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TRUCKING SHORTAGE * New Zealand
* Auckland - Why no one's behind the wheel?
(Video by Will Bishop - Sep 13, 2015: Some of the local Taranaki trucks up and down Mt Messenger Nth Taranaki New Zealand)
-- Seventy-five-thousand trucks move goods across New Zealand every day, but we're short on people to drive them... The unions put the 2400-person shortage down to low pay and long hours... The Government's calculated the average wage for a truck driver at around $16-$25 per hour... Ken Shirley, Road Transport Forum Chief Executive, says the lengthy and expensive licensing process doesn't help. He says it can take two and a half years and thousands of dollars to complete... Mr Shirley says big clients are "trying to screw down the freight rates", but "there's no more juice in the lemon" ... Lower Hutt driver Harley Tripae works four days on, two days off. Each shift is 12- to 14-hours long. He drives a fuel tanker, and says those carrying dangerous goods can earn close to a six-figure salary...
Auckland, NZ - News Hub, by Ryan Bridge - 18 Apr 2016
Labels: truckers shortage
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