Trucking HR Canada has released a new driver training toolkit and will hold a supplementary, free webinar on June 13th to educate employers on how to best use the resource in their workplace.

Alberta Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) is seeking information pertaining to a serious incident investigation with respect to the following details:

Press release: Canada’s third Salute to Women Behind the Wheel took place at Truck World on April 21, bringing together 41 female commercial drivers for the celebration. The group included women of all ages, with years of experience ranging from less than one year to more than 40 years. Their combined experience totaled 600 years, proving that while women drivers may be few in number they are not new to trucking.

CVSA: The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s (CVSA) International Roadcheck will take place June 5-7, 2018. Over that 72-hour period, commercial motor vehicle inspectors in jurisdictions throughout North America will conduct inspections of commercial motor vehicles and drivers. This year’s focus is on hours-of-service compliance.

CTA: The Canadian Trucking Alliance recently wrote the Canadian Council of Motor Transport Administrators (CCMTA) and the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s Region V (Canadian jurisdictions), stressing the importance of graduated education for motor carriers and drivers as the trucking industry transitions to an electronic logging device (ELD) mandate and away from paper logbooks in Canada.

CTA: The Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) and its member associations continue to work with governments across Canada to raise the bar for truck driver training by introducing Mandatory Entry Level Training (MELT) for truck drivers. As the Humboldt tragedy brought nation-wide attention to the issue of commercial driver training, the governments in Western Canada have now joined Ontario in taking leadership along with their partner provincial trucking associations.

CTA representatives appeared two weeks ago before the Committee on National Security and Defense on Bill C-45, the Cannabis Act, to discuss the potential impacts legalizations will have on the Canada-US border.

AMTA Carriers Bison Transport, SLH Transport, Canada Cartage, Rosenau Transport, Westcan Bulk Transport, Arrow Transportation Systems and Caron Transportation Systems were seven of the 52 Carriers named to Trucking HR’s Top Fleet Employers Program for 2018.

Hiway Refrigeration Ltd. of Port Coquitlam British Columbia, announced April 13 it had reached an agreement to acquire Eskimo Refrigeration Ltd. – an AMTA member since 1971 – headquartered in Calgary, Alberta.

CTA: Legalization of marijuana and its impact on the operation of commercial vehicles remains the focus of many national business and trade associations including the Canadian Trucking Alliance, the Railway Association of Canada and the Canadian Urban Transit Association. The three national associations have been jointly raising concerns about the impact of this legislation on their members.

CVSA – Greenbelt, Maryland (April 1, 2018) – Starting today, April 1, 2018, property-carrying commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers operating their vehicle without a required registered electronic logging device (ELD) or a grandfathered automatic on-board recording device (AOBRD) will be placed out of service for 10 hours; passenger-carrying CMV drivers will be placed out of service for 8 hours.

AMTA Carrier Bison Transport earned their eighth straight grand prize winner honour at the Truckload Carriers Association (TCA) annual Fleet Safety Awards in Kissimmee, Fla. March 27.

The AMTA Injury Reduction and Training Department has an Advisory Council opening for one member of industry code 50714 (general trucking), three seats for 50701 (special hauling) and four seats for 57901 (garbage hauling).

Trucking HR Canada: Trucking HR Canada’s 2018 professional development webinar series will focus on practical HR solutions to help employers address key HR challenges. Topics include the legalization of recreational marijuana; mental health in the workplace; coaching and mentoring, and our most popular topic from last year – best practices from Top Fleet Employers.

Transportation Minister Brian Mason was the keynote speaker at a Calgary Chamber Luncheon Feb. 8 at the Hyatt Regency downtown Calgary.

Chris Nash has been appointed the role of President of the Alberta Motor Transport Association effective March 5, 2018.

Chris has more than 30 years’ experience in the transportation industry and is key to a number of committees and initiatives. Chris joined the AMTA Board of Directors in 2016 as the Edmonton Regional Director, and was nominated and elected as Vice-Chairman of the Board in April 2017. He sits on many other committees, and is also a board member with the Canadian Trucking Alliance.

CTA recently submitted comments to Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) on the regulatory framework of the upcoming federal Clean Fuel Standard regulation.

CTA: In September 2016 the Council of Ministers Responsible for Transportation and Highway Safety agreed to establish a new Federal/Provincial/Territorial taskforce to identify areas that would benefit from increased harmonization in the trucking sector.

CTA: The Minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna and the Minister of Finance Bill Morneau released draft legislative proposals for public comment relating to the proposed federal carbon pricing system.

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