OTTAWA, ON — The Canadian Trucking Human Resources Council (CTHRC) has now officially shutdown operations, and in its place is a new HR resource for the trucking industry.

Trucking HR Canada officially launched yesterday and with it a new series of human resource seminars and services for individual fleets.

“This transition from one organization to the other has gone smoothly, in large part because of the leadership of CTHRC Chairman Gord Peddle,” stressed Trucking HR Canada Chief Executive Officer Angela Splinter. “His passion for the CTHRC’s mandate, coupled with his business savvy and unwavering confidence in our staff’s ability to find a way to move forward, was a key factor in what we have achieved today.”

Trucking HR has spent the last year consulting with various industry stakeholders who helped craft the new organization, and the result, Trucking HR said, is a […] revised focus, direction and streamlined governance structure.”

One of the new tools slated to launch soon is a self-guided online tool known as the HR Circle Check, which “will help industry employers identify and address any gaps in HR practices, and research on communicating with the youngest generation of industry employees.”

But the baby wasn’t thrown out with the bathwater; much of the research done during CTHRC run has been folded into Trucking HR’s new guides and manuals.

The inaugural board of directors consists of Canadian Trucking Alliance President and Chief Executive Officer David Bradley, Private Motor Truck Council of Canada President Bruce Richards, Manitoba Trucking Association Executive Director Bob Dolyniuk, and Mike Millian of Hensall District Cooperative.

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