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W&G aims to raise respect for professional drivers
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Transport & General irkers Union general secre'y Bill Morris is spearheading "high-profile" campaign to se the status of truck drivers. Ron Webb, T&G national cretary for road transport, ys the professional status of ivers needs to be improved ;nificantly, particularly in the esent climate of driver ortages with predictions of irse to come.
Even without these shortes. the "professional kudos" Of drivers needs to be reinforced to both employers and the general public, he adds: "We need to get the message across on status because drivers' terms of employment currently do not match their status as a professional; nor do their hours for that matter. In fact nothing does."
The move comes as the leaders of a project designed to "raise the respect' of drivers and others in the industry say they will be asking for funds from the Road Haulage Modernisation Fund, The project, being driven by a sub-group of the Road Haulage Forum, plans to develop a set of "workforce performance indicators". These will address a range of issues such as training and problems at regional distribution centres,
"We've only just started 011 this and hope that the government will want to be a stakeholder by helping with costs through the modernisation
fund," says John His, the Freight Transport Association's head of training development. His believes that the T&G's driver campaign will "dovetail very nicely" with the forum's project.