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Statistics Canada
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ECONOMIC WATCH: Transportation, warehousing jobs dip
OTTAWA, Ont. – Canada shed 5,100 transportation and warehousing jobs between November and December, as totals dropped from 1,031,600 to 1,026,500, Statistics Canada reports. But the numbers are essentially unchanged when comparing December 2018 to the same month in 2019,…
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ECONOMIC WATCH: General trucking rates dip
TORONTO, Ont. – Canada’s-hire truck transportation rates dropped 0.4% between the second and third quarters of 2019, but were still 1.8% higher than those seen in the third quarter of 2018, Statistics Canada reports. Rate increases introduced by general freight…
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Transportation, warehousing jobs dipped in April
OTTAWA, Ont. – Employment in Canada’s transportation and warehousing sector dipped slightly to 974,300 people in April, down 2,600 jobs compared to March, Statistics Canada reports. The figure was still up 4.7% over April 2017. The nation’s unemployment rate was…
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Transportation, warehousing wages climbing
OTTAWA, Ont. – Workers in Canada’s transportation and warehousing sector saw weekly earnings rise 2.4% in January when compared to the same month a year ago, Statistics Canada reports. That was still below the average increase of 3.2% recorded by…
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Transportation, warehousing jobs decline
OTTAWA, Ont. — Canada’s transportation and warehousing sector lost 5,900 jobs in January – down 0.6% overall — but still counted 40,700 more jobs than January 2017, Statistics Canada reports. The findings were included in the latest Labor Force Survey,…
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Off-road equipment imports surge
OTTAWA, Ont. – Buyers scrambled to import logging, mining, and construction equipment in December, in a push to beat 2018 emissions regulations for off-road diesel engines and machines, Statistics Canada reports. The imports of such machinery jumped 24.6% on the…
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For-hire motor carriers boost revenues but higher costs cuts into first quarter profits
OTTAWA, Ont. – Canadian trucking companies earned operating revenue of $10.1 billion in the first quarter, up 5.2% from the same quarter a year earlier.
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Motor carrier margins fare better than expected, StatsCan survey shows
OTTAWA, Ont. – Canadian trucking companies did surprisingly well overall in keeping their profit margins intac…
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What does the future of trucking hold?
WINNIPEG, Man. – Predicting the shape of the future is a considerably less than perfect science, littered with predictions so off the mark they are laughable. Consider the famous assertion back in 189…
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StatsCan Reports 2008 Commodity Shipments
OTTAWA, Ont. – Canada’s largest for-hire trucking companies transported 5.6% fewer shipments weighing 1.9% less than the previous year in 2008, according to Statistic Canada’s latest Trucking Commodit…
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Top Canadian carriers’ revenue, expenses steady in Q4
OTTAWA, Ont. — The top for-hire carriers in Canada saw both operating revenue and expenses remain practically…
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Truck driving slips to #2 on list of most common jobs for men
OTTAWA, Ont. — Retail salespersons and sales clerks have usurped truck drivers as having the most common occupatio…
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Costs continue to outpace revenues for nation’s top motor carriers
OTTAWA, Ont. Financial statistics for the nation’s largest carriers (the 97 Canadian-based trucking companies ea…
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Motor carrier revenues drop in second quarter
OTTAWA, Ont. — Canadian motor carrier operating revenues for the second quarter of 2007 dropped 2%, compared to th…
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Both exports and imports rise in November
OTTAWA, Ont. — Canadian merchandise exports increased in November for only the third time in 2007, halting a three…
