Trucking HR Canada released a Labour Market Information (LMI) report entitled: The Road Ahead: Addressing Canada’s Trucking and Logistics Industry Labour Shortage – which addresses the ongoing truck driver shortage in Canada.
“Transportation costs can account for up to one-third of a forest products company’s total production costs,” said Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) president and CEO Derek Nighbor. “Efficient and reliable trucking services are essential to our business so it’s important that challenges in Canada’s trucking and logistics industry are well understood and addressed.”
FPAC represents wood, pulp, and paper producers from coast to coast.
“Given that our members ship well over half of their product volume via truck, we support Trucking HR Canada’s work toward a fundamental understanding of the dynamics affecting this portion of the supply chain,” said Nighbor. “Without strong empirical knowledge of Canada’s labour pool and relevant demographic trends, no meaningful progress can be made toward improving the situation for truck drivers and other industry personnel — as well as the Canadian shippers and customers in Canada and around the world who depend on them.”
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