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Acute shortage of 20,500 drivers; Immediate action required to address adverse impacts on Canada’s economy  TORONTO (March 11, 2020) – Trucking HR Canada (THRC) released its newest Labour Market Information (LMI) report today titled The Road Ahead: Addressing Canada’s Trucking and Logistics Industry Labour...
The Canadian Airline Industry is flying into unprecedented skies. Yesterday Canada's Porter Airlines took a $2 Billion CDN gamble as it placed an order for 20 new Embraer 175-E2 Jets at the Farnborough Airshow, adding to a previous order...
Change to the chain? On the verge of a new market cycle. According to a report by Statista, the estimated market size of long-distance freight trucking market in Canada was $26.5 billion USD in 2021. However, the Canadian freight spot market...
–Two Montreal police officers have been infected with COVID-19, a police department spokesman has confirmed to the Montreal Gazette. Another 100 Montreal officers have been placed in quarantine. –Three more cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Ottawa as Ontario added...
The Ontario Trucking Association welcomed the Ontario Ministry of Transportation’s announcement to reopen DriveTest facilities on June 22 and gradually phase-in licence applications and road tests across all locations throughout the summer. All 56 full-time DriveTest centres will reopen on...
September is here and our World has changed drastically from where it was six months ago. The pandemic shutdown our lives in one swoop as everyone was ordered to stay home. I remember in early March being at the Brampton Trucking...
We’ve all been there: finishing a long day at work, tackling your to-do list, and then sitting down to relax, if you have time. Maybe you’re on the road and in the truck for the night, or maybe you’re...
Workers and industry groups across the transportation sector have begun to push back on the federal vaccine mandate, reports Bloomberg. The American Trucking Associations (ATA) questioned the plan to require companies with more than 100 employees to mandate Covid-19 vaccines. In...
Canadian Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan issued the federal government’s strongest statement yet against the trucking industry misclassification scheme known as Driver Inc.  To watch the Minister’s comments please see below: Speaking in the House of Commons, the Minister stated that Driver Inc “deprives...
In a recent article from the Toronto Star, unfair labour practices in Ontario’s trucking industry have cost truck drivers enormous amounts of money in lost wages.  Among other questionable labour practices, the Driver Inc. business model appears to be...