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  • Owner Driver

    COMMON GROUND

    Mar 12, 2020 4 minutes

    A MONG ALL THE BITTERNESS involved in Australia’s owner-driver ‘minimum rates’ drama a few years ago, a couple of uncontroversial things are easily forgotten. One of them is this: trucking companies, owner-drivers, union reps, bureaucrats and a lot of politicians agree that customers should be forced to pay truckies promptly.

    A Both the Australian Trucking Association (ATA) and Transport Workers Union (TWU) want national rules mandating that customers have to pay owner-operators in 30 days.

    New guidelines from the United Nations’ International Labour Organisation (ILO) back this up.

    “Through national regulation, governments should ensure that non-wage-earning CMV (commercial motor vehicle) driver contracts are transparent and that invoices or claims for payment are paid within 30 days,” says

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