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Vidands drivers need £20 more
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HUNDREDS OF East Midlands hauliers are being advised to boost the pay of their artic drivers by more than £20 a week to help ease the industry's chronic shortages of recruits.
The regional joint industrial council (JIC), which negotiates pay for the hire-and-reward sector, says minimum rates for Class 1 drivers should immediately rise from £217.08 to £230 for a 40-hour week with a further increase to £240 no later than August. This represents an overall increase of more than 10%. Other rates of pay are being increased by 4.25%, backdated to 1 January.
Road Haulage Association area manager Tony Weedop says: "This increase recognises the need to steadily improve rates in the industry in advance of the Working Time Directive, and to address the chronic shortage of Class 1 drivers in particular."
Alan Tiplady, senior regional organiser for the Transport & General Workers Union, says negotiating a deal is notoriously difficult because rates vary so much across the region: "The East Coast and Lincolnshire traditionally have much lower rates than Nottingham and Derby and they would be much lower than in Northampton."
But Chris Pettitt, MD of CI Pettitt Transport in Boston. Lincolnshire, says that feedback from his drivers suggests £240 for a 40-hour week is already common.
The .TIC will meet again in September to review final WTD regulations,butTiplady says there will be no further pay increases this year.