The main trucking lobbies in Canada and the United States are warning that vaccine and testing requirements for workers will further disrupt supply chains because there is already a dire shortage of drivers.
Canada will require vaccines for truck drivers starting in January, while the Biden administration has issued rules requiring truck drivers at companies with 100 or more employees to be vaccinated or submit to weekly testing.
It estimates that 10-20%, or between 12,000-22,000 of Canadian truck drivers, and 40%, or some 16,000 of U.S. truck drivers traveling into Canada would be sidelined if the requirement begins. The American Trucking Associations , together with others, is seeking to block U.S. President Joe Biden's vaccine mandate in court.last month blocking the requirements. The court found "all else equal, a 28 year-old trucker spending the bulk of his workday in theThe Justice Department has asked another court to throw out the temporary stay, and a decision could come as soon as mid-December.
In written comments filed with the Labor Department, the ATA said the nation's motor carriers could lose up to 37% of their drivers to "retirements, attrition to smaller carriers and/or conversion to independent contractor owner-operators."Laskowski said there are already 18,000 job vacancies for truck drivers in Canada and he is pushing to delay the Jan. 15 deadline to give companies more time to deal with the situation.
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