hutpik:
I thought those Days were gone,like 1972 when i got paid 10 bob more on BRS for having a 2 axle trailer rather than a single.
I fail to see why they should be paid more,we didn’t get more when it went up from 12mtrs to 13.5mtrs for trlrs
The idea is (or was) that you are carrying a greater load and therefore doing more valuable work. So if the lengths of trailers double, you ought to be paid double (or even more, considering that the fixed costs may be the same) for carrying twice as much as before (as opposed to the bosses or customers taking all the surplus, and un-paid reductions in hours or mass redundancies ensuing).