Canadian trucking

Enforcement of Canada ELD mandate delayed until 2023

An ELD seen inside a truck illustrating an article about Canada's ELD mandate.

Canada’s transportation regulators have agreed to delay enforcement of the federal ELD mandate by an additional six months, until Jan. 1, 2023.

The Canadian Council of Motor Transport Administrators (CCMTA) announced the delay on Monday, saying regulators and the trucking industry need more time.

“Jurisdictions have been monitoring progress and determined that an extension of the transition period is required,” said the CCMTA, which coordinates transportation policy and enforcement among Canada’s...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/enforcement-of-canada-eld-mandate-delayed-until-2023

CEO: Vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers ‘not an issue at all’ for TFI

A truck pulling a trailer of Canadian trucking firm TFI International company Canpar in the United States.

The COVID-19 vaccine mandate for truckers crossing the U.S.-Canada border hasn’t been a problem for Canada’s largest trucking company, TFI International, CEO Alain Bédard told financial analysts on Tuesday. 

“Vaccination at TFI is not an issue at all,” Bédard said while discussing the company’s fourth-quarter financial results. “On the Canadian side, most of our drivers are vaccinated.”

Bédard made the comments less than a month after the Canadian and U.S. governments implemented mandates, on...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ceo-vaccine-mandate-for-cross-border-truckers-not-an-issue-at-all-for-tfi

More trucker convoys roll into Canadian cities

A man talks through the window of a truck while holding a Canadian flag as other protesters crowd around him.

TORONTO — A truck-led convoy rolled into the downtown of Canada’s largest city on Saturday joining multiple protests taking place across the country over COVID-19 vaccine mandates and other health measures.

Truckers blasted their horns as throngs of protesters greeted them and the much larger convoy of passenger vehicles that overwhelmed several blocks of downtown Toronto. Some climbed onto the rigs and a few even danced.

Organizers had hoped the convoy would reach Queens Park, home to the...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/more-trucker-convoys-roll-into-canadian-cities

GoFundMe slams brakes on Freedom Convoy fundraiser

After days of monitoring protests in Ottawa, Ontario over vaccine mandates at the U.S. border, GoFundMe on Friday shut down the Freedom Convoy 2022 fund that had been set up to support truck drivers participating in the demonstration.

“We now have evidence from law enforcement that the previously peaceful demonstration has become an occupation, with police reports of violence and other unlawful activity,” the fundraising platform stated in an alert posted on its website.

“Following a review of...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/gofundme-slams-brakes-on-freedom-convoy-fundraiser

Was the trucking message in Ottawa drowned out by ‘jackass’ protesters?

A truck driver wearing a hat talks to a man holding a protest sign at the Freedom Rally in Ottawa.

OTTAWA, Ontario — Indiana trucker Brian Gregg peered through the windshield of his red and black Kenworth on Monday afternoon with a sneer as he pointed to the Dodge Ram parked in the middle of an intersection. 

The pickup had arrived that morning, long after most of the commercial trucks from the Freedom Convoy poured into the Canadian capital, with a sign mounted in the back in French. Translated it read, “Together and United: Freedom.” Not long after, an ambulance with lights and sirens going...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/was-the-trucking-message-in-ottawa-drowned-out-by-jackass-protesters

Texas’ Arnold Transportation acquired by Canada’s Pride Group Logistics

A tractor-trailer with the logo of Texas trucking company Arnold Transporation Services travels on a road seen from the side

Pride Group Logistics has acquired Texas truckload carrier Arnold Transportation Systems in a deal that dramatically expands the Canadian company’s U.S. presence. 

The acquisition, announced Tuesday, more than doubles the fleet of Mississauga, Ontario-based Pride Group to over 800 trucks. 

“The acquisition of Arnold Transportation Services will allow us to expand our U.S. domestic

transportation offering to new and existing customers,” Aman Johal, vice president of Pride Group, said in a...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/texas-arnold-transportation-acquired-by-canadas-pride-group-logistics

Photo gallery: Exclusive images from Canadian trucker protest in Ottawa

What was it like to be in the middle of last weekend’s protest in Ottawa, as truckers and others descended on Canada’s capital in the “Freedom Convoy” to protest the government’s vaccination mandate? 

FreightWaves reporter Nate Tabak was on the scene and filed the stories below. He also captured several images from street level in a demonstration that had law enforcement agencies on alert.

Trucker convoy rumbles into Canada’s capital carrying COVID and mandate beefs

Florida trucker in Canada...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/photo-gallery-exclusive-images-from-canadian-trucker-protest-in-ottawa

Trucker convoy rumbles into Canada’s capital carrying COVID and mandate beefs

A view from inside a truck as protesters and cars with flags from a convoy make their way through Ottawa.

OTTAWA, Ontario — Cross-border trucker Erik Mueller gazed out from the cab of his Western Star on Saturday as a sea of protesters and pedestrian vehicles descended on Canada’s parliament to protest an array of grievances — including COVID-19 vaccine mandates at the border.

Mueller, an owner-operator based in Alberta, decided to get here ahead of the larger convoys inching their way into the small downtown. As of early Saturday afternoon, it appeared that several hundred trucks had made their way...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/trucker-convoy-rumbles-into-canadas-capital-carrying-covid-and-mandate-beefs

‘Freedom Convoy’ in Canada accesses $1M from once-frozen viral fundraiser

GoFundMe has distributed CA$1 million (US$783,315) to a trucker convoy in Canada protesting COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

Funds for the “Freedom Rally” or “Freedom Convoy” viral campaign — which has raised more than CA$7.3 million — were frozen Tuesday after GoFundMe said it needed to see a plan for how the funds would be disbursed.

Tamara Lich, who set up the Freedom Convoy 2022 campaign on GoFundMe, said funds will be used to reimburse Canadians for gas and food expenses incurred while...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/gofundme-releases-funds-to-canada-freedom-convoy

Florida trucker in Canada convoy: ‘We’re here to join a movement’

A semi truck moves forward as people holding signs and Canadian flags cheer on.

VAUGHAN, Ontario — Florida-based owner-operator DeAndre Mahadeo, like other truckers who rolled past throngs of supporters just outside Toronto, got a rousing send-off on Thursday as he prepared to head to the capital, Ottawa, in a protest against COVID-19 vaccine mandates at the border.

Hundreds of people of all ages called them heroes and even freedom fighters as 15 to 20 trucks and a few hundred passenger vehicles paraded through a mall parking lot in Vaughan. Some handed over boxes of...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/florida-trucker-in-canada-convoy-were-here-to-join-a-movement

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