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Post A Courier Driver Job Available Here

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Contract Courier Driver Easter Long Weekend

Another 2 days of the year a courier driver or rider cannot earn anything.

What should happen and i think bonds used to do this is if you haven't taken any days off and you have worked at the company for a while you get a 'free day' where they pay you around $160 for that day off. Makes sense and surely it would benefit the company knowing they have reliable drivers and would take out the hassle of constantly hiring new drivers that take a while to get to know the system.

Think the companies cant afford it? Think again the kilometre rate is around 46 cents to the driver and they charge the customers around $1.10 +

Rates and Costs for Victorian Owner Drivers

Find information on your vehicle hourly running costs and pay rates. 1 tonne , 4 tonne right up to prime mover and semi trailer here...
http://www.business.vic.gov.au/BUSVIC/STANDARD//PC_61959.html

Road Emissions Dominate Global Transport Emissions

ScienceDaily (Nov. 28, 2008) — The world’s car park is growing. It has become so big that the impact of emissions from today’s road traffic on the global temperature in 2100 will be six times greater than that from today’s air traffic.

Today’s global road emissions have a strong and long-lasting effect on climate. After 100 years these emissions will lead to a temperature increase that is six times greater than the temperature increase from today’s air transport, according to a new CICERO study. The study includes the effects of all climate-relevant components of the emissions, not only CO2.

“Among the transport sectors, road transport has a strongly dominating temperature effect, both on short and longer terms,” says Jan Fuglestvedt, researcher at CICERO in Oslo, Norway.

Total global emissions

“It is important to underline that the study looks at the effect of the total global emissions, not emissions per passenger kilometer,” says Terje Berntsen, the other researcher behind the study.

The researchers will calculate climate impacts per passenger kilometer in a later study.

The study has investigated how the global emissions from different transport sectors (road, rail, shipping, and aviation) in year 2000 affect the future temperature. While air transport has some strong climate effects that decrease relatively quickly over time, emissions from road transport have a strong and long-lasting effect on climate. The reason is the much larger total fuel consumption and thus higher CO2 emissions from road traffic, while for aviation there is a strong short-term warming by aviation induced contrails and cirrus clouds.

Air transport effects short lasting

“In contrast to road transport, air transport has several strong, but short lasting, effects on the global temperature,” says Fuglestvedt. “But there are large uncertainties in our understanding of these effects. It is important to work towards reducing this uncertainty.”

Current shipping emissions differ from emissions from the road and aviation sectors by having a cooling effect on climate that lasts 30-70 years. This cooling effect results from the very high emissions of SO2 and NOx. However, the warming effect will dominate in the long term because shipping also emits significant amounts of CO2.

Neither international shipping nor international aviation is covered by the Kyoto Protocol today. Ongoing climate negotiations are debating whether one these emissions should be included in a post-Kyoto agreement.

Choice of method important

Understanding the climate impact of transportation requires not only taking into account the total quantity of emissions, but also how emissions of various components interact with one another and the climate. Transportation emits a broad mix of components with very different characteristics with respect to climate impacts. They operate on different timescales and cause both warming and cooling. Aviation emits between 2 and 3 percent of the total human-produced CO2 emissions, but that does not tell the full story. Effects down the cause-effect chain must be considered when we assess the climate impacts of this sector.

Source: Science Daily

Ad Hoc Courier Driver Rates Explained – Part 1

Ad Hoc courier rates are set by the company you work for usually at the minimum ‘requested’ by the industrial relations commission.
The $ 3 - $4 flag fall rate for a standard courier job paid to the driver or rider has never been increased for at least 15 years. Add that to the kilometre rate of around 45 cents per kilometre and you are battling to stay afloat.
Now query the boss on the rates and he or she will tell you that ‘don’t worry about the rates, the hourly minimum (another misty area) will even it all out at the end of the cycle’
Now the hourly or ‘the safety net’ rate set by the industrial relations commission is $26.73 last time i checked. Meaning for every hour worked from your first job allocated to the last job dropped you should receive $26.73 x hours worked. Sound ok doesn’t it? You’ve just put in a 55 hour week 55 times 26.73 = $1470.15 so why didn’t you get it? First of all the safety net is calculated over a 2 month period and ‘tactics’ used by companies to ‘dodge’ the safety net are mischievous to say the least . For example if the company you sub contract to does not inform you of a meal break then by rights they cannot minus any time off for a meal break having said that the industry standard is 30 minutes per day for a break so the company will at least minus the half an hour off your safety net $26.73 assuming you’ve worked the standard 5 day week now the example of 55 hours worked is now 52.5 hours. Now more often than not the company will ‘assume’ you’ve had a 1 hour break per day see where this is leading? your 55 hour week is now being calculated as 50 hours.

Broadband Killed The Bicycle Courier

There was a time not so long ago when tattoos, cut-off shorts and shoulder satchels appeared to rule Sydney's streets.

It was the late 1990s, the dotcom boom was in full swing and hundreds of bicycle couriers roamed the central business district at will, pausing for no man - or red light.

So hectored were pedestrians by wheel-borne urban cowboys that in 2002 the City of Sydney pressured bicycle courier companies to sign an accord, in which they promised to refrain from intimidating or endangering other road users.

Four years on, bicycle couriers have become the endangered species, their numbers dwindling in the face of an ever-greater take-up of high-speed internet, PDF files, digital photography and audio.

Simon McKenzie, from the Sydney Bicycle Messengers Association, estimates that the legion of riders carving up the CBD has shrunk by almost 75 per cent since 2000: "Back then you had more than 10 bicycle courier companies employing close to 250 riders. Now you've got seven businesses and about 70 riders, although the numbers fluctuate throughout the year.

"When the Y2K scare came along, no one wanted to use their computers. Since they got over that, our work has been in steady decline," Mr McKenzie says.

Couriers make marginally less money an hour than they did six years ago, he says, "but back then they could work much longer hours so the difference is a lot bigger than you think".

In the mid-'80s, New York had more than 7000 bicycle couriers. During the dotcom years there were 2500 and now there are barely more than 1000, says Joel Metz, who has a courier business in Portland, Oregon, and helps run the International Federation of Bike Messenger Associations.

Although he believes talk about the death of the bicycle courier may be premature, Mr Metz concedes that business is on the wane: "Whether [the] dent is due primarily to the general downturn of the economy ... or to changing methods of sending information ... I'm sure either point could be argued."

Electronic file transfers will "change what the industry moves, but in the end, we'll adapt and rebound - perhaps not to pre-email heights, but enough".

There will always be deliveries that can be made only in person, says Craig Otis, a courier for more than 17 years who is now with Sydney's Toll Fast.

"Our biggest clients would be legal firms with original documents that need to be signed for, or investment banks or travel agencies sending tickets - wherever you have a document that can't be reproduced there's a need for us," he says.

Business might not be booming, but solidarity among bicycle couriers is as strong as ever. In October Sydney will host more than 500 competitors from dozens of countries at the Cycle Messenger World Championship.

So You Want To Be A Courier..

Being a courier in a Town like Melbourne seems like a good idea right? First thing you will need is a reliable vehicle..any recommendations? Remember you get what you pay for in this world and you will need to consider what you will be delivering. A ute may be good for pallets but the company wont let you take computers for instance. A van will be able to carry computers but most vans can not fit pallets. A tall van probably can fit pallets if it has barn style doors but getting under car parks to get closer to offices etc is sometimes impossible therefore extra work if you have to park further away remember time is money in the transport game.