10 Years Later, Little Improvement for Canadian Truckers
The bad news in the Canadian trucking industry is that things have not changed much for drivers and dispatchers. The good news is that things are not worse.
鈥淚 think the overriding problem still within the industry is that it doesn鈥檛 have well-polished human resources practices. The companies that are doing well and have the dream fleets have focused on human resources as a key component over and above pickup and delivery of goods. They are modern thinkers.鈥
For the full story, see the Sept. 11 print edition of Transport Topics. .
Those are the conclusions of a recently updated study for the Canadian Trucking Human Resources Council.
Attracting and keeping drivers is as simple as good pay and good working conditions, according to Lynda Harvey, director of marketing and communications at CTHRC. However, trucking has not 鈥渃aught up with the idea鈥 of human resources, she said.
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