WA Labor Senator Glenn Sterle has sent a hard-hitting ‘please explain’ letter to the peak farming body in response to an “alarming” job advertisement for an MC driver.
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Here’s how to find out if you’re being underpaid
By Matt Whitnall, director, Truck Moves Australia
I talk to a lot of truck drivers and it is clear there are still plenty of dodgy operators in the truck relocation industry who continue to rip off hard-working older drivers.
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Judge hopes sentence serves as a warning to other truck drivers
Melton West truck driver Harley Williams will spend more than a year in prison following the death of a motorist on the Calder Highway near Derby in 2021.
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Essential to pass on costs with ‘more pain ahead’, warns peak trucking body
The trucking sector is bracing itself for more pain with a host of small but collectively significant rises in costs kicking in from Saturday, the National Road Transport Association (NatRoad) warned today.
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From the desk to the open road
Despite working within the transport and logistics space for over two decades, getting in the driver’s seat hadn’t initially crossed the mind of Nicole Phillips, 43.
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Toots Awards: Celebrating Aussie female heavy vehicle drivers
The first ever awards specifically designed to celebrate and showcase the work of Australian female heavy vehicle drivers have been set down to coincide with the establishment of “National Female Truckies Day” on July 5 – the birthdate of Australian female trucking industry icon Toots Holzheimer.
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New AFM tool aims to make it easier for truckies to tailor rest breaks
A new Advanced Fatigue Management (AFM) digital application pack is now in operation in the NHVR Portal to better support the heavy vehicle industry to access safe and tailored fatigue risk management options, said the regulator.
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Veteran truckie fights off carload of assailants in northern NSW town
Peter Dickinson, 68, wasn’t going to let them get his wallet, whatever it took.
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