Safe Rates

Road transport is Australia’s deadliest industry.

It is marked by alarming rates of death, injury and chronic health conditions, wage theft and pressures to work dangerously.

This is because of the squeeze on transport contracts from wealthy clients at the top of supply chains, and the dragging down of standards through the exploitative gig economy.

When transport operators and drivers are squeezed, it puts pressure on them to skip or delay vehicle maintenance and repairs, stay on the road too long, speed and skip rest breaks.

Truck crashes are leaving families and communities devastated.

We must end this crisis.

 

Recently, transport workers won a world-first system to set enforceable standards in transport, including in the transport gig economy. We intend to use these laws to hold wealthy clients to account and lift pay and conditions for all transport workers. At the same time, TWU members are standing together to create a safer, fairer industry.

Sign up now to join the fight.

WATCH: our short documentary on the two-decade campaign to win lifesaving transport reform:

 

 

 

 

All transport workers deserve a fairer and safer industry, regardless of their labels:

Bus drivers

Owner-drivers, retail, general transport

Couriers

Logistics

On-demand

Ports and Wharves

Construction, tippers and concrete

Oil, fuel and gas, mining, cash-in-transit

The problem with Aldi

Hundreds of people are dying on our roads in truck crashes every year. Big companies like Aldi are part of the problem – but they won’t own up to it or change their ways.

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"I worry when my husband is on the road because I know of the dangers. Even if he is driving safely, I know there are other truck drivers who are fatigued and under pressure."

Yvette Mavrothalassitis, wife of truck driver

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Transport workers are fighting for a fairer, safer industry. Join them today and secure your future.

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