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Struggling to find truck drivers?

Spare a thought for those who operate a bus fleet.

Same old, same old

Well, the periodic hand wringing, and doomsday headlines of truck driver shortages have once again raised their head here in Australia.

All of us in the industry have known of this ongoing ‘crisis’ for well over a decade and at least once every six months or so, it attracts mainstream media headlines, usually when there has been some sort of ...

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