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OPINION * Canada - Chief's Three priorities for shaking up transportation industry
The Canadian trucking industry needs a "strong, competitive customer base featuring an efficient, predictable, and reliable supply chain"
Fredericton,NB,USA -Truck News -4 June 2008: -- ... Said the CEO of the Canadian Trucking Alliance who spoke at the 2008 Canadian Transportation Research Forum, in Fredericton, NB... It was the first of three priorities David Bradley offered to the forum, with a talk entitled: Shaking up Canada's Transportation System. "Truckers are in the transportation service business," he said. "With all the issues currently conspiring to alter the volume, trajectory, and mix of freight in North America, capacity of available truck service, and balance of freight to, from, and within Canada, has changed drastically. In some parts of the country, there is too much capacity: in others not enough; it seems"... While the responsibility for creating that customer base rests with the industrial sectors themselves, to improve their competitiveness, and for governments to use the means at their disposal to encourage direct investment in Canada (through reduced business taxes, infrastructure investment, smart borders, etc.), Bradley said that trucking can also play a role, if it is allowed to do so... His second priority would be to remove impediments from the trucking industry's ability to contribute to a strong, competitive customer base... Taxing investment in new equipment, for example, and requiring carriers to take a payload penalty - in order to accommodate fuel efficiency devices on their trucks - makes little sense, he said... By accomplishing the first two priorities, Bradley said conditions would be created that would assist carriers in what is perhaps "their number one priority" - earning a reasonable rate of return on investment... That's what creates jobs and wealth for all...
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