raising similar concerns<\/a> to the Standing Committee on Finance regarding\u00a0dwindling trucking capacity throughout the economy and the\u00a0impact on their members\u2019 operations.<\/p>\n\u201cTrucks move the economy and without more commercial truck drivers, supply chain issues raised by the users of truck transportation will continue and intensify as the North American economy strengthens,\u201d said CTA President Stephen Laskowski.<\/p>\n
Gary Cands, SVP, Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers, raised the issue of rising costs related to truck transportation at a recent Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe cumulative impacts to the entire supply chain that arise from these challenges are not always borne entirely equally. We know that many of our members are seeing cost increases from suppliers in the range of 25% to 30%. They are seeing trucking costs more than double, and fuel surcharges have gone through the roof,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The National Cattle Feeders Association (NFCA) Chair, James Bekkering, also highlighted the issue of the driver shortage:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe international (vaccine) mandate has definitely had an effect. It has taken another portion of the workforce out of what is already an industry with a short supply of truckers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
To address the driver shortage, the Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) is calling on the federal government to support a proposal by Trucking HR Canada that would assist Canadians in dealing with the costs of associated driver training,\u00a0including\u00a0reforms to the\u00a0Temporary Foreign Worker Program which would better protect the labour rights of new entrants into Canada and streamline the application process for these safe and compliant trucking firms, as well as a crackdown on the underground economy in the trucking industry.<\/p>\n
CTA continues to lobby for these changes through various Government of Canada processes including the Supply Chain Summit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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