{"id":9380,"date":"2026-03-20T18:58:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T18:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/?p=9380"},"modified":"2026-03-20T18:58:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T18:58:31","slug":"the-human-cost-of-driver-misclassification-and-driver-inc-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/the-human-cost-of-driver-misclassification-and-driver-inc-article\/","title":{"rendered":"The Human Cost of Driver Misclassification and Driver Inc: Article\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jim Park reports in Today\u2019s Trucking how newcomers to Canada looking to take a \u201creliable pathway to the Canadian middle class\u201d through the trucking industry are getting abused and taken advantage of by unscrupulous operators \u201cgetting rich on the backs of misclassified drivers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;These individuals are unable to avail themselves of the protections offered by the Canada Labour Code because they are not employees in the traditional sense, he reports.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe often focus on how the Driver Inc. business model \u2013 company drivers being asked to incorporate and bill the company as independent contractors \u2014 plays hell with the market, but there\u2019s a human side to this too. Driver Inc. chews up and spits out drivers by the boatload \u2014 with apparent impunity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Full&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.trucknews.com\/human-resources\/the-human-cost-of-driver-misclassification\/1003211366\/\">article here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Park reports in Today\u2019s Trucking how newcomers to Canada looking to take a \u201creliable pathway to the Canadian middle class\u201d through the trucking industry are getting abused and taken&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9380","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=9380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9381,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9380\/revisions\/9381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}