A touch of CASA?
This is going to get interesting. The news articles - HERE – and – THERE outline the huge PR operation with the somewhat dramatic title ‘Rolling Thunder’. It is, despite the drama, a great idea – in principal and needed doing – there are some ‘dodgy’ operators and it is a highly competitive, cut throat game. I just wonder at the overall effectiveness and if the long term results will see any real change. Independent owner operators, mortgaged to the hilt dependent on ‘contract’ with the big users are under constant pressure to keep rolling which is bad enough, but they must also cope with competitive pressure from their contemporary's. It is a very tough game, with many fiscal pressure points, slim rewards and total ‘black letter’ compliance is expensive. Those at the coal face will pay their fines, rectify the defects and keep going until they get trapped again. But what of the ‘root’ cause, what steps have been taken to address those issues, which Senator Sterle amongst others have mentioned? This initiative has addressed the effects, but not the cause.
It reminded me of the CASA approach to ‘problems’, a big, flash splash which seemed to be getting something done, without tackling the radicals. Then I read this:-
"RMS director of compliance Roger Weeks says the operation will rid NSW roads of shonky operators who are giving the trucking industry a bad name."
"We got a really clear message from those responsible companies and those professional truck drivers (in the) industry... telling us that they want us to get rid of the cowboys," Mr Weeks told AAP.
"They want the ratbag element out of their industry because they know it's those folk who are giving their whole industry a bad name, so that's who's in our sights."
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Suddenly; all became clear. Weeks may, during his tenure with CASA, have intimidated and mismanaged air operators, buggered up some fairly important regulations and enforced ‘black letter’ law on a fairly tame, compliant industry – but I wonder how the trucking industry is going to respond to a CASA style putsch being inflicted. CASA may well get away with it, as aviation has long been ruin ragged by ‘the authority’ and “Yes Sir” has long been the standard answer from the inculcated. I’m just not sure how a bunch of truckies, their unions or even their employers are going to react to a touch of CASA.
This is going to get interesting
I shall watch, with interest.
Toot - toot.
This is going to get interesting. The news articles - HERE – and – THERE outline the huge PR operation with the somewhat dramatic title ‘Rolling Thunder’. It is, despite the drama, a great idea – in principal and needed doing – there are some ‘dodgy’ operators and it is a highly competitive, cut throat game. I just wonder at the overall effectiveness and if the long term results will see any real change. Independent owner operators, mortgaged to the hilt dependent on ‘contract’ with the big users are under constant pressure to keep rolling which is bad enough, but they must also cope with competitive pressure from their contemporary's. It is a very tough game, with many fiscal pressure points, slim rewards and total ‘black letter’ compliance is expensive. Those at the coal face will pay their fines, rectify the defects and keep going until they get trapped again. But what of the ‘root’ cause, what steps have been taken to address those issues, which Senator Sterle amongst others have mentioned? This initiative has addressed the effects, but not the cause.
It reminded me of the CASA approach to ‘problems’, a big, flash splash which seemed to be getting something done, without tackling the radicals. Then I read this:-
"RMS director of compliance Roger Weeks says the operation will rid NSW roads of shonky operators who are giving the trucking industry a bad name."
"We got a really clear message from those responsible companies and those professional truck drivers (in the) industry... telling us that they want us to get rid of the cowboys," Mr Weeks told AAP.
"They want the ratbag element out of their industry because they know it's those folk who are giving their whole industry a bad name, so that's who's in our sights."
Suddenly; all became clear. Weeks may, during his tenure with CASA, have intimidated and mismanaged air operators, buggered up some fairly important regulations and enforced ‘black letter’ law on a fairly tame, compliant industry – but I wonder how the trucking industry is going to respond to a CASA style putsch being inflicted. CASA may well get away with it, as aviation has long been ruin ragged by ‘the authority’ and “Yes Sir” has long been the standard answer from the inculcated. I’m just not sure how a bunch of truckies, their unions or even their employers are going to react to a touch of CASA.
This is going to get interesting
I shall watch, with interest.
Toot - toot.