{"id":3624,"date":"2023-11-10T20:08:19","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T20:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/driver-inc-among-many-pressures-weighing-down-trucking-panel\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T16:41:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:41:56","slug":"driver-inc-among-many-pressures-weighing-down-trucking-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/driver-inc-among-many-pressures-weighing-down-trucking-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver Inc Among \u00a0Many Pressures Weighing Down Trucking: Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Frustrations over the Driver Inc scheme are mounting as a tough freight market has heightened the impact the unfair competition on compliant fleets, industry leaders said at a recent event.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Speaking at the Truckload Carriers Association\u2019s Bridging Border Barriers conference this week, Mark Seymour, CEO of Kriska Transportation Group, said Driver Inc companies are taking advantage of the system through illicit tactics and the \u201cgovernment simply doesn\u2019t want to do anything\u201d about it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Truck News quoted CTA\/OTA president Stephen Laskowski contends Driver Inc. fleets save as much as 30% on labour costs by circumventing certain payroll taxes by illegally classifying company drivers as independent contractors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cOur message is simple to government and to industry,\u201d Truck News quoted him. \u201cThis is clearly illegal, there is no grey area. It\u2019s black-and-white but, unfortunately, we have a government that\u2019s decided not to enforce the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Truck News report that carriers at the event also expressed frustration with a lack of progress in having regulators allow the movement of empty trailers from point to point in the U.S. Repositioning empty trailers has clear environmental and productivity benefits, but lawmakers are stubbornly resisting regulatory changes that would allow this.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we have the option to drop a loaded trailer, grab an empty and go somewhere else, it makes more sense than a driver idling in their truck for five to eight hours while getting live unloaded,\u201d Seymour said. \u201cIt makes no sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

And he said many carriers reposition empties in the U.S. every day without consequence, gaining an advantage over those who follow the rules by the book. The CTA, TCA and ATA are all in favour of modernizing regulations to allow for the repositioning of empty trailers across the border<\/p>\n

Costello vowed: \u201cWe are actively, I promise you, working this issue constantly because it just makes sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

But he said resistance comes from corners within government that feel if the rule is changed for trucking, it will also have to apply to other modes. And if it applies to Canada, it\u2019ll have to be extended to Mexico as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd when that happens, that\u2019s when the labor unions start to get worked up,\u201d he said. \u201cI proposed, let\u2019s do a pilot project just with Canada. Then they come up with another excuse.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier in the day, panellists discussed the immense pressure inflationary costs are having on the industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have to think it can\u2019t be far away,\u201d Seymour said of a thinning of capacity in Canada. \u201cWe are a resilient bunch by nature, but I don\u2019t know how people can stand much more inflationary costs coupled with pressure on price.\u201d<\/p>\n

Laskowski said such pressures are exacerbated by government initiatives \u2013 such as\u00a0<\/span>carbon taxes\u00a0<\/span><\/a>\u2013 that further increase costs for truckers. \u201cOur message from carriers to government is, you need to be aware of that and be cautious in what you\u2019re doing and what kind of costs you\u2019re putting on the carrier community,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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