Passenger Vehicle Transportation Award
Covers the passenger vehicle transportation industry - operators and drivers of motor vehicles, limousines, hire cars, buses, coaches, electric tramways, monorail and light rail. 6 grades shared across two operational sectors (standard vs two-driver), standard rate Grade 3. No apprentices - driving classifications only. Junior rates use 3 age bands (under 19 / 19 / 20).
Fully built. Rates, allowances, penalties and any required apprentice / junior rates are all wired to the rate resolver and have been verified against the consolidated award text and the latest pay guide.
Official Fair Work rates. This award’s minimum pay rates are synced directly from the Fair Work Commission’s Modern Awards Pay Database and updated automatically when the Commission changes them - including the annual wage review - so payroll always uses the current legal minimums without a manual update.
What's built
- All 6 cl. 15.1 grades shared across both sectors, mirrored as 12 classification rate rows.
- Two sectors: standard (cl. 20.1 - early-or-late 115% premium for work before 6am or after 7pm, plus standard weekend / PH penalties) and two_driver (cl. 20.2 - lower weekend / PH percentages but PHs other than Good Friday / Christmas attract an extra 8 hours of ordinary pay).
- Junior rates: under-19 at 70% (replicated across junior_16_and_under, junior_17 and junior_18 rows for resolver compatibility), 19 at 80%, 20 at 100%.
- Sole-charge override (cl. 15.2(b)) - junior aged 18+ in sole charge of a passenger vehicle is paid the adult rate.
- 12 penalty rows including the distinctive 1.15x / 1.25x / 0.50x rate labels.
- Coach / bus single-day charter waiting time at 50% of minimum hourly rate (cl. 13.3) - paid in addition to applicable penalty / loading and excluded from overtime.
Known limitations
No outstanding gaps at this revision - re-verify on the next Fair Work pay-guide release.
Setup & special instructions
- Each driver must be assigned a sector - standard or two_driver - to drive the right penalty / PH regime.
- There is no Mon-Fri 'span' - ordinary hours can be on any day of the week (cl. 13.1(b)). The 115% early-or-late premium replaces the standard span concept.
- Two-driver operations: PHs other than Good Friday and Christmas Day attract an extra 8 hours of ordinary pay; Good Friday and Christmas Day are 125% + extra 8h ordinary.
- • Passenger transport
- • Bus and coach
- • Limousine
- • Light rail
The consolidated award text is the authoritative source. Always confirm specific obligations against the award itself - Mployr's implementation status reflects what we've seeded; it does not replace legal advice.
Want to see this award running on your data?
We can demo a pay run on the passenger vehicle transport award using sample employees in a sandbox tenant - including any of the special-instruction steps above so you can see exactly what your team's day-to-day looks like.
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