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TRUCKING INDUSTRY NEWS * Canada: Vancouver Port strike
* Ontario - Truckers slam increasing U.S. Border Fees
Toronto,Ontario,CAN-TruckingInfo -June 24, 2014: -- Canadian truckers have blasted a U.S. proposal that would greatly hike some fees at the border... The fleet group, the Canadian Trucking Alliance, says it strongly objects to a proposal from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to substantially raise the Animal Plant and Health Inspection Service fees... According to CTA, the APHIS program exacts a heavy toll on all U.S.-Canada trade. APHIS fees are applied to all trucks crossing the border, regardless of whether the goods being imported are food and agriculture-related or not, or whether the trailer is loaded or empty... Under the plan, transponder fees would increase from $105 to $320 per year, per truck, a 205% increase. Including the $100 CBP portion, the total cost would be $420 per truck. Trucks without a transponder will see an increase from $10.75 to $13.50 per crossing, or 52%... Since there is no thought to gradually introducing the increases over time, it will be next to impossible for motor carriers, who operate under very tight margins, to pass any reasonable portion of the increased costs along to the customer, said CTA in a release...
* British Columbia - Port truck drivers eye another strike in Vancouver
Port of Vancouver,BC,CAN -Land Line, by Charlie Morasch -23 June 2014: -- Port truck drivers that serve Canada’s largest port are again threatening to stop working, while port officials are threatening to remove access for trucking companies that don’t treat drivers fairly... Operations at the Port of Vancouver, B.C. were hampered in March when the truck drivers walked off the job for 28 days. That work stoppage resulted in the crafting of the port’s Joint Action Plan – an agreement stipulating truck driver pay rates... Drayage drivers are concerned that trucking companies are already undercutting the newly agreed upon pay rates... Port Metro Vancouver and the British Columbia Ministry of Transportation jointly launched a whistle-blower hotline that truckers can call or email when companies don’t pay the contractually-bound rates... The Globe and Mail reported that Gavin McGarrigle of Unifor-Vancouver Container Truckers Association estimated about “one-third of trucking companies are not fully complying,” with the Joint Action Plan – which requires pay rates on a round-trip basis... The Port of Vancouver sees about $184 billion in goods annually moved through its container terminals...
* Ontario - Feds update dangerous goods regs, safety marks
Toronto,ONT,CAN -Today's Trucking -Jun 23, 2014: -- Lisa Raitt, federal Minister of Transport, announced new regulations for identifying and labelling dangerous goods transported by truck or rail in Canada... The new rules will be synched with U.S. and United Nations rules for easier cross-border compliance. A harmonized system is better for emergency first responders, too, Raitt said... The new regulations clarify how the danger placard is to be used to identify shipments of certain classes of dangerous goods, such as pool chemicals, propane and acetone, contained in small packages. They also introduce new safety marks to identify organic peroxides, marine pollutants and other dangerous goods transported in limited quantities...
* Ontario - Overhaul of temp. Foreign Worker Program will hurt trucking
Ottawa,ONT,CAN -Today's Trucking -Jun 25, 2014: -- The changes the Canadian government has announced to the Temporary Foreign Work Program will likely mean more parked trucks... Jean-Marc Picard, the Atlantic Provinces Trucking Association (APTA)’s executive director said: “The Conference Board of Canada released a document in 2013 highlighting the driver shortage that we are facing today as well as what to expect in 2020. Up to 33,000 drivers will be needed for our industry by 2020 and you can certainly review that number now because of the Temporary Foreign Program being almost inaccessible” ... Employment Minister, Jason Kenney, told CBC Radio Saturday that he’s phasing out the “low-skilled stream” of the program after having considered shutting it down completely...
* New Scotia - Feds: Here’s $240K to attract women into trucking
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