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    The cost of low rates

    Oct 12, 2022 4 minutes
    Trevor Warner

    The road transport industry is starting to see some progress in trying to attract new blood to our industry. Above award wages, sign-on bonuses, paid training, and the nationally recognised apprenticeship schemes are popping up in job advertisements.

    Australia isn’t unique with having driver shortages, there are similar issues across the world. Maybe the time has come where we need to grasp the reality that the old school drivers are a dying breed and that the industry must start to focus more on driver retention.

    There is no point enticing new blood into the industry, only to poison them after a short period of time and leave that driver totally disenchanted.

    There are

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