Thread: 7,000 truckies to go on strike?

Originally Posted by Bulletman;[URL="tel:3096561"

3096561[/URL]]I’m pretty sure it’s not just Toll, I worked for them doing coles and I reckon they would match woolies in the crap department, especially during last years craziness. We were collecting containers direct from the rail which was staying open later than their usual 11pm , and we would take it direct to the stores sometimes arriving at 1am , only to be met with either some sort abuse from the manager because you ring to say you are on the dock or to be met by 1 single staff member usually from somewhere other than the dock and asked to unload the container because they can’t or don’t know how , Usually it was both of these together.

Toll to their credit did pay well for us to do it, but unloading a 48ft double stacked container with some proxy electric pallet jack / reach stacker that was set at snail pace because some coles muppet had run over their foot so OHS set them at slower than walking pace , so it usually took 4+ hours to unload a single container. You might say well that’s not the drivers job, but if you didn’t then there was nothing on the shelves for the punters the next morning, so it was just easier to do it than cop the abuse from joe public when they seen a truck on the dock with a Toll driver sitting in the cab doing nothing.

I could say plenty more , but that would have cost Toll many $$ and coles didn’t seem to care as they couldn’t even supply workers to do what is their job as part of their business, yet they would ring and complain if the truck wasn’t there on time because the train was late or you were waiting for some other poor driver who was on the dock waiting to be unloaded.

Bulletman

Definitely under paid. …similar stories for all other professions too.

Originally Posted by 350RRC;[URL="tel:3096580"

3096580[/URL]]The guys stacking the bread shelves in W at 7 in the morning are the delivery drivers from the bread companies, or delivery 'apprentices'.

Bread companies pay for 'positioning' on the shelves.

Pretty neat arrangement, not.

DL

If they didn’t the loaves would be crooked! OMG!

When I left Tolls, my hourly rate was just over $30/hr and that was without a pay rise the previous year. (2018)
Not sure what the :normal: rate was but it wasnt $30/hr.
Tolls (wow) and linfox (coles) were usually paid well above the average hourly rate, then you add in time n 1/2,double time etc.
Some of the guys regularly exceeded $120000 a year if they put the hours in (12-14hrs p/day,that includes w/end work).
So we were well paid to do sweat bugger all except drive the truck to the shop,get unloaded(wow did that then,not sure now),drive back to the yard and dump the trailer
where ever the yardman wanted it and go get a new job,unless it was morning/afternoon tea time, lunch break,dinner break, bludge break, cuppa break.

DG

Originally Posted by disco gazza;[URL="tel:3096642"

3096642[/URL]]When I left Tolls, my hourly rate was just over $30/hr and that was without a pay rise the previous year. (2018)
Not sure what the :normal: rate was but it wasnt $30/hr.
Tolls (wow) and linfox (coles) were usually paid well above the average hourly rate, then you add in time n 1/2,double time etc.
Some of the guys regularly exceeded $120000 a year if they put the hours in (12-14hrs p/day,that includes w/end work).
So we were well paid to do sweat bugger all except drive the truck to the shop,get unloaded(wow did that then,not sure now),drive back to the yard and dump the trailer
where ever the yardman wanted it and go get a new job,unless it was morning/afternoon tea time, lunch break,dinner break, bludge break, cuppa break.

DG

Well it’s definitely the teachers, nurses, aged care workers, shop assistants, cleaners, removalists, gig economy workers, etc, who should go on strike! Most of whom are paid less by the hour, especially when all the unpaid overtime of most of those gigs is factored in!

Originally Posted by SpudHeadTed

Well it’s definitely the teachers, nurses, aged care workers, shop assistants, cleaners, removalists, gig economy workers, etc, who should go on strike! Most of whom are paid less by the hour, especially when all the unpaid overtime of most of those gigs is factored in!

SWMBO is paid around over $100K as a teacher https://www.education.act.gov.au/__d...-2014-2018.pdf she puts in fairly long hours but that is balanced out by 12 weeks of effective leave. (not all time in all holidays is leave, she is excpected to do some work on holiday stand down)

Regards,
Tote

Originally Posted by Tote

SWMBO is paid around over $100K as a teacher https://www.education.act.gov.au/__d...-2014-2018.pdf she puts in fairly long hours but that is balanced out by 12 weeks of effective leave. (not all time in all holidays is leave, she is excpected to do some work on holiday stand down)

Regards,
Tote

...so you're effectively saying truck drivers are paid enough then?

Teachers are under extreme pressure...
One in three teachers plan to quit, says National Education Union survey | Teaching | The Guardian

Originally Posted by SpudHeadTed

...so you're effectively saying truck drivers are paid enough then?

Teachers are under extreme pressure...
One in three teachers plan to quit, says National Education Union survey | Teaching | The Guardian

Nope, just pointing out what teachers earn, what would you consider a good income ?

Regards,
Tote

Originally Posted by Tote

SWMBO is paid around over $100K as a teacher https://www.education.act.gov.au/__d...-2014-2018.pdf she puts in fairly long hours but that is balanced out by 12 weeks of effective leave. (not all time in all holidays is leave, she is excpected to do some work on holiday stand down)

Regards,
Tote

Originally Posted by disco gazza

When I left Tolls, my hourly rate was just over $30/hr and that was without a pay rise the previous year. (2018)
Not sure what the :normal: rate was but it wasnt $30/hr.
Tolls (wow) and linfox (coles) were usually paid well above the average hourly rate, then you add in time n 1/2,double time etc.
Some of the guys regularly exceeded $120000 a year if they put the hours in (12-14hrs p/day,that includes w/end work).
So we were well paid to do sweat bugger all except drive the truck to the shop,get unloaded(wow did that then,not sure now),drive back to the yard and dump the trailer
where ever the yardman wanted it and go get a new job,unless it was morning/afternoon tea time, lunch break,dinner break, bludge break, cuppa break.

DG

I can see how truckies can earn more than a uni qualified teacher, as they do have a lot of BSc experience........... Behind Steering Column.