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Pretoria,South Africa -Times Live, by JANA MARAIS -Jul 3, 2010: -- Trucks came to a standstill at Beitbridge border post this week as the Department of Home Affairs clamped down on foreign drivers of South African-registered vehicles... The Pretoria High Court granted trucking companies an urgent interdict on Thursday morning, forcing officials to grant foreigners access on a tourist visa, as has been standard practice for many years... About 2000 foreigners, out of a total of 15000 to 20000 truck drivers, operate South African-registered vehicles. The department stopped foreigners driving with tourist visas at the beginning of the year. While the law requires work permits, tourist visas have been accepted for as long as 30 years, according to court documents... South African companies involved in cross-border transport employ foreign drivers for a number of reasons. SA drivers are often not keen to spend so much time away from their families, while the neighbouring countries are perceived as dangerous... (Photo from roadtransport/big-lorry-blog: South African truck)Labels: foreign drivers
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STC Brown says it will continue to punish cowboy operators using foreign drivers to break the law...
London,UK -Road Transport, by Chris Tindall -19 May 2010: -- The Senior Traffic Commissioner (STC) says operators using drivers of any nationality who flout the law will continue to be hauled to public inquiries, despite an admission by the Scottish TC that it is powerless to act against foreign drivers... Philip Brown's comments come amid growing anger at the lack of action taken against at least four foreign drivers employed by Kilsyth haulier McLanachan Transport... The company has had its licence suspended, its directors have been warned, one driver disqualified and 12 others suspended. The fleet has also been cut from 28 vehicles to 12 following a five-day public inquiry... However, when concerns were raised by the UK drivers' solicitor that foreign drivers had not been called to public inquiry, TC Joan Aitken was forced to acknowledge the legal loophole... (Photo from images.mirror.co.uk: Lorry drivers)Labels: foreign drivers
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Toronto,ONT,CAN -Today's Trucking -27 Feb 2009: -- ... Still considered a pilot program, the Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) is now named Opportunities Ontario. Like similar programs across the country, its goal is to help companies recruit and sponsor foreign workers to come to Canada in order to work in industries that face serious shortages... It has been expanded to welcome 1,000 applicants -- twice as many as before. But while the government boasts that there's now a broader range of qualifying categories (up from only 20 occupations previously), truck driving still isn't recognized as a "skilled" profession under the program... Ontario only accepts skill types 0, A or B from the National Occupation Classification (NOC), which includes supervisors for construction and transportation -- as well as butchers, bakers, and arts performers -- but not truck drivers...
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Saskatoon,Saskatchewan,Canada -Saskatchewan News Network, by Murray Lyons -December 13, 2007: -- The owner of a Saskatoon area trucking company says it's too easy for other trucking companies to hire away his new immigrant drivers... Jim Clunie of Kelsey Trail Trucking Ltd. in Dundurn, a company specializing in flat deck loads across Canada, says a group of Filipino long-haul truck drivers who arrived at his firm just this spring and summer recently gave notice... Clunie says his understanding is that most of those Filipino workers who handed in their notice in the past month are being hired by Siemens Transportation Group Inc., the parent company of Kindersley Transport and its flat bed sister company, Edge Transportation... Clunie says he's upset enough to investigate if there are legal options to recoup what he says are $13,500 in costs incurred by Kelsey Trail in recruiting each Filipino driver, including air fares, settlement costs and training expenses...
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