After months of investigation, the Toronto Star\u2019s much anticipated feature report on Driver Inc. and truck driver abuse was published on the front page of the features section on Sunday and highlighted on the news outlet\u2019s website and social media.<\/p>\n
The article centred on abuse and harassment of truck drivers by unscrupulous carriers who withhold wages, benefits, vacation pay etc., while misclassifying employee drivers as contractors.<\/p>\n
However, beyond the \u2018abuse\u2019 angle, the article is the most in-depth piece of journalism ever to highlight the \u201cbillion-dollar scam \u2026 known as Driver Inc.\u201d More than any article previously published on the issue, it does an excellent job of explaining the illegalities of the Driver Inc. system in the underground economy and connects the dots between tax avoidance, labour abuse and \u201cshoddy\u201d safety practices.<\/p>\n
Perhaps, most importantly, the article points how some governments and agencies aren\u2019t doing enough to end the practice and mentions CRA in particular. Specifically, the article quotes one alleged Driver Inc. operator who insists he\u2019s by the book because CRA \u201cnever raised any questions\u201d about his business model.<\/p>\n
The author interviewed dozens of trucking companies for the article, including CTA carrier members and CTA staff.<\/p>\n
CTA strongly urges provincial associations and board members to share the article with local MPs, MPPs, government policy contacts in a variety of departments, as well as customers in the supply chain.<\/p>\n
The article can be accessed\u00a0online here<\/a>\u00a0for Toronto Star subscribers. We included a PDF copy for sharing via email here: truckers fight against billion dollar scam-Star_public<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After months of investigation, the Toronto Star\u2019s much anticipated feature report on Driver Inc. and truck driver abuse was published on the front page of the features section on Sunday…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,28,17,62],"tags":[71,1194,31,1429,369,761,2010],"class_list":["post-3267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-admin-tax","category-labour-hr-driver-shortage","category-news-releases","category-operations-safety","tag-compliance","tag-cra","tag-driver-inc","tag-driver-wages","tag-employee","tag-tax","tag-toronto-star"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}