{"id":2986,"date":"2020-09-16T18:45:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T18:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/scott-smith-proud-of-effortful-term-as-cta-chair\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T16:44:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:44:39","slug":"scott-smith-proud-of-effortful-term-as-cta-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/scott-smith-proud-of-effortful-term-as-cta-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Smith Proud of Effortful Term as CTA Chair\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scott Smith\u2019s term as chair the Canadian Trucking Alliance has been memorable, lined with unprecedented challenges and triumphs in just two years.<\/p>\n

This week, CTA named its new Chair, Jean Claude Fortin<\/a> of J.E. Fortin, to take over for Scott Smith, whose term has come to end.\u00a0 Following the CTA\u2019s annual general meeting today, Smith took time to reflect upon his effortful stint as head of the Alliance.<\/p>\n

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During that time, the Alliance has shown immeasurable leadership as the industry grappled with two major crises in the Humboldt tragedy and the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, the industry was also facing a myriad of other long-standing issues such as implementation of a national carbon tax, ELD legislation and third-party certification, an increase in non-compliant Driver Inc companies entering the industry, a new binational trade agreement in CUSMA, and demanding labour legislation changes, just to name a few.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs chair of the Ontario Trucking Association from 2004-2006, I got a taste for the role,\u201d said the immediate past CTA Chair. \u201cBut nothing could have prepared me for what was to come with the Humboldt tragedy and the COVID-19 pandemic and the flood of changes that the industry was expected to adapt to in a short period of time. I think that in many of these instances, CTA and our member carriers across the country were asked by governments and the public to step up and work collaboratively and show leadership and guidance. I\u2019m proud to say we answered the call as best as we could.\u201d<\/p>\n

During Smith\u2019s term, CTA was able to achieve dozens of advancements for the sector, including, just to name just a few:<\/p>\n