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TRUCKING INDUSTRY * USA & Canada
* Canada - Trucking companies score 50 Best Managed awards
Toronto,ONT,CAN -Today's Trucking -17 Feb 2010: ... Trucking is very well represented once again on the prestigious list of Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies... Seven national for-hire carriers, plus a well-know logistics provider made the Platinum Club, which salutes companies who have won the Best Managed award for at least six consecutive years... Armour Transportation Systems achieved Platinum Club member status, along with Bison Transport, Challenger Motor Freight, Kriska Holdings, MacKinnon Transport, M-O Freightworks, MSM Transportation, Quik X Transportation, and the Yanke Group of Companies... Also making the Platinum category was the Wheels Group, a third party logistics firm and Shaw Communications, which has a division dedicated in in-cab dispatch and communications solutions to the trucking industry... Meanwhile, winning the award for the first time are United Van Lines Canada, as well as Kemptville Truck Centre, which sells International brand commercial trucks; and Wakefield Canada, a heavy-duty and automotive aftermarket supplier... Returning to the list are the Day & Ross Transportation Group, TransX Group of Companies, and Cummins Western Canada... (Image from macktrucks: Mack AXBack Sand) 
* USA - Labor enforcers scrutinize 'independent' workers, truckers
Washington,DC,USA -Today's Trucking (CAN) -18 Feb 2010: -- The Obama administration plans to crack down on companies that blur the lines between employees as independent contractors, including owner-operators in the trucking industry... According to a report today from the N.Y. Times, President Obama's 2010 budget estimates that such measures would yield at least $7 billion over 10 years... The administration will hire 100 more enforcement personnel and the IRS has begun auditing 6,000 companies... The Labor Department estimates that up to 30 percent of companies misclassify employees, many of which are in the trucking or construction industries... In many of these cases, companies treat independent contractors the same as payroll employees, who perform many of the same functions. Both types of workers are frequently given similar instructions and duties and have access to the same equipment and facilities... Although, according to the Times, White House and state officials deny they are doing it as a favor to the unions.
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