Thread: 7,000 truckies to go on strike?

Shop assistants should go on strike too.

I've rescued two drivers from the sub continent in my street. One turned into a driveway to late and ended up against the gate wall. Couldn't reverse as the truck had too little weight over the traction wheels and it just spun on the steepish road, he was blocking our cul-de-sac and couldn't get assistance for a couple of hours. I pulled him up the hill with the RRS. The other one tried to reverse up our driveway and couldn't get over the gutter due to wheelspin. I tried to coach him into coming forward up against the parked car and getting more momentum to clear the gutter but he wouldn't listen and kept trying the same thing over and over without success. I eventually found the owner of the parked car and got it moved enough so he could turn.

Maybe we should all boycot Toll and use other transport companies instead until they come to their senses and look after their drivers properly.
There are plenty of other trucking companies that can take up the slack if Toll goes bust and it will send a strong message to any other company that wants to try this penny pinching driver bashing bull****.

Originally Posted by Bulletman

A fair slice of Toll is about to be sold off, Japan post obviously has had enough. It’s likely to be taken over by Global express, and the new CEO of Global express is the former Australia Post CEO who was a good customer of Cartier

Bulletman

I'm sorry, global express is just a little bit too close, and this delivery vehicle is already Toll green as well. Planet Express Ship | Futurama Wiki | Fandom


Regards,
Tote

Originally Posted by trout1105

Maybe we should all boycot Toll and use other transport companies instead until they come to their senses and look after their drivers properly.
There are plenty of other trucking companies that can take up the slack if Toll goes bust and it will send a strong message to any other company that wants to try this penny pinching driver bashing bull****.

How would we do that? It's not like you or I use them directly and most people - including me, wouldn't have a clue on what contracts they have so I could avoid buying certain products, going to certain stores or even what sort of products they move.

Originally Posted by Homestar

How would we do that? It's not like you or I use them directly and most people - including me, wouldn't have a clue on what contracts they have so I could avoid buying certain products, going to certain stores or even what sort of products they move.

I wouldn't have any idea of how to do this but people smarter than us would

IF it gets to the stage where driving a truck for a living becomes an unattractive occupation then there will be a shortage of truckkies and IF this happens we will all suffer because let's face it pretty much everything we use has spent some time in the back of a truck at one time or another.

Having been a Toll employee, I DID enjoy working for them.
But as the years rolled on they progressively got worse and worse as they all wanted there bonuses etc,but we kept our working conditions with very few
modifications.
I,ve heard that they have just recently signed a new contract with WOW for Sydney and Central Coast.
Thankfully I retired couple of years ago, so I dont have to put up with all the crap that the goes with delivering to
woolies stores up there(woolies are just as bad as toll are,especially there warehouses,no wonder they want to go robotic,when they build there new warehouses).

As for the sub-continent drivers,they are paid the same as the permanents or near enough as they are on a kilometre rate(subbies rates) unless that has changed since I last
worked there.

cheers
DG

Originally Posted by trout1105

I wouldn't have any idea of how to do this but people smarter than us would

IF it gets to the stage where driving a truck for a living becomes an unattractive occupation then there will be a shortage of truckkies and IF this happens we will all suffer because let's face it pretty much everything we use has spent some time in the back of a truck at one time or another.

Kinda like for teachers, nurses, aged care workers, shop assistants, cleaners, removalists, gig economy workers, etc? Half the country should go on strike given the cost of living and the mugs we’re all being taken for by the other half.