Road transport is Australia’s deadliest industry.

It is marked by alarming rates of death, injury and chronic health conditions, wage theft and pressures to work dangerously.

Wealthy clients at the top of supply chains are financially squeezing transport contracts, resulting in an industry that is neither safe nor fair.

Because of an absence of standards, transport companies are forced to undercut each other to win work. That means cutting workers’ pay and conditions and cutting safety corners like truck maintenance, fatigue management and speed limits in order for the business to survive. It results in an industry that is dangerous and transport workers pressured to work harder and longer to make ends meet. Truck crashes are leaving families and communities devastated.

The emergence of gig economy companies like Uber and AmazonFlex further threatens the industry. Under the guise of ‘innovation’ these companies are making exploitation the norm and obliterating the basic rights to minimum pay and conditions that workers rely on.

We must end this crisis.

We’re fighting for a Safe Rates system that will lift standards for all transport workers. We’re fighting to increase pay and conditions right across the industry,  funded by the wealthy retailers, manufacturers and oil companies at the top of the supply chain.

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