* Canada - Dear Trucking Industry: You don’t pay well, your working environments are unfavorable, there’s a lack of career advancement, and frankly, you’re just not that cool - From talented people who could be working for you
Toronto,ONT,CAN -Today's Trucking, by Jason Rhyno -May 11, 2012: ... That’s the general attitude towards careers in the transportation and logistics (T and L), according to a recent report titled Winning the Talent Race, part of PwC’s Transportation and Logistics 2030 series... There will be over eight billion people living on Earth in 2030, the report states. More people means more production, and that means the transportation and logistics industry will have to keep a lot more goods flowing a hell of a lot faster... It’s 2012 now, and baby boomers are going to start retiring, draining the pool of future transportation and logistics employees. The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals estimates that the U.S. trucking industry will need to hire one million new drivers in the next 15 years just to deal with replacing retirees and the increasing levels of freight... All of these challenges, Ken Evans, U.S. transportation and logistics leader for PwC, explains, are magnified by the industry's negative image. The industry is going to have to update its look and style, if you will, to compete with other sectors. And as far as image goes, there’s also the problem of transparency. While jobs in logistics bring up the bottom on top places to work lists, the transportation industry doesn’t even read on the job-hunting radar...
* New Brunswick - Changes to temp Foreign Worker Program park Atlantic trucks
Dieppe,NB,CAN -Today's Trucking -Aug 7, 2014: -- Truckers in Atlantic Canada are shocked at how quickly they’ve seen the negative effects of the changes made to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) last month... Minister Kenney is phasing out the “low-skilled stream” of the program and long-haul truck drivers are pegged in the low skill/low wage category; a misclassification according to both APTA and the Canadian Trucking Alliance... APTA claims the average wage for a truck driver in New Brunswick is $18.41/hour, above the provincial average of $17.79... Jean-Marc Picard of the Atlantic Provinces Trucking Association (APTA), says some carriers now need to replace their TFWs and there aren’t any new drivers to step up to the plate, so that means more parked trucks...Labels: truckers shortage
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