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Its the distance travelled on country roads that is the problem.
Statistically, country drivers have more fatalities than those in the cities- something to do with speed, poor roads, poor training, lots of things
Combined with fatigue after a hard 12 hour day, and its seen as dangerous. When I was in the West last year, we stayed inNorseman and got talking to a few miner folk in the pub.
One of them told us that union agitation for an extra payment to workers to allow them to stay overnight after a 12 hour shift was welcomed by the employers, but it was never policed. Most of them pocketed the money and still drove home after the shift.
It was mainly about covering their collective arses, they could say that they provided the means for employees to stay after a shift, if the employees chose to do otherwise, its not their problem.
Mick

<blockquote data-quote="mullokintyre" data-source="post: 1212247" data-attributes="member: 82018">Its the distance travelled on country roads that is the problem.Statistically, country drivers have more fatalities than those in the cities- something to do with speed, poor roads, poor training, lots of thingsCombined with fatigue after a hard 12 hour day, and its seen as dangerous. When I was in the West last year, we stayed inNorseman and got talking to a few miner folk in the pub.One of them told us that union agitation for an extra payment to workers to allow them to stay overnight after a 12 hour shift was welcomed by the employers, but it was never policed. Most of them pocketed the money and still drove home after the shift. It was mainly about covering their collective arses, they could say that they provided the means for employees to stay after a shift, if the employees chose to do otherwise, its not their problem.Mick</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mullokintyre, post: 1212247, member: 82018"] Its the distance travelled on country roads that is the problem. Statistically, country drivers have more fatalities than those in the cities- something to do with speed, poor roads, poor training, lots of things Combined with fatigue after a hard 12 hour day, and its seen as dangerous. When I was in the West last year, we stayed inNorseman and got talking to a few miner folk in the pub. One of them told us that union agitation for an extra payment to workers to allow them to stay overnight after a 12 hour shift was welcomed by the employers, but it was never policed. Most of them pocketed the money and still drove home after the shift. It was mainly about covering their collective arses, they could say that they provided the means for employees to stay after a shift, if the employees chose to do otherwise, its not their problem. Mick [/QUOTE]

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