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Beware incentive schemes
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STEVE TURNER, national transport secretary of the Transport & General Workers Union (T&G), says pay deals are too often weighted towards bonuses that encourage drivers to break speed limits and ignore rest periods.
He plans to use a pay deal recently agreed with UPS as a springboard for promoting best practice throughout the sector.
"People are being forced into accepting incentive schemes they don't necessarily want to be involved in," he says.
"They get rewarded on the number of drops they do, encouraging them to do more than would be physically possible if you stuck to statutory rest periods and meal breaks and kept within the speed limit.
"We need to challenge that type of wage structure and try to develop minimum standards that create dignity at work, and shift patterns that are conducive to the 21st century."
The two-year UPS deal, negotiated jointly with the United RoadTransport Union, boosts the basic salary of van drivers from £14,967 to £17,000. The basic salary of HGV drivers rises from £19,349 to £25,500.