Owner Drivers

The TWU has today expressed concern that the application of a de facto carbon tax on fuels for heavy vehicles from July 2014 will further disadvantage truck drivers and cause more deaths on Australian roads.

Making a crust out of driving your own tipper truck has always been difficult but lately it has become nigh on impossible. That's why around 100 tipper operators rolled up for an early morning meeting on June 1 [ … ]

When Coles started home delivery services Linfox was contracted to do the work and drivers were paid TWU rates. Then Coles must have decided to take the transport operation in-house and they now employ the driv [ … ]

Owner-drivers regularly come to the TWU after they have become ensnared in a ‘vicious circle' from which they have been unable to escape without losing heaps of money. Two such people are our members Dennis Mil [ … ]

Did you know that with every ton of our exported iron ore processed by China and other countries there has to be a certain amount of scrap iron added.
Apparently you can't process the ore without the steel addit [ … ]

We lost a real rock-solid unionist in February when owner-driver and trucking stalwart John Black pulled the pin after 41 years in transport.
Health problems including a serious hernia and cataracts in the eyes [ … ]

We knew we were headed for trouble at Specialized Container Transport when the company began talking about reducing their owner-driver rates and not increasing them. But that is exactly what the firm's CEO Brad [ … ]

But trucking boss maintains hard line if you crash into someones car
( Wheel Editor PAUL ASLAN Reports )

K&S Freighters has lost another battle in a federal court in its war with the TWU over its controvers [ … ]