2012 and set for abolition by a recalled federal parliament next week – is a lesson in industrial relations overreach... The purpose of the tribunal has been to consolidate the hold of the Transport Workers Union over the supply of truck driver labour... The big trucking companies, which for decades have done their own sweetheart deals with the TWU, supported a tribunal that would make it harder for them to be undercut by independent owner-driver operators. And the apparent trump card was using driver safety as the ruse to suppress wage and price competition in the trucking industry...
(Photo by Casual CAS - Owner-operator trucks are threatened by the pay decision) -- Melbourne, VIC, Australia - The Australian Financial Review - 15 April 2016Labels: truckers' complain, trucking industry news Australia
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