The Power to Win: Trucking quartette win NTW Program of Year
TORONTO, (June 8, 2005) — If there’s one bugbear that continually perplexes this industry, it’s the driver shortage. All HR-type folk are trying to figure out ways to get people behind their wheels.
A clever team of trucking-industry execs has been honoured for a distinctive and successful way of dealing with the shortage.
The team — Frank Oliviera of Arrow Truck Sales in Mississauga, Stan Morris and Tom Philips of TST Truckload, and Kim Richardson of Caledonia-Ont.- based Kim Richardson Transportation Specialists — are the brains behind the Power To Drive program, which they launched in 2004.
In recognition of the group’s achievements, Ontario’s Minister of Transportation Harinder Takhar presented Arrow, TST and KRTS with the Program of the Year Award for National Transportation Week at a special breakfast ceremony in Toronto today.
Basically, the program attracts new drivers by supplying training, financing and a contract, all in one deal. To date, TST Truckload has hired 16 new owner-operators, accounting for about half of their annual number of new contracts. KRTS trained the new entrants and Arrow Truck Sales supplied the new candidates with reliable late-model equipment.
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