TORONTO — All indicators seem to show that over the next few months, the trucking industry is headed one way: Up.

A GE Capital survey of trucking companies with revenues ranging from $1-million to $1-billion found that a majority of truckers increased their revenues over the past year, added jobs and expect more growth in 2015. 

In a remarkably candid take on where the economy’s headed, a Managing Director of the National Bank of Canada Stefane Maron told the Atlantic Provinces Trucking Association (APTA) that as of September, the U.S. economy is officially in “expansion mode” and it’s taking Canada right along with it.

“We’re looking at 3.6 percent growth in Canada,” he said. Canada will also, he predicted, get an economic jolt in the lead up to the next Federal Election.