Business View Oceania | January 2020

57 58 BUSINESS VIEW OCEANIA JANUARY 2020 BUSINESS VIEW OCEANIA JANUARY 2020 BIG ENOUGH TO TRUST SMALL ENOUGH TO CARE www.cjd.com.au | 03 6345 4100 | launceston@cjd.com.au Facebook.com/ cjdequipment Instagram.com/ cjd_equipment Linkedin.com/company/ cjd-equipment Nationwide Coverage CJD has built a reputation as one of the largest and most successful privately owned equipment and truck distributors in Australia, with branches, dealers and service centres located Australia wide. 24/7 Breakdown Service With a modern mobile service fleet, we can offer a 24 hours a day / 7 days a week breakdown and call-out service to all of our customers across Tasmania. CJD EQUIPMENT YOUR PARTNERS IN EXPERIENCE CJD Equipment is Tasmania’s Leading Provider of World Class Kenworth, DAF and FUSO Trucks. Images are for illustration purposes only. Launceston 401 Westbury Road, Launceston, TAS 7250 Hobart 56 Crooked Billet Drive, Bridgewater Hobart, TAS 7030 Burnie 44 Main Road, Wivenhoe Burnie, TAS 7320 PROUDLY SUPPORTING BRIANNA TILT TRAYS & TOWING BR I ANNA T I LT TRAYS & TOWING PTY LTD just recently came into effect in Australia. According to the law, a company can’t engage a subcontractor without checking them out first to make sure they’re doing everything right. For example: if you employed me to do a job and I was working someone 20 hours a day and they fell asleep at the wheel and crashed, then you would be liable because you didn’t make sure that my company was running a proper show and you only used them because they were cheaper. All the bigger companies are worried about making sure that everybody they use has all their safe work systems in place. We used Trucksafe, so people can check us out for accreditation. That tells another business that Brianna has everything in place and we’re safe to use.” Even though Brianna is based in Burnie, they have trucks in Hobart every day. Looking to the future, growth plans would include dedicated depots in other areas for drop off and pick up and then operating in those areas, primarily. And currently on the team, with an opening for another one at the moment. However, finding skilled workers isn’t easy and there is a great deal of training involved for a new hire. Brianna does in-house training for operating a tilt tray, then pays for additional training to get them compliant. Because they do a lot of access equipment, elevated work platform licenses are required. To do machinery for TasRail, they need excavator and loader licenses. To drive tractors on and off at dealerships they need a load and unload ticket. They need forklift tickets; a Marine Identification license for TasPorts; tollways – it takes about four weeks after a new driver is hired to get them up to speed before they’re working on their own. Achieving Trucksafe accreditation is a source of pride for the entire Brianna team. Broomhall explains, “It basically means we’re being independently audited and it gives our customers peace of mind that we’re meeting all the core chain of responsibility codes that