Last Friday, 205 buses across the state were cancelled or disrupted – above the average of 80 a day in 2022. Qld’s Bus Industry Council said for the situation to improve, SEQ would need 500 new drivers, up to 300 of them in Brisbane. Read more:
“Unfortunately, when you start to blow services out from half-hourly to hourly or whatever, or services are cancelled, it has a real flow-on effect,” Tape said.
He said QBIC wrote to Albanese and Treasurer Jim Chalmers asking for bus and coach drivers to be added to the skilled migration list. He said he was quietly confident the Rail, Tram and Bus Union and the Transport Workers Union would support the push for foreign drivers. QBIC is also negotiating new labor agreements with companies and trying to entice retirees to the role.
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