Job openings in Alberta’s trucking and logistics industry were lower in 2025 than a year earlier, according to the latest data from Trucking HR Canada.

While demand for workers appeared slightly stronger in Alberta in Q3 compared to other provinces, employment across the sector still fell 8% year over year in Q4 2025, compared to a 1.2% drop across Canada. THRC attributes the slowdown in hiring to cautiousness caused by continued uncertainty in the broader economy.

“These job losses are significant for Alberta’s trucking and logistics industry. On a more positive note, employment of truck drivers remains more stable compared to a year ago,” said Craig Faucette, chief operating officer at THRC, in the news release. “The overall labour market picture for trucking and logistics in Alberta is mixed, but the resilience of the province’s driving workforce is reassuring.”

Alberta also saw an increase in people actively seeking work. An additional 4,000 job seekers entered the province’s trucking and logistics labor market, with the unemployment rate surging from 4.3% Q4 2024 to 8.2% in the same quarter of 2025. However, the overall number of active job seekers in Canada’s logistics and trucking sector declined 3.9% year over year.

Overall, the employment in Alberta’s trucking and logistics sector totaled 98,800 workers in Q4 2025, down from 107,400 in the same quarter of 2024. Across Canada, sector employment declined by just 1.2% over the same period.

Truck driver roles remain relatively stable

The number of transport truck drivers actively seeking work in Alberta nearly doubled in Q4 last year, rising by 1,400 to 2,900. As a result, the unemployment rate among Alberta drivers increased from 2.9% in Q4 2024 to 5.4% a year later.

Nationally, the unemployment rate for truck drivers was up to 4.7% in Q4, compared to 3.9% in the last quarter of 2024, with the number of active job seekers increasing by 17% year over year. 

The province employed 50,400 drivers in Q4 2025, up from 49,600 a year earlier. Nationally, transport truck driver employment fell 4.3% year over year in Q4 2025.

Alberta employers wanted to fill 2,810 transport truck driver positions between July and September last tear, an increase of 225 openings, or 2.7%, compared to Q3 2024. However, job openings for truck drivers across Canada were down 17.5% year over year in the third quarter.