Truck drivers ask for a change in the MP on the direct contracting of services
A MP 1051 / 21, which has already been approved in the Chamber of Deputies and is now in the Senate, caused fear among truck drivers throughout Brazil. The reason is that they fear that their rights will be submitted to cargo contractors in case the MP be approved as is.
As Canal Rural showed, truck drivers are looking for less bureaucracy to dispense with intermediaries when hiring services.
Last Monday, the 30th, at the Commission for Roads and Transport of the Chamber of Deputies Deputies, Diumar Bueno, president of the National Confederation of Self-Employed Transport, highlighted that, when hiring self-employed people, intermediation consumes something around 40% of the freight cost. diumar it also made it clear that the category claims that there is no amnesty for companies that did not comply with the minimum floor in freight after the 2018 strike.
More convenience for truck drivers
Gabriel Valderrama, which is part of the Ministry of Infrastructure, highlighted that with the creation of Electronic Transport Document, which is already in the MP, most of the necessary documents were unified. In this way, the life of truck drivers will be made easier.
He also guaranteed that truck drivers will not be held hostage by shippers, since the forward contract is different from the rights contract: “The administrator of the right can precisely take care of this other part, which is the issuance of invoices, tax collection. Anyway, all this more bureaucratic, more boring part. And I stress that it is independent, it is separate from contracting freight”, He highlighted.
Road transport represents more than 60% of the total of this type of transport in Brazil. Luiz Henrique Bladez, director of the National Association of Users of Cargo Transport, highlighted that there is every interest in the sector in directly hiring truck drivers as an alternative to reduce freight prices.
