Customers pick the cheapest freight option for each direction, which brings down the overall price any one business can economically sustain. Image: jovannig/stock.adobe.com
You can’t get blood out of a stone, so the driver in our lives tells us, yet the industry and society (or customer(s)) seem to expect it.
Generally, the working population can achieve at minimum a 3 per cent CPI wage increase per annum. For transport drivers, that simply doesn’t happen due to the hypocrisies of the Award system.
Common sense tells us that when you change jobs you go to a better paying one, so then in turn the household budget is still manageable and there are no increased stresses on income.
However, the increased cost of living…