soundcloud.com/#cbc-edmonton/tr … r-shortage
Some of the report talks of problems which seem similar to the UK.
Carryfast: pay attention to the bit about railfreight.
Can you copy the text to hear as i cant see it.
Anyway where do i sign up?
well I would like to work in Canada but I need at least 4 years experience over here before I can go
is there the equivalent of class two driving jobs in canada ,or is it all class one stuff , wouldn’t mind going myself if there is,
vancouver area
soundcloud.com/cbc-edmonton/tru … r-shortage
Found it there
Soon Canada and the US will enter into a union with Mexico and then there will be 100,000 new drivers willing to work for half the wages although their English won’t be that good as they can only speak fluently in Spanish. 
So the industry has managed fine for years by giving new drivers a start and letting them learn on the job.Then they start adding ‘experience’ bs and now added to that they want to make it a supposedly ‘professional’ job by making it harder to get into instead of just letting evryone get on with it.
Then they want to deal with the issues of being away from home too long by adding satellite tracking,EOBR’s and zb speed limiters and double manning trucks etc etc.Instead of what’s needed in employing more drivers on shorter rotas like 2-3 weeks away and 2-3 weeks home while keeping log books and a good old fashioned,non green party policy,regarding speed and fuel use and fuel pricing policy.
Then added to that they say they want to allow foreign drivers in but of course the Brits don’t get special treatment for immigration purposes in what is our own colony.In which case Asians etc etc have as much,if not more,chance as Brits not forgetting Canada’s bs reverse racist immigration policy which is based on ‘diversity’ quotas.
Then last but not least they come out with bs like rail freight isn’t a growing threat to the long haul trucking industry there just as it is everywhere else. 
Kerbdog:
Soon Canada and the US will enter into a union with Mexico and then there will be 100,000 new drivers willing to work for half the wages although their English won’t be that good as they can only speak fluently in Spanish.
Having said that Spanish will soon be the first language of the USA anyway not proper American English or even Afro American rap type ‘English’. 
Kerbdog:
Soon Canada and the US will enter into a union with Mexico and then there will be 100,000 new drivers willing to work for half the wages although their English won’t be that good as they can only speak fluently in Spanish.
Nope not in Canada they wont.
New rules came in that to apply for residency and citizenship you must be able to read /write /understand English /french.
Even born an bred UK citizens have to do the exams unless you have english o levels and even then some are being made to do the tests. 
and same as uk …well its the law no internal movements to be done ie…Leave Canada --Deliver -in–USA next move has to be back to Canada.
jimmy.
Carryfast:
So the industry has managed fine for years by giving new drivers a start and letting them learn on the job.Then they start adding ‘experience’ bs and now added to that they want to make it a supposedly ‘professional’ job by making it harder to get into instead of just letting evryone get on with it.
?was 2yrs driving experience for last 5yrs anyway.Then they want to deal with the issues of being away from home too long by adding satellite tracking,EOBR’s and zb speed limiters and double manning trucks etc etc instead of employing more drivers on shorter rotas like 2-3 weeks away and 2-3 weeks home while keeping log books and an old fashioned non green party policy regarding speed and fuel use and pricing policy.
Most distance trucks have satellite tracking /qualcom.[/size]lot of people like EOBRs as they run legal. 105kph is law in ontario,queerbec.if you dont run there keep ere lit!Then added to that they say they want to allow foreign drivers in but of course the Brits don’t get special treatment for immigration purposes in what is our own colony.In which case Asians etc etc have as much,if not more,chance as Brits not forgetting Canada’s bs reverse racist immigration policy which is based on ‘diversity’ quotas.
Spot on with this IMO
Then last but not least they come out with bs like rail freight isn’t a growing threat to the long haul trucking industry there just as it is everywhere else.
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JIMBO47:
Kerbdog:
Soon Canada and the US will enter into a union with Mexico and then there will be 100,000 new drivers willing to work for half the wages although their English won’t be that good as they can only speak fluently in Spanish.Nope not in Canada they wont.
New rules came in that to apply for residency and citizenship you must be able to read /write /understand English /french.
Even born an bred UK citizens have to do the exams unless you have english o levels and even then some are being made to do the tests.
and same as uk …well its the law no internal movements to be done ie…Leave Canada --Deliver -in–USA next move has to be back to Canada.
jimmy.
A Mexican truck hauling a load from USA-Canada isn’t internal/cabotage just as a Polish truck hauling a load from UK-Italy isn’t.
