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Trucking Needs a Mandatory Code
Sep 27, 2016The Australian Government should confirm it will support a mandatory code covering payment terms for small trucking businesses, the CEO of the Australian Trucking Association Christopher Melham has said. Mr Melham was responding to the ...
Tags: mandatory code, Trucking Association, Christopher Melham
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TWU Gathers On The Retail Front
Mar 22, 2016Coles has been a focus of the TWU’s road transport campaign promoting ‘Safe Rates’. The Transport Workers’ Union has lodged an application at the road safety watchdog to force major retailers to pay transport ...
Tags: TWU, Coles, Safe Rates, Retail front
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Clash Looms Over Pay Between Truck Owners and Drivers
Mar 11, 2016Against: NatRoad Australians should brace themselves for higher prices whilst owner-operator truckers are at risk of losing their livelihood ,if a new Order takes effect next month – with The National Road Transport Association ...
Tags: Natroad, Truck, Clash looms
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ITF Has Launched The Global "Afe Rates and a Safe Industry -We're in, Are You?"
Aug 20, 2014The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) Congress in Sofia, Bulgaria, has launched the global “Safe Rates and a Safe Industry – We’re In, Are you?” campaign for Australian truck drivers in the ...
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Tony Sheldon Said Road Safety Is More Than Red Tape
May 30, 2014File photo. Transport Workers’ Union national secretary Tony Sheldon said a recent court decision relating to the truck crash that killed two Western Australian men in 2011 serves as a reminder that road safety is more than red tape ...
Tags: Road Safety, Red Tape
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Michael Kaine Said Many Petrol Tankers Were Literally 'Mobile Bombs'
Apr 29, 2014A national tribunal is to consider minimum safety standards for Australian petrol tankers, after nationwide research revealed 1 in 4 tanker drivers were pressured to speed and 1 in 2 drivers reported inadequate brake inspections. ...
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There Is One Heavy Vehicle National Law Beginning on Monday 10 February
Feb 12, 2014From Monday 10 February, there is one Heavy Vehicle National Law regulating trucks, buses and other heavy vehicles across most of Australia, with the aim of 'boosting efficiency and productivity in the transport industry.' Under the new ...
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Mrs Broadbent Releases The ATANSW Submission to The Review of The Road Safety System
Jan 23, 2014Coles has been a focus of the TWU's road transport campaign promoting 'Safe Rates'. The Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal is significantly flawed and fails to understand the road transport industry, ATANSW manager Jodie Broadbent said. ...
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The Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal Has Made Its First RSRO
Dec 18, 2013The Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal has made its first road safety remuneration order (RSRO). The agency says the RSRO comes after extensive consultation with interested stakeholders in the road transport industry over the past 12 months. ...
Tags: transportation, safe rates, RSRO
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Tony Sheldon Said Six Deaths in Two Days Was Evidence of The Pressure on Drivers
Nov 25, 2013Transport Workers’ Union (TWU) national secretary Tony Sheldon said six truck crashes and six deaths in two days was evidence of the pressure on drivers to speed or skip rest breaks, to meet unrealistic deadlines. “Road ...
Tags: six, truck-related, death, two days
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Eric Abetz Announced a Review of The Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal
Nov 25, 2013Transport Workers’ Union national secretary Tony Sheldon says the Federal Government’s review of the national Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal showed contempt for families of the 330 people killed in truck-related crashes in ...
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ACCC Has Given Perspective on The Debate Surrounding The Market Share
Nov 1, 2013Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Chairman Rod Sims has given the regulator's perspective on the debate surrounding the market share held by the two major supermarket chains. Mr Sims was speaking at the Australian Food and ...
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Plans Announced by The Coalition Ignore All of The Evidence Collected Over Twenty Years
May 10, 2013Plans announced by the Coalition to review the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal in the event of winning September’s Federal election ignore all of the evidence collected over twenty years showing a direct relationship between pay and ...
Tags: Coalition, Coalition IR Policy
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TWU Has Released What It Calls Alarming Evidence From a Survey of Over 950 Truck Drivers
Apr 12, 2013The Transport Workers’ Union (TWU) has released what it calls alarming new evidence from a survey of more than 950 truck drivers across the country that graphically highlights the pressures in Australia’s most dangerous industry ...
Tags: Chain of Responsibility, TWU
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Woolworths Made Public Commitments to Playing Their Part in Tackling The Lethal Pressures
Jan 18, 2013Photo courtesy of DAF Trucks Australia. One half of the Supermarket duopoly, Woolworths, has made encouraging public commitments to playing their part in tackling the lethal pressures in trucking while the other half, Coles, continues to ...
Tags: DAF Trucks, Australia, transport