US EditionTruck Driver Industry Crackdown Coming in Budget to Target ‘Drivers Inc.’ - National
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The federal government holds on to the "drivers inc." who are driving dangerously on the roads in Quebec. François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Finance and National Revenue, has decided to eliminate the tax loophole allowing these incompetent and poorly framed truck drivers to drive.
Report: industry must rethink driver recruitment strategies
There is a plentiful supply of newly-qualified truck drivers, and one in four of all current HGV Driver CPC holders first acquired the qualification in the last five years. That’s the perhaps counter-intuitive finding of respected transport statistician and logistics consultant Kirsten Tisdale in her latest report for driver agency Blue Arrow: Still Hiring Like it’s 1984? Why Logistics Needs to Rethink Risk, Recruitment and Retention. It challen…
Truck driver industry crackdown coming in budget to target ‘Drivers Inc.’
The federal government is promising to crack down on allegations of widespread fraud in the trucking industry, a phenomenon that has become known as “Driver Inc.” Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu told a House of Commons committee Thursday the government has set aside millions to deal with what experts say is the widespread misclassifying of truck drivers as independent contractors rather than employees to exploit tax and labour law loopholes that benef…
Ottawa decided to remove Denver's tax hoof to put a stop to the low-cost trucking that causes multiple cases of dangerous driving in the heavy transportation industry, in addition to creating unfair competition in the sector. Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne closed the tax loop that until now allowed the existence of the so-called "drivers inc." practice that allows incompetent and poorly framed truckers to drive at a discount. In 20…
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