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LIVERPOOL haulage driv have broken the £1100 barrier basic wage rates for 32.5-it ners and also are the first Britain to launch a drivers' id tity card scheme.

In a deal which mainte Liverpool's position at the to the haulage wage league tal the Transport and Gene Workers Union and employ there have agreed a £6 incre, on the 32.5 tonne basic rate £94, £6 on lower grades, an, £104 basic rate for 38-tanners Subsistence rises by 50p £11,50 per occasion, which is maximum permitted as tax f by the Inland Revenue. 1 guaranteed week remains plain time hours, taking the 3 tonne rate to £137.50 and t for 38-tanners to £143.

An interim deal with aroL 14 Liverpool haulage compan agreed earlier this year est. lished a £7.27 supplement 38-tonners.

TGWU organiser B, Robinson told CM the agr, ment was a good one, and s. that it was being used as 1 trigger to introduce the haule drivers' identity cards.

These will be issued to driv whose employers have lock signed agreements at the TGV office in Liverpool, and it planned to issue "HGV drivi embossed cards from Januar) Mr Robinson said he ant pated other areas would foil, suit, but at a later stage. The would be issued to drivi whose employers paid t agreed rate for their area.

Meanwhile, Metropolitan a South-East drivers have agre a £5.50 increase in basic pay £96.50 for 32.5-tonners, a £1 rate for 38-tanners, a new nc hgv rate of £90 and a 50p crease in subsistence to £' Southern drivers have agre their new £96 basic rate.

In the West Midlands, an of of £5.30 has been made to crease the 32.5 tonne rate £95.30, with a 38 tonne rate £97.80, a 5.89 per cent increa on other rates, and 50p subsistence to £11. In this de an extra day's holiday would granted to drivers with 10 yea service and there would be a increase in the 56p fig payment.

But the desert of wage discc remains in the greater part North-West England where t TGWU and United Road Trar port Union have not agreed join in tripartite negotiatio with employers, and talks will conducted again at compa level.

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