Where Are We Going to Find Drivers When the Economy Picks Up?

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Jim Park’s Truck Talk
Volume 1 Number 11

The labour shortage in Canada is bad, and it’s going to get worse — particularly if you’re a trucking company. To make matters worse, the economic downturn we’re experiencing has sent a lot of drivers hunting for greener pastures. Many of them will find satisfying work outside trucking, and they probably won’t come back when things pick up again.

That will pose difficulties for fleets, particularly small ones. On this week’s Truck Talk, we’re talking, once again, to Rick Way, owner of Wayfreight in Guelph Ontario. He’s one small fleet owner who probably won’t have much difficulty at all retaining drivers, or attracting new ones. Find out how Rick’s business partnership philosophy might be a good model for more fleets to follow.

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Jim Park was a CDL driver and owner-operator from 1978 until 1998, when he began his second career as a trucking journalist. During that career transition, he hosted an overnight radio show on a Hamilton, Ontario radio station and later went on to anchor the trucking news in SiriusXM's Road Dog Trucking channel. Jim is a regular contributor to Today's Trucking and Trucknews.com, and produces Focus On and On the Spot test drive videos.


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