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Nov 27, 2007

DRIVER SHORTAGE * Canada - BCTA, gov't, and union join forces to tackle

Surrey,BC,CAN -Today's Trucking -22 Nov 2007: -- The B.C. Trucking Association, in company with Service Canada and Teamsters Canada, has launched the right track BC Trucking Industry Human Resources Strategic Plan... As part of the first strategy, BCTA is actively involved in consultation on establishing improved driver training standards for the province... A recent study, entitled "How is the Skilled Labour Shortage Affecting Vancouver Employers?" by Vertical Bridge Corporate Consulting Inc. indicates that although a cross-section of Vancouver-area employers expects to lose between zero and 30 percent of their employees to attrition over the next five years (5% is the most common estimate), only just over 55 percent indicate that they have a strategy for filling those positions... Two strategies focused on by the BC Trucking Human Resources Planning Committee are improving the image of trucking as a positive, life-long career choice and the recruitment of under-represented populations who are not normally drawn to trucking, including women, youth, aboriginals and career switchers...

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