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DRIVERS' SHORTAGE * Canada - Trucking industry starts push to recruit new drivers
... to promote truck driving more as a career and less as just a job as a means of shoring up its shortages ...Vancouver,BC,CAN -The Vancouver Sun, by Derrick Penner -August 7, 2007: -- A big segment of British Columbia's trucking industry wants to promote truck driving more as a career and less as just a job as a means of shoring up its shortages. Among its recommendations, the B.C. Trucking Association wants the industry to promote pre-licensing training standards, develop a network of training centres to deliver the courses and advocate for better financing mechanisms for that training... And the trucking industry has big needs for new drivers, Paul Landry, CEO of the B.C. Trucking Association said, with the highest proportion of workers over age 55 among all Canadian industries... B.C. alone needs 4,500 new truck drivers per year to replace retiring drivers and accommodate new needs... Across the country, the number is 37,300...
* ESL students seek trucking jobs
Toronto,ONT,CAN -Today's Trucking -9 Aug 2007: -- English as a Second Language learners, attending a special program designed to prepare them for trucking careers, are seeking co-op experience inside trucking companies... Some of these individuals have goals of working as truck drivers, mechanics, dispatchers, and safety officers, reports the Ontario Trucking Association... These individuals will have experience speaking English (Intermediate level) and are seeking to enhance their working knowledge of trucking language to help them pass the driver training and driver licensing requirements or to go on to other related forms of higher learning...
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