While those of us ethnic fluent English speaking ( because it’s our own language remember ) Brits who’ve been refused entry to Canada in the past,while Asians etc etc have been allowed in,know all about Canada’s immigration policy,which is based on a deliberate quota system based on racial diversity not one related to the English language.
sorry im no shouting ■■■■ computer jimmy
Saaamon:
Can you copy the text to hear as i cant see it.Anyway where do i sign up?
Its a sound file of a radio interview which lasts for about 8 minutes.
When the page loads, click on the graph thingy to get it to play.
I take it you mean NAFTA …but i think you will find a Mexican truck taking a load from mexico to Canada when unloaded next load has to leave Canada for Mexico.not run about doing internals.
the same as if i unload a load o grain in N.dakota no way would i even consider picking up a load to say s.dakota …the snap o rubber gloves i do not want to hear…N.dakota you load back to Canada.
JIMBO47:
Carryfast:
So the industry has managed fine for years by giving new drivers a start and letting them learn on the job.Then they start adding ‘experience’ bs and now added to that they want to make it a supposedly ‘professional’ job by making it harder to get into instead of just letting evryone get on with it.
?was 2yrs driving experience for last 5yrs anyway.
That’s what I mean that type of bs has been a long term issue applied by too many employers but it wasn’t always the case.Whereas there was a time when it didn’t matter because new drivers were allowed to just get on with it by learning on the job.Just like my dad was when he was given the keys to a tank transporter during ww2 at the age of 18 and told to get on with it.Now the idiots seem to think that they can deal with a driver shortage by making the job more difficult to get into.
cossienick:
is there the equivalent of class two driving jobs in canada ,or is it all class one stuff , wouldn’t mind going myself if there is,
vancouver area
icbc.com/driver-licensing/ge … d/comm-lic
Still need to obtain a work permit though.
JIMBO47:
I take it you mean NAFTA …but i think you will find a Mexican truck taking a load from mexico to Canada when unloaded next load has to leave Canada .not run about doing internals.
the same as if i unload a load o grain in N.dakota no way would i even consider picking up a load to say s.dakota …the snap o rubber gloves i do not want to hear…N.dakota you load back to Canada.
It’s obvious that a Mexican truck won’t be able to carry out cabotage operations just like east euro ones haven’t been able to here on a large scale basis ( yet ).But Mexican trucks being able to do cross border USA-Canada runs would be able to take out a large proportion of the Canadian-US road transport operations in just the same way as east euro competition has taken out a lot of UK-European work. 
IE a Mexican truck taking a load from USA-Canada and Canada-USA doing international tramping isn’t cabotage.Cabotage means internal runs starting and finishing within the same country.
Big Jon’s dad:
cossienick:
is there the equivalent of class two driving jobs in canada ,or is it all class one stuff , wouldn’t mind going myself if there is,
vancouver areaicbc.com/driver-licensing/ge … d/comm-lic
Still need to obtain a work permit though.
Exactly which effectively means Brits have less chance than those from Asia etc because of Canada’s racial ‘diversity’ quotas which work against ethnic British immigrants.Whereas being British we should be subject to an open door immigration policy in Canada being that it’s basically a British colony.
No it doesnt you (the immigrant)still have to be able to speak ,read, write english and be able to prove it.,which as an ethnic english speaker should be easier to prove than asians /russians etc.
not withstanding that Asian &east indians Companies tend to employ there own kind so to speak.
JIMBO47:
No it doesnt you (the immigrant)still have to be able to speak ,read, write english and be able to prove it.,which as an ethnic english speaker should be easier to prove than asians /russians etc.
not withstanding that Asian &east indians Companies tend to employ there own kind so to speak.
But the fact is the actual Canadian immigration figures and the country’s stated immigration policy,since at least the 1970’s,puts effective quotas on the numbers of Brits allowed in.I don’t think that the language barrier issue is allowed to take precedence over that immigration policy of racial ‘diversity’.In which case it all depends on what is meant by the ‘ability’ to speak,read,and write english.Because you can bet the average immigrant truck driver from the Punjab or Russia won’t speak english like an ethnic Brit.Alvough vey might ave to make a few allowances in ver case of vose of us who’d say vat as efnic which yer can bet ain’t ver way vat ver Chinese,Russians or Indians would say it.
justice.gc.ca/eng/pi/rs/rep- … _8/p3.html
Seriously though,like the home country,it’s obvious that the immigration policy of the colonies is all about cheap labour and lowering terms and conditions amongst the indigenous workforce ( indigenous in this case means ethnic British ) and I’d bet the motivation behind the so called Canadian ‘driver shortage’ is probably all about adding to that situation.The probable result being a joint initiative between the US and Canadian governments to open the floodgates to Mexican trucks and/or yet more immigrant labour from cheap labour countries ‘in order to make up for the shortfall’ in indigenous labour.