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Truck World rescheduled to June 4-6

Truck World rescheduled to June 4-6 TORONTO, Ont. – Truck World – the national trade show serving Canada’s trucking industry – is being rescheduled to June 4-6 in the wake of the World Health Organization declaring COVID-19 a global pandemic. The event will still be hosted at the International Centre in Mississauga, Ont., and the corresponding TruckTech fleet maintenance summit is being rescheduled to Friday, June 5. “There is no higher priority than the health and safety of our community, exhibitors, attendees and team members,” said Joe Glionna, president of Newcom Media, which hosts the show. “This decision is being made after consulting with industry suppliers and manufacturers, and they have been overwhelmingly supportive in our decision to change the dates,” he said. “It’s the right thing to do.” Glionna also thanked longtime partners at the International Centre for helping to reschedule the dates, ensuring that exhibitors would still have the same number and pattern of days to load and unload exhibits.
Truck World is a showcase for more than 500 industry suppliers, and draws more than 15,000 trucking industry professionals.
Newcom Media is Canada’s leading publisher of business-to-business magazines, websites, trade shows and events. The family-owned business serves markets as diverse as trucking, transportation and logistics, fashion, meetings and incentives travel, dental, insurance, financial services, waste and recycling, and bridal.

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Mar 12, 2020 - 5 years ago

Canada’s Forest Sector Supports Efforts To Address National Truck Driver Shortage

On March 11, 2020 Trucking HR Canada released a Labour Market Information (LMI) report entitled: The Road Ahead: Addressing Canada’s Trucking and Logistics Industry Labour Shortage. This is a vital step forward in addressing the ongoing truck driver shortage, as it provides a comprehensive look at the challenges facing the trucking and logistics workforce in Canada.
Forest Products Association of Canada (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. 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.
“Transportation costs can account for up to one-third of a forest products company’s total production costs,” noted 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,” he added.

FPAC provides a voice for Canada’s wood, pulp, and paper producers nationally and internationally in government, trade, and environmental affairs. The $73.6-billion-a-year forest products industry represents 12 per cent of Canada’s manufacturing GDP and is one of Canada’s largest employers operating in over 600 communities, providing 230,000 direct jobs, and over 600,000 indirect jobs across the country.

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