Drivers at bottom of wages league
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• Truck drivers are faring the worst in this year's pay round, according to a report from pay research unit, Incomes Data Services.
Pay deals in the road transport sector are running well below the rate of inflation, at between 5% and 7%.
Employees at several companies, including bodybuilder Crane Fruehauf and London Carriers International, have agreed to a pay freeze for at least the first three months of this year.
Oil-company drivers are the only sector to have netted much more, at around 11%. Esso drivers won 10.9% on basic rates plus £250 for accepting new forecourt procedures — a package worth 12.6%, The Road Haulage Association's South Eastern region says: "It is a case of either accepting reasonable pay settlements or losing jobs," adding, "it would be wrong to assume drivers are happy."