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Long ride in Australia

15th November 1980
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AUSTRALIA is a place of great distances where large operators take owner-driver hauliers for long rides. Volvo's journal I Roll quotes cases in which subcontractors are being paid less than a quarter of the rate received by the principal.

A sub-contractor called on to make the 1,965-mile journey from Sydney to Darwin was to be paid per tonne hauled. After he had spent a day on about three collections to make a full trailer load, the main contractor loaded the owner-driver's trailer on a piggyback train and gave him "one collection full load to Darwin next day".

This subterfuge allowed the principal a day's free use of the sub-contractor's vehicle for local collections and the unhapm pawn could do nothing about it Australia is rightly called thE land of opportunity.

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