Two former truckies, now senators, have teamed up to warn big business against including payment clauses of up to 120 days in transport contacts.
Labor's Glenn Sterle and Nationals John Williams say truck drivers are being left short of cash flow while the survival of small family businesses and medium enterprises is being threatened.
"Can you imagine the anger ... if the consumers rocked into Coles or Woolworths, got their trolley load of groceries and walked through the counter and said `See you in four months (for payment)," Senator Sterle told reporters in Canberra on Thursday.
